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The London Stock Exchange Goes Down For Whole Day

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the at-least-no-one-died-...-yet dept.

Colin Smith writes "TradElect, the Microsoft .Net based trading platform for the London Stock Exchange, was offline for about seven hours, meaning that their 5-nines SLAs are shot for approximately the next 100 years. The TradElect system was launched back in June of 2007 and was designed for increased speed and system capacity."

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  1. Good lord, they're running on Windows? Why? by echtertyp · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    That's just nuts. I don't understand the rationale for that at all, in this day and age.

  2. Re:Misleading summary by RightSaidFred99 · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    What utter bullshit. There are lots of mission critical business systems running on Windows and .NET. You just don't know what you're talking about, that's all.

    One incident with unknown causes (I didn't see anything in the article about .NET or even Windows) used as a laughable excuse to "rock on" windows is a little silly.

  3. Quick! get the VAX! by Nation+XII · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    AHeehehahahahahaa! Microlimp's operating system will never be "Enterprise Ready". They should have stayed running on OpenVMS and continued to enjoy flawless 10+years of uptime, instead of this pathetic "five-9's". VMS on any platform FTW!

  4. Re:Oh, my. by corbettw · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I love that your comment is now modded +5 Funny. Definitely says something about the overall cynicism of Slashdotters.

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  5. Re:Using Microsoft for a 5-nines SLA? Is that a jo by XDirtypunkX · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Well, I have to laugh at your ignorance of .NET. It's perfectly suitable for a 5-nine SLA; pick on Windows or pick on the hardware they chose, but .NET as a development platform for a heavy transaction server is perfectly fine and better than picking a dynamically typed scripting language, the buggy abomination which is Java or the error prone C++.