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London Stock Exchange Tackles System Problem

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday February 16, 2011 @07:33PM 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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Re:"Oh well I guess Linux sucks then by michelcolman · 2011-02-16 20:17 · Score: 4, Funny

They should have just used a Mac. iStockExchange is a free download for MobileMe members.
Re:Newsworthy? by DeBaas · 2011-02-16 20:28 · Score: 5, Funny

Why is this news? None of the several hour long outage calls I've been involved with were ever on the news.
Simple, when a Linux system has a 42 seconds outage that's news. When a windows systems has several hours outage, there is nothing new about.
Odd that you didn't get that..

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Re:"Oh well I guess Linux sucks then by Anonymous Coward · 2011-02-16 20:35 · Score: 3, Funny

But wont Apple keep 30% of the money that flows through it?
Re:First posters are lame by Anonymous Coward · 2011-02-17 00:53 · Score: 0, Funny

Oh sorry, I didn't see your get out-out-of-being-a-douche-free card.