Hardware requirements
Posted May 16, 2008 12:45 UTC (Fri) by
eru (subscriber, #2753)
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Hardware requirements by epa
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New York Stock Exchange Runs Trades On Red Hat Linux (InformationWeek)
600 servers? What on earth are they doing? I thought a stock exchange was a pretty simple business.
I guess that while each transaction is simple, there are lots of them happening simultaneously on a very large stock exchange like NYSE. And maybe the code handling is written in Java with all buzzword-compliant middleware...
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