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London Stock Exchange begins migration to Linux-based trading platform (ComputerworldUK)London Stock Exchange begins migration to Linux-based trading platform (ComputerworldUK)Posted Jan 21, 2010 21:04 UTC (Thu) by drag (subscriber, #31333)In reply to: London Stock Exchange begins migration to Linux-based trading platform (ComputerworldUK) by trasz Parent article: London Stock Exchange begins migration to Linux-based trading platform (ComputerworldUK)
I know who made the previous London Stock Exchange program:
Microsoft did. At least partially.
For customers this huge and opportunities this lucrative you can bet that
I don't know how much anybody here has dealt with Microsoft, but if your a
And that is just for a relatively small company. For something like the LSE
This is actually one of the nice points about Microsoft. If your using
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London Stock Exchange begins migration to Linux-based trading platform (ComputerworldUK) Posted Jan 21, 2010 21:52 UTC (Thu) by trasz (guest, #45786) [Link]
Go read TheDailyWTF.com. 90% of these cases happened in Windows environment. Most of the companies involved could easily get support from Microsoft. There is nothing Microsoft can do if the company employs a bunch of morons.
London Stock Exchange begins migration to Linux-based trading platform (ComputerworldUK) Posted Jan 21, 2010 23:20 UTC (Thu) by cmccabe (guest, #60281) [Link]
Microsoft put the London Stock Exchange up on its website as a case study.
http://switch.atdmt.com/action/FY07_Linux_LSE_Download
Would they really have done that if they thought the Accenture / TradElect guys were "a bunch of morons?"
> Go read TheDailyWTF.com. 90% of these cases happened in Windows environment
Maybe that's because smarter programmers prefer to use other platforms? Hmm, no, can't be. Must be another giant conspiracy.
London Stock Exchange begins migration to Linux-based trading platform (ComputerworldUK) Posted Jan 22, 2010 1:37 UTC (Fri) by leoc (subscriber, #39773) [Link] "There is nothing Microsoft can do if the company employs a bunch of morons."Hate to be the one to break this to you, but Microsoft was heavily involved in all aspects of the LSE .NET implementation. "Working with Microsoft and Accenture, the London Stock Exchange replaced its London Market Information Link (LMIL®) system with Infolect®. It used the Microsoft® .NET Framework, the Microsoft Visual C#® .NET development tool, and the Microsoft SQL Server 2000 database." (source, emphasis mine) "The application is based on Microsoft® .NET and Microsoft SQL Server 2000 and was developed in partnership with both Microsoft and Accenture." (source, emphasis mine)
London Stock Exchange begins migration to Linux-based trading platform (ComputerworldUK) Posted Jan 22, 2010 11:12 UTC (Fri) by epa (subscriber, #39769) [Link]
This is press-release-speak. It doesn't tell you how much real involvement Microsoft technical people had with the project. It might just as well mean that some marketing guy from Redmond played golf with the Accenture project manager (who can then sound good to his boss by saying he got special help from Microsoft).
London Stock Exchange begins migration to Linux-based trading platform (ComputerworldUK) Posted Jan 22, 2010 18:32 UTC (Fri) by leoc (subscriber, #39773) [Link] I don't see how us not knowing who did the "real" work benefits them in any way. Even if their only involvement was to spend 5 minutes writing a press release taking credit for the work, it is still their fault when it fails, just as it would be to their credit had it succeeded. Considering the LSE CIO touted his personal relationship with Steve Ballmer while he was dissing Linux, I would be absolutely astonished if Ballmer didn't send every member of the core .NET and Windows develop teams to the LSE when the shit hit the fan.
London Stock Exchange begins migration to Linux-based trading platform (ComputerworldUK) Posted Jan 24, 2010 22:26 UTC (Sun) by alextingle (guest, #20593) [Link]
Wow, that article is from 2003 and already it sounds like another world.
One 2003-era CIO said "[our supplier forced us to switch to Linux and] we found we had an additional overhead in understanding the technology and the total cost of ownership has risen." He was obviously influenced by those old "total cost of ownership" ads from Microsoft. You don't hear MS banging on about TCO these days do you?
London Stock Exchange begins migration to Linux-based trading platform (ComputerworldUK) Posted Jan 22, 2010 16:14 UTC (Fri) by brianomahoney (subscriber, #6206) [Link]
Having read the comments on this thread I would politely suggest that you take your appologist comments, FUD and Astroturfing somewhere else.
LWN tries to be factual, and unbiased.
London Stock Exchange begins migration to Linux-based trading platform (ComputerworldUK) Posted Jan 28, 2010 21:46 UTC (Thu) by SEMW (guest, #52697) [Link]
I haven't been participating in this thread, but I feel I have to comment here:
> I would politely suggest that you take your appologist comments, FUD and Astroturfing somewhere else. LWN tries to be factual, and unbiased.
And it succeeds, in both cases; not only in the articles, but also, for the most part, in the comment threads. And part of the reason it succeeds in comment threads is the variety views represented by the commenters. There are two sides to every story, and in LWN, you will usually see the 'other' side presented fairly somewhere in the comments (even in stories involving companies viewed by most of the community as 'bad guys', such as Microsoft), if only sometimes by a devil's advocate in order to spark informed discussion. This is a good thing: uniform 'group-think' is the enemy of neutrality.
Anyway, the point of this is that accusing anyone who posts a comment in support of Microsoft of 'astroturfing' (i.e. being paid by Microsoft) is not only probably untrue, but also pretty counter-productive if your goal is informed discussion. Having all sides of the story represented is a good thing, even the sides you don't happen to agree with.
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