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London Stock Exchange To Abandon Windows
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 ...'"
See my subject-line above, first... tia! I wasn't being rude to he, I was actually trying to be humorous actually (So, sorry if you took it that way - I was just being 'sarcastic' when I said "yea, what good are facts" etc. et al is all, in my reply response).
"GP was being rude about Slashdot people who moderate down anything they disagree with regardless of facts, he was approving your post." - by Kupfernigk (1190345) on Friday July 03, @11:13AM (#28571963)
Lot of THAT going on, no doubt about it!
(I just went thru something of THAT nature here, where a guy named "Americano" (member here) has been trolling me for WEEKS under various guises & 'down-modding' my posts (when he & I had a MacOS X vs. Windows type debate, on security mostly) + even impersonating me on these forums (which he ended up being called a troll + getting "down-modded" by others in that thread for it) -> http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1287729&cid=28539111
In that URL? He went to EVERY post I made there, & down-modded it, first... that changed, read on:
In the end though, the parent poster, Freedom_India, actually expended a LOT of his own mod points (or I suspect it was he) & he upward modded that post from -1 "off topic", which he even agreed my 1st post clearly was not off topic, & the rest of them also, once "Americano" wasted all of his mod points, in downmods of my posts - so he could not turn around & down mod them once more!
1st time ANYONE here has been that nice/kind (whatever you would like to call it I suppose) to me here in fact... goes to show you that others do help others when they're getting abused/threatened (which Americano did threaten he would mod down all my posts as much as he could no less & he was caught in that too) here. I was pleasantly surprised & thankful in fact.
So, yes - I know how THAT works, unfortunately... only TOO well @ times, & that url's an example thereof.
APK
P.S.=>
"What is the application layer for the NASDAQ system? I don't see that referenced in any of the articles? Is it .NET code or something else like C++?
Am I right in thinking that one simple factor in the performance difference would be that the LSEX system ran on SQL Server 2000 rather than 2005?" - by Kupfernigk (1190345) on Friday July 03, @11:13AM (#28571963)
Great question: Unfortunately, I don't have the answer as to those specifics, & it MIGHT be possible that SQLServer 2005 makes much of the difference, but I like the fact they used clustering (failovers), to promote stability, mainly... seems to be working for the folks @ NASDAQ! apk
You know that little comic is kinda cute and all but when I read a response, like yours, to someone using the moniker 'M$' for Microsoft I instantly think wow here is a 'M$ fanboi'. Beside the parent said 'MS' and you *still* got offended.
First of all I don't want to type Microsoft all the time and MS is accepted shorthand for Multiple Sclerosis, ms is for millisecond, Ms is for referring to women. So why don't you tell me what is an accepted short term for Microsoft and convince everyone to use it in a politically correct way that will not offend you?
Then tell me why should I have to type a string of extra character throughout a post as to not invoke your sense of outrage to invoking what, for years now, has been an accepted shorthand for Microsoft. I got three words:
Get over it.
Here is some news for you, Microsoft don't care. Everyone knows the fastest way to really rub a Microsoft fanboi up the wrong way is to refer to Microsoft as M$, especially long time, old skool smug bearded Unix guys like myself. If it bothers you that people say M$ it's because it reminds us all what M$ is all about. If you are offended then it's probably designed to offend you, because no-one else cares. Frankly I think the moniker is a work of genius, whoever referred to Microsoft as M$ first should be given a percentage of all the insightful mod points ever used in any discussion about M$, except it probably predates the web, $lashdot and O$$.
M$ M$ M$ M$
See M$ stockprices are the same, Bill and Melinda are doing whatever they are doing, Ballmer didn't even care. No one cares.
Only you care, you're the only one offended.
My ism, it's full of beliefs.
; )