I would not be so hasty as to ascribe the LSE failure to Windows. I'm almost certain the problem was in a subsystem (probably in clustering or garbage collection) and not the OS itself. Windows actually has a huge footprint in financial services worldwide -- name any financial services company, and it's almost 100% certain that they use Windows for key elements of their trading system.
On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 1:57 PM, Pablo Manalastas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The London Stock Exchange opened for business 07:00 GMT on Monday, > September 8, but was forced to close shortly after, due to failure > of the Microsoft-based TradElect system to allow connections. LSE > reopened at 13:00 GMT, a half hour before closing time: > > http://www.reuters.com/article/ousiv/idUSL01084620080908?sp=true > > The TradElect system was apparently installed in June 2007, and > is designed to handle increased volume of transactions: > > http://www.onwindows.com/Articles/LSE-TradElect-system-goes-live/843/Default.aspx -- Orlando Andico +63.2.976.8659 | +63.920.903.0335 _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
