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London Stock Exchange Tackles System Problem

Posted by samzenpus on from the fix-the-glitch dept.

DMandPenfold writes "The London Stock Exchange has taken steps to resolve a system problem that occurred at 4.30pm Tuesday, which saw a delay to the start of the closing auction and knocked out automatic trades during a 42 second period. The problem occurred a day after the high profile launch of its new matching engine on the main equities market, based on the SUSE Linux system from Novell."

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  1. Re:"Oh well I guess Linux sucks then by bjourne · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    In this case, they didn't just move from Windows to Linux, they also changed the development environment from C# to C++ which definitely is a huge downgrade. They are trading a higher-level language with (builtin) garbage collection, huge standard library, runtime protection, linq and runtime protections for one which hasn't with the only advantage that C++ _may_ be 2-3% faster for some tasks.

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