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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 ...'"
And even with all those problems they are faster and more stable than the LSE trade elect system!
Amazing!
The LSE system jointly developed by MS and Accenture must really be bad if the systems you and the poster above you have those problems and still run circle's around the LSE!
Just about everyone below 'C' level executives in IT already know not to hire Accenture, I guess we should add never use Microsoft to do your coding to that rule.
Even 30 Year old mainframe systems I've worked on have hiccups, but they are simple and easy to recover. There aren't a lot of 'moving parts' in most mainframe based systems and the hardware is extremely reliable. I can't imagine when .NET or J2EE will match that.
It seems almost impossible for large corporations to have a simple J2EE or .NET implementation. They seem to attract bloat like the underside of the couch attracts dust-balls. No wonder good developers in those disciplines are called 'gurus'. They would have to have the aesthetics extreme discipline of a Zen monk to fore go the bloat and wasteful design decisions and keep everything clean and simple.
At work I have daily problems with Windows. And the worst part is that when it has a problem Windows is a mystery to what happened a lot of the time. Some cryptic message in the event log that means nothing. I have had much better luck keeping linux systems up and stable. Microsoft is easier to use and has more applications, but I would never use it to keep something mission critical running.
M$!
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