Linux Ready For Real Time on Wall Street? (InternetNews.com)

Linux Ready For Real Time on Wall Street? (InternetNews.com)

Posted Apr 24, 2007 20:52 UTC (Tue) by Cato (subscriber, #7643)
In reply to: Linux Ready For Real Time on Wall Street? (InternetNews.com) by jwb
Parent article: Linux Ready For Real Time on Wall Street? (InternetNews.com)

Since there's a lot of demand to migrate from proprietary systems to Linux, I expect there will be suitable hardware for the fault-tolerant niche you're describing. For example, NEC released fault-tolerant hardware for Linux in 2002 and recently announced RHEL support for this: http://www.itweek.co.uk/vnunet/news/2162395/nec-puts-red-...

As for remote mirroring, this can be done on any Linux or Unix platform using J2EE application clustering and database clustering, and a suitably expensive fibre optic link and SAN setup.

In the 90s, Tandem NonStop systems got new competition from Unix based hardware fault tolerant systems (throwing hardware at the problem), and in this decade there's a visible trend towards Linux.

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