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Linux Flourishes In 200-Year-Old Gold Markets
tbarkerload writes "H-Online [a spin off of a major German daily] reports on a gold trader managing over 15 tonnes of gold, worth $660m, with a platform built on open source tech. BullionVault operates a 24-7 electronic market in gold bullion open to both retail and professional traders. Their systems handle thousands of daily transactions from both human traders and bots operating through their API. If Linux has reached the world of hundred year old assaying firms, and Swiss vaults buried in mountains, can final world domination be too far away?"
Just that no one really noticed.
What more evidence than M$FT laying off code monkeys do you need? It's all downhill from here. Hang on, it's gonna be one heck of a ride.
In Liberty, Rene
I'm not sure what you're getting at... Linux servers are already in nearly every house, all be it as routers and using an embedded form of Linux. It seems that people are slowly moving toward Linux as the backbone for their housing.
I have no less than 4 Linux devices/computers in my house, most people will have at least 1 or 2. The whole desktop thing will be a natural progression once people realise Vista SE, I mean 7, has fallen flat on it's face.
Backbone still isn't equal to desktop. I'll be impressed when Open Office is as ubiquitous as Microsoft office, and Gnome has replaced Windows 7.
SJW: a person who perceives an injustice, and while correcting it, commits a greater injustice.
But with linux (and I'd guess solaris) its easy to let apply just security updates without risking functionality, in fact very few distros would even try and give functionality updates to an installed system, the same can't be said of windows.
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