London Stock Exchange begins migration to Linux-based trading platform (ComputerworldUK)

Posted Jan 22, 2010 1:37 UTC (Fri) by leoc (guest, #39773)
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)

"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] (2 responses)

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 (guest, #39773) [Link] (1 responses)

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?