2009/7/6 Timothy Sipples <[email protected]>: > Ken Porowski writes: >>Looks like they picked Linux as the platform to go forward with. > > The Computerworld article doesn't actually say that. In terms of factual > assertions the article only claims that the LSE has decided to move off > Microsoft Windows. The author of the article then takes his own editorial > leap of faith and thinks the LSE might choose Linux (with hardware to be > determined). But he doesn't claim the LSE has decided that. He just thinks > it's possible because there's some other trading application running on > Linux, and Linux is not Windows.
For that matter, I don't see where it makes any "factual assertion" about abandoning Windows. The headline says "[LSE] to abandon failed Windows platform", but that can just as well be read as talking about their application, which sounds like the typical designed-by-consultants, outsourced, all-process-and-no-results, overbudget, undergood piece of, uh, application code. In any case, no one from the LSE seems to be on record on any of this; it's all "is reported to" and "City sources say", and other equally reliable reportage. Tony H. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
