Ubuntu Stability For Trading

[John Law]

Hi

On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 10:58 PM, Ioannis Vranos
<ioannis.vranos at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 4:35 PM, John Law <sgjohnlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> I am setting up some trading desks for a newly set up fund. Our
>> trading platform runs entirely on Java in web browsers. I am
>> considering if Ubuntu is stable enough for such a task or would other
>> distros, BSDs be a better choice.
>>
>> The desk would be used by traders to place trades and not for
>> algorithmic trading. It would based on Intel i5, 8G RAM and 2
>> monitors.
>
> What graphics card?

The graphics is integrated.

We are expected to continue to use Oracle Java as we realize that our
platform, for some unknown reasons, cannot run on OpenJDK 5/6/7 in
Ubuntu 10.10/11.10/12.04.