While this story keeps getting trotted out by the Linux evangelists, it's impossible to claim that the performance and stability improvements are down to the switch from Windows to Linux. The switch from the.NET based TradElec to the *nix based Millennium Exchange necessitated the change in underlying operating system, which means that the entire software stack has changed.
The switch to the Millennium Exchange wasn't exactly smooth either. http://www.computerworlduk.com/news/it-business/3261816/london-stock-exchange-price-data-failures-emerged-immediately-at-millennium-launch/
Given that the LSE are rather secretive, most of us will never know what caused the outage that led to the switch.
You're correct that.NET has not made a dent in the shrink wrapped software market. However, by that metric you could also say that was true of Python, Java, any language that is not C or C++.
Where.NET has made a huge impact is in server side development (e.g. ASP.NET) and products for the "enterprise". Additionally,.NET has been seeing an upward trend, see http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/paperinfo/tpci/C_.html and is the 5th most popular programming language on the TIOBE index so.NET is not going away any time soon.
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While this story keeps getting trotted out by the Linux evangelists, it's impossible to claim that the performance and stability improvements are down to the switch from Windows to Linux. The switch from the .NET based TradElec to the *nix based Millennium Exchange necessitated the change in underlying operating system, which means that the entire software stack has changed.
The switch to the Millennium Exchange wasn't exactly smooth either. http://www.computerworlduk.com/news/it-business/3261816/london-stock-exchange-price-data-failures-emerged-immediately-at-millennium-launch/
Given that the LSE are rather secretive, most of us will never know what caused the outage that led to the switch.
You're correct that .NET has not made a dent in the shrink wrapped software market. However, by that metric you could also say that was true of Python, Java, any language that is not C or C++.
Where .NET has made a huge impact is in server side development (e.g. ASP.NET) and products for the "enterprise". Additionally, .NET has been seeing an upward trend, see http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/paperinfo/tpci/C_.html and is the 5th most popular programming language on the TIOBE index so .NET is not going away any time soon.