London Stock Exchange To Abandon Windows

Posted by timothy on Friday July 3, 2009 @01:24AM 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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Re: Correct, Manager's Fault For Choosing Windows by TheThiefMaster · 2009-07-03 20:52 · Score: 0, Redundant

And my closing comment is "The OS is irrelevant here, except to fanboys of either side."
Judging from THIS, you clearly fall under that. What are you, nine years old?