London Stock Exchange - $Soft out, Linux/Solaris in

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Wed, Oct 07, 2009 at 08:35:10AM -0700, Pete Lancashire wrote:
> London Stock Exchange is dumping a .NET-
> based system for an open source -based system:
> 
> http://www.computerworlduk.com/community/blogs/index.cfm?entryid=2568

And as a result so is one in italy owned by the london stock exchange,
and the one in norway has canceled plans to move to the .net based one
and is going with the same choice as london (and italy) which apparently
leaves only southafrica using the .net software and they are contemplating
moving over as well.  That would leave microsoft with zero customers
for their trading software.

Apparently the fact the linux software is almost 10 times faster at doing
a trade than the .net software was apparently not important compared to
cost savings, flexibility and speed of adding new features and support.

Nice to know somebody gets it.

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Len Sorensen
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