London Stock Exchange Rejects .NET For Open Source

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday October 6, 2009 @08:24AM from the next-stop-world-domination dept.

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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Offshoring to Sri Lanka also helps shaves costs by Bandraginus · 2009-10-06 09:08 · Score: 1, Troll

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).