blogs.computerworld.com — In September 2008, the London Stock Exchange collapsed because its Windows-based electronic trading platform, TradElect completely failed. Now, under new leadership, the Exchange will finally do away with its fatally flawed Windows system.
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darkstar3333Jul 3, 2009
When they say Joint development between Microsoft and a Consulting Partner group that just means Microsoft consulting had a few people there to oversee things. Accenture is not know for there code quality but rather rates and ability to get things done quickly, this boils down to the reality that they had hundreds of people working on this project around the world. When you do something fast and cheap the quality will not be good.Like everything else in the consulting world you have good consultants and bad consultants. A custom blend of C# and .Net programs leads me to believe it was never scoped or developed as an end to end system in the first place.When you have many teams working on many interconnecting pieces in parallel your bound to his problems. Consulting 101.
majortom1981Jul 3, 2009
GEt off of it i was head of a network for an insurance company and our mission critical servers did just fine running Microsoft windows server.
reedatschoolJul 3, 2009
Nothing inherently wrong with Windows NT? It is designed to fail, try changing out you hardware to find your operating system no longer boots. Nothing inherently wrong though.Not to mention it isn't free or open, but nothing inherently wrong...? I guess you do no what inherently wrong means, to me Windows NT is inherently wrong for many applications. For instance, you wouldn't want to run your supercomputer on it.
soichihJul 4, 2009
I've been working on IT industry for more than a decade now, and all I want to say about Microsoft is that this company has successfully delayed the progress of the entire industry by 10 to 20 years..
kwilmsJul 6, 2009
Whoa! The London stock exchange (a mission critical banking system) runs on windows?! There are probably a lot of other very important systems that run Windows too... scary stuff! The article notes the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and the New York Stock Exchange run linux.
Closed AccountJul 6, 2009
You have no idea what your talking about. I compile my own Postgres for ubuntu all the time. You can use the configure flags to set it up exactly like ubuntu does it,or just run it out of /usr/local.