The London Stock Exchange moves to Novell Linux - Additional

[Michael Haney]

On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 8:33 PM, Basil Chupin <blchupin at iinet.net.au> wrote:
> .......
>
> So why is the biggest of big business switching to Linux from Windows and
> Unix? It’s the three “Ss”: speed, security, and stability.
>
> Day trading is so 20th century. Today’s sharp traders make their cash by
> running programs that trade milliseconds ahead of the other guy in High
> Frequency Trading. To do that you need really fast stock exchanges, which is
> where Linux comes in.
>
> As a Deutsche Borse representative told me these days, “Speed, or
> ‘low-latency,’ is everything for exchanges. A fraction of a second can mean
> mega gains or losses to investors. Transactions that once took minutes and
> seconds to complete are now processed in thousandths and millionths of a
> second, with the fastest trading engines reaping the biggest benefits.”
>
> They also have to be secure. When you’re looking at a million plus
> transactions per second, which is what both the LSE and Deutsche Borse
> claims their platforms can do, you don’t want anyone messing with the till
> for even a micro-second.
>
> In addition, these systems have to be stable. The LSE failure cost millions
> of pounds. Traders, who’d expected a good day, were infuriated. Any system
> can, and will, fail, but Linux is simply far more stable on servers than its
> competitors.
>
> http://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source/the-london-stock-exchange-moves-to-novell-linux/8285
>

Let the assault of the Microsoft Marketing machine begin, and if that
doesn't work they'll go to the government and complain and try to stop
the switch-over.  Can't say it won't happen because they've done it on
many occasions.  Remember Microsoft interfering in a deal between
Mandriva and a certain African nation to supply their schools with
Linux PCs?

That's just one example.

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