Red Moon D Watch

Microsoft je na svojim stranicama često isticao Londonsku burzu kao primjer kako njihovi proizvodi mogu zadovoljiti visoko postavljene zahtjeve u kritičnim uvjetima.

http://www.microsoft.com/uk/getthefacts/lse.mspx

Ne mogu sada naći, ali čini mi se da je Microsoft zamijenio neki mrski *NIX ili sličan sistem.

Lesi (LSE možemo tako čitati) se sada vraća kući i prelazi na Linux jer je dosadašnji sistem (znači Microsoft rješenje) imao par ozbiljnih ispada.

IN THE CITY OF LONDON, the financial heart of the UK, the London Stock Exchange (LSE) has begun a twelve-month migration to a Linux based trading system.

By the end of the year it wants the Linux-based MillenniumIT trading platform up and running.

The software was gained by acquiring the Sri Lankan company that developed it for Ł18 million in September. When it is switched on it will replace the outgoing TradElect platform, which is based on Microsoft's .Net framework and was upgraded by Accenture only two years ago at a cost of Ł40 million.

The TradElect system has been an embarrassment to the LSE with a number of high profile outages. It is also understood to be significantly slower than specialist rivals such as Chi-X. Just keeping it running over its last year of operation cost the LSE Ł20 million for patches.

In a press release the LSE told the financial markets that the Linux based software will bring significant benefits. The new trading system will give it "high performance" trading, as well as an "agile, efficient, in-house IT development capability", it said.

With LSE financial backing, the trading system will be flogged to other stock exchanges around the world.