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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."
Buy a Mac and a PC. Support monopolies and rebuild the worldwide economy.
Newsflash! Ditching a custom Accenture solution for an offshore offering from Sri Lanka cuts costs! News at 11.
Look guys, I'm a Microsoft basher along with the best of them (I'm a Solaris administrator), but it seems to me like most of this cost savings is delivered by offshoring and ditching a major systems integrator.
(Discloser: I also used to work for Accenture).
This sort of "milliseconds=thousands of dollars" BS just emphasizes the disconnect between the "value" of the US currency and anything of actual value as a normal human understands it, IMHO.
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law
MS has not enough money anymore to corrupt key people at London stock exchange?? Like what they did at asus for the netbooks and with activision about the UT3 client and what about blizzard with WOW? Another explanation:it really does not work.