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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. How many failures before.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    ..people realise that Microsoft products just aren't suitable for mission critical stuff.
    And why wasn't there a backup system?

  2. Re:Good lord, they're running on Windows? Why? by DarkVader · · Score: 0, Troll

    No, it's not "quite as bad".

    It's worse. With those old ones, it's far, far worse.

  3. Re:you're doing it wrong by chill · · Score: 0, Troll

    sigh... .Net is pants.

    Better?

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  4. Re:Reminds me of that day... by PenGun · · Score: 0, Troll

    Your big stick is useless. Your economy is toast. You are going down.

      Now tell me again about McCain?

  5. Re:Uhhh, what? by RightSaidFred99 · · Score: 0, Troll

    Because this is slashdot. It's hilarious reading these posts, it's moron after moron jumping in with ridiculous slams on MS (sorry... "M$") based on some incident whose facts they are blithely unaware. It's almost kind of sad how stupid they all look.

  6. Re:You have your causes and effects reversed. by jcr · · Score: 0, Troll

    You based your entire rant on this baseless, meaningless statement and treated it as a fact. It's not a fact. You can't prove it as a fact.

    You're kidding, right? You seriously are staking out the position that Windows doesn't suck?

    -jcr

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