Ubuntu Stability For Trading

[Ric Moore]

On 02/03/2012 11:26 AM, John Law wrote:
> 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.

OpenJDK hasn't floated my boat for Open Wonderland, a highly intensive 
3D world server, but there are reports on that list that the latest 
openjdk7 will work. I haven't tried it myself yet. Ric