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London Stock Exchange To Abandon Windows

Posted by timothy on from the don't-weld-shut-the-doors-then dept.

BBCWatcher writes "Computerworld's Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols reports that the London Stock Exchange is abandoning its Microsoft Windows-based trading platform: 'Anyone who was ever fool enough to believe that Microsoft software was good enough to be used for a mission-critical operation had their face slapped this September when the LSE's Windows-based TradElect system brought the market to a standstill for almost an entire day .... Sources at the LSE tell me to this day that the problem was with TradElect ...'"

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  1. Let me be the first to say... by AltGrendel · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...Huzzah!

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    1. Re:Let me be the first to say... by node+3 · · Score: 5, Funny

      MS used to run lots of ads, including banner ads on slashdot, about how the london stock exchange chose windows over linux... Those ads stopped very quickly when they had the big outage a few months ago

      Ah, so the MS ad servers were running Windows too?

  2. Thanks. by bezking · · Score: 3, Funny

    "Anyone who was ever fool enough to believe that Microsoft software was good enough to be used for a mission-critical operation"


    This just made my day. Now i can go back to bed.

    Thanks!

  3. Re:Not Windows' fault by sys.stdout.write · · Score: 4, Funny

    This could easily have been the other way around, ditching Linux and a shit piece of trades software for Windows and a good bit of trades software

    Yeah, but then it wouldn't have made Slashdot!

  4. Re:Two years worth of use by jcr · · Score: 4, Funny

    We've got a contract with Accenture at work

    What company is that? I want to short your stock.

    -jcr

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  5. Exchange Server by KraftDinner · · Score: 5, Funny

    I never understood why Microsoft made a specific server for stock exchanges anyways. It sure does e-mail great though.

  6. MOD PARENT DOWN!!!!! by gazbo · · Score: 5, Funny

    Mere facts backed up by references are nothing compared to what you want to believe - silence him!

  7. I for one... by MrKaos · · Score: 4, Funny

    Welcome our smug, bearded, Unix liking overloads.

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  8. Fun game by Mateo_LeFou · · Score: 3, Funny

    google for "London Stock Exchange site:microsoft.com" and fiddle around a bit looking at current vs. cached pages.

    I bet if you interviewed Ballmer, he'd say something like "London has a Stock Exchane?!? I sure as fsck never heard of it"

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  9. had to... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    It's not Windows vs Linux.

    No, it's Microsoft vs Linux.

    No, it's Microsoft vs GNU/Linux.