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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[RingDev]

The article is individuals who state that the TradElect software is slower than the Chi-X software. The highly biased author then extrapolates that .Net is slower than "GNU/Linux-based software".

They are also talking about trading a $65 Million piece of software for a $30 Million plan to write a piece of software.

The author is highly biased and inflammatory. MS's .Net framework is NOT the answer in every situation, but it is a solid platform for Windows/Web based development.

I'm all for ragging on crappy software, business practices, taxation, etc... coming out of Redmond, but honestly, pissing on the .Net framework because someone developed an application that was 2.3 milliseconds faster at a custom task is a bit asinine.

-Rick