Delicious Schadenfreude from London

[Michael Haney]

On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 5:38 AM, Conrad Knauer <atheoi at gmail.com> wrote:
> Half a decade ago, M$ was crowing loudly about being the software
> supplier for the London Stock Exchange
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwSM55bsCrM
>
> It became one of their main exhibits in the 'Get the Facts' FUD campaign.
> http://www.microsoft.com/uk/getthefacts/lse.mspx
>
> But then things started to go wrong...
> http://blogs.computerworld.com/london_stock_exchange_suffers_net_crash
>
> And today I see that it ends for them in an epic fail >:)
> http://www.computerworlduk.com/community/blogs/index.cfm?entryid=2568
>
> *** The London Stock Exchange is switching to Linux. ***
>
> For less than half the cost of buying the proprietary software from
> M$, they are buying a COMPANY that is producing the Linux-based
> solution.
>
> The cost savings are estimated to be ~$15M per year!
>
> The speed of the system will improve by ~7x!
>
> Releases will be much faster too (that sounds familiar ;)
>
> AND the tech will likely replace the Microsoft offering in other markets too!
>
> To quote the article:
>
> "So, rather 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."
>
> Watching Microsoft slowly crumble like this is just so delicious; I am
> savoring the Schadenfreude right now.  Mmmmmmmm... >:-)
>

You know I find it funny that some exec at Micro$oft (can't remember
who it was) said Windows isn't for "mission critical" applications yet
the company tries to sell the OS for that very purpose anyway.  What's
even more funny is how everything blows up in the faces of the idiots
who buy into their FUD and spend millions of dollars only to have it
all backfire.  This isn't an isolated case, some big company buys
Micro$oft's marketing spiel and invests in a huge Windows-based
infrastructure for a mission critical computer system and soon after
its implemented it all comes crashing down because the OS can't handle
the load.  I've seen lots of articles about this in the past yet
companies keep buying Windows like Lemmings throwing themselves off a
cliff.

Years ago, Micro$oft bought Hotmail.com.  At that time it was running
Linux.  M$ switched the service to Windows NT and almost immediately
there were issues.  The servers kept crashing, when they didn't crash
the service was horribly slow, and several times just trying to read
your mail you got M$ SQL errors .... just trying to READ your emails.
It was so bad they had to switch back to what Hotmail was using
before.  I was a Hotmail user when this happened, and I can tell you
it was bad.  I also hate it when sites are running on Windows NT or
Windows Server.  You almost always get those thrice dammed M$ SQL
errors at least once or more and the sites are ALWAYS slow to load and
respond.  I can almost always tell when a web server is running on
Windows just by how its behaving, because they always behave the same
way.  Like slow pieces of crap.

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