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Linux Flourishes In 200-Year-Old Gold Markets

Posted by timothy on from the neal-stephenson-themes-everyhere dept.

tbarkerload writes "H-Online [a spin off of a major German daily] reports on a gold trader managing over 15 tonnes of gold, worth $660m, with a platform built on open source tech. BullionVault operates a 24-7 electronic market in gold bullion open to both retail and professional traders. Their systems handle thousands of daily transactions from both human traders and bots operating through their API. If Linux has reached the world of hundred year old assaying firms, and Swiss vaults buried in mountains, can final world domination be too far away?"

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  1. Re:how much? by Hucko · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    I won't. Gnome is even more limiting in practice than Windows.

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