The London Stock Exchange Goes Down For Whole Day

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."

Comments

That's some strange math...

[porkmusket]

Since when is 7 hours even close to "a whole day"? Maybe you meant "almost a whole business day"?

Suckers

[overtly_demure]

Everybody always gladly buys the MS line. It's some kind of permanent institutionalized suspension of disbelief.

To paraphrase what they used to say back in the day about IBM, nobody ever got fired for buying into Microsoft.

Uhhh, what?

[6164n3rd]

Why is Microsoft getting dragged into this discussion? There's no mention of them in the main article, nor in the itworld.com article linked above. And yet this story gets tagged with "microsoft" and given the Bill/Borg icon just because TradElect uses .NET? I'll admit Microsoft has it's share of issues, but let's reserve credit/blame for when it's actually due.

Re:You have your causes and effects reversed.

[dedazo]

Is it the same software? It could be the software then, not necessarily the platform.

I mean, you can fsck up an application on any language and platform. I wouldn't be posting here arguing about this if I didn't write those types of systems for a living (well, used to).