How a CTO faced his worst nightmare (News.com)

[Posted July 17, 2002 by corbet]

News.com talks with Roger Burkhardt, CTO of the New York Stock Exchange. "Our application servers are all off site at two data centers that run in active-active mode. They are always processing work, and either one is capable of taking the whole load, and the clients on the trading floor are very, very thin so you can boot them very fast. That is one of the things about Linux--you can recover very quickly."