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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. 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.

  2. 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!

  3. 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?