London Stock Exchange Rejects .NET For Open Source

ChiefMonkeyGrinder writes "This summer, the London Stock Exchange decided to move away from its Microsoft .Net-based trading platform, TradElect. Instead, they'll be using the GNU/Linux-based MillenniumIT system. The switch is a pretty savage indictment of the costs of a complex .Net system. The GNU/Linux-based software is also faster, and offers several other major benefits. The details provide some fascinating insights into the world of very high performance — and very expensive — enterprise systems. ... [R]ather than being just any old deal that Microsoft happened to lose, this really is something of a total rout, and in an extremely demanding and high-profile sector. Enterprise wins for GNU/Linux don't come much better than this."

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Re:Awesome.

[spun]

Sure, skip the fountain, head down to Mike's Marbleopolis, and pick up a marble column. You could buy this one. Or that one. Or this one. (It's from a recurring series of SNL skits starring Scarlett Johansson.)

Re:Awesome.

[spun]

It's from the SNL skits featuring Scarlett Johansson. They are a spoof of cheap late night commercials for family run businesses, with Scarlett as the daughter, Lexi, who has a 'deer-in the-headlights, God I hope I get through this without screwing up' look on her face the entire time she's pointing to the pictures of columns or fountains or whatever and saying, woodenly, "You could buy this one. Or that one. Or this one.

I found them hilarious. I think others must have too, because googling 'marble columns' or 'porcelain fountains' returns the skits as the top hits.

Re:Awesome.

[Anonymous Coward]

Posting anonymous because I'm probably going to get beaten with a stick because of this opinion, but atleast it'll be more on-topic as the parent, so here goes

What's with the anal retentive GNU/Linux all the time. Just call in linux already. With a GNU/Linux name, linux never is going to get any popularity. Yeah yeah, I know, linux officially just denotes the kernel etc., but really, no-one cares. It's an image thing. How many people do you hear saying that they have "microsoft windows ixpee" on their computer? That's right. None. They just state that they've got "XP", or "Vista", or "Mac" / "Apple"
So what's with all the nerds in the *nix zone being so anal about this? On one hand everybody's whining about wanting to get linux on more desktops, and whining about how they hate Microsoft that much. Don't get me wrong, I really hate Microsoft, yet working with Vista x64 here since that's the only OS nowadays that'll run a decent CAD suite, and I got to give it to 'em, they actually probably have some ergonomists on the site, because their stuff generally is just logical on the user level. A whole different story obviously on the maintenance level, but that's not what most people see, certainly not your aunt Jill

If the linux/unix group really wants their os to succeed on the desktop, they really need to hoe down on their image, because really, it's absurdly nerdy the way it is now. This also goes for program naming schemes. GnuGPG? Really? That's the best you could come up with?

Also... the amount of distributions. How many fucking distros do you need. Start explaining that to a new linux user. Just take a look at this wikipedia page listing the linux distributions. Are you for real?? How much can they differ? Just make a distribution already that you can easily change on install, like, using an installer like ohw I don't know, Anaconda perhaps? Ohw shoot, that distro already exists.

Yeah, I'm pissed off.
I'm pissed off because I know linux really could get somewhere and take over the market, if only those selfrighteous nerds could only get their heads out of their own arses long enough to actually cooperate and create something useful. Hell, atleast one should have a friend taking ergonomics classes? Perhaps ask him to work together on GUIs to make them actually... you know, work.

Re:Awesome.

[ciderVisor]

Point Percy at the porcelain.

Re:Awesome.

[gbjbaanb]

Might I not suggest teak. whilst I agree its a beautiful wood, its also somewhat dodgy to come by. From the Independant:

TEAK

ORIGIN: Burma and Africa

USES: Construction and furniture

SUSTAINABILITY: Environmentally sound teak is hard to come by. Burma is the only country that still exports teak from natural forests, mostly illegally. Buying anything from Burma provides its brutal military dictatorship with foreign currency. African teak is at risk of becoming endangered

ALTERNATIVES: For Burmese teak try FSC teak, or Jatoba in some cases. Good substitutes for African teak are FSC Favinha, Guariuba and Tatajuba

Re:C# Can Be Faster than C++

[tjstork]

Yeah, that is the story then. Visual C++ compiler sucks. Why are we not that surprised?