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
On Wed, Oct 07, 2009 at 10:38:46AM -0700, Rob Saul wrote: > Interesting. Just this morning I was wondering what sort > of inroads OSS has made at this 'level'. The financial/investment community has had a strong commitment to Unix for decades. The remaining question was when to move from Unix to Linux, and most large firms made the back-office conversion years ago. Most of the desktop is still M$. In fact, OSS has already moved to the next level. The battle for the kernel is raging between better latency and better batch throughput. In environments where being 1msec late for a trade can cost thousands of dollars, hundreds of times a day, low latency wins. This was the subject of one of the talks at Linuxcon (by a coder for a big European stock trader, IIRC), who was showing how latency was increasing in recent kernels. I suspect he just needs to recompile his kernels ... On the other side of the battle is shops processing humongous amounts of data. There are user-level equivalents of this battle; I do a lot a bulk computing, and have different kernel needs than a gamer. So we may already be in the late stages of the war, with the defeat of the M$ Axis in sight, and beginning the squabble over post-war borders. Keith -- Keith Lofstrom [email protected] Voice (503)-520-1993 KLIC --- Keith Lofstrom Integrated Circuits --- "Your Ideas in Silicon" Design Contracting in Bipolar and CMOS - Analog, Digital, and Scan ICs _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
