½OT: LSE switching over to Linux

Posted Oct 25, 2010 14:56 UTC (Mon) by Curan (subscriber, #66186)
Parent article: Linux at NASDAQ OMX

Just read, that the London Stock Exchange is now also running on Linux (after they were featured prominently in MS ads in the past, at least over here) and trumpeting "world record trading speed" (126 microseconds/transaction).

½OT: LSE switching over to Linux

Posted Oct 30, 2010 1:06 UTC (Sat) by mab (guest, #314) [Link] (1 responses)

I hope it wasn't the cause of this http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/banksandf...

½OT: LSE switching over to Linux

Posted Nov 1, 2010 8:58 UTC (Mon) by buchanmilne (guest, #42315) [Link]

It seems they switch over today:

The news comes ahead a major Linux-based switchover in twelve days, during which the open source system will replace Microsoft .Net technology on the groups main stock exchange.
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Millennium Exchange is set to go live on the LSEs main exchange in 12 days time, on 1 November.