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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. Surprised? It's M$ crapware! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    They should have seen this coming when they signed the deal to buy M$ crapware...

  2. 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?

    1. Re:How many failures before.. by 0ld_d0g · · Score: -1, Troll

      nice whoring for linux. slashdot is proud. it uses linux for some stupid ftp server. who cares?

      nobody is going to trust toy OS linux for anything mission critical. aix,solaris are miles ahead. miles.

      ofcource server is the only place where linux can even offer something. mostly because its free. cheap web hosts like to cut costs. on the desktop its a joke. 10 years.. 1 billion invested, 0.83% market share. lol even when MAJOR companies like IBM backing it, nobody gives a shit about linux.

  3. 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.

  4. Re:Still don't know why... by gmuslera · · Score: -1, Troll

    Im betting that it was a PEBKAC, specially the one that picked MS .NET for such critical app.

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

    sigh... .Net is pants.

    Better?

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  6. 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?

  7. Windows is not for mission critical stuff... by jopsen · · Score: -1, Troll

    Agreed. It's a bit of flame-bait mentioning them in the summary...

    If there's a bit of flame-bait in the summary it's probably because you should NOT use windows for mission critical stuff...

    That's usually a job for Linux and UNIX systems... Then it really doesn't matter if it was a windows bug, a software bug, network bug or just a power outage... If you system runs windows and it dies, really a flame-bait in the summary is appropriate... especially on slashdot :)

  8. 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.

  9. Re:What, no ads? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    They should have chosen Ubuntu. All the wankers know it's teh best.

  10. 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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