Interesting read: London Stock Exchange dumps Windows for Linux
ComputerWorld reported on Oct 7th, 2009:
When it comes to business computer systems, nothing is more mission-critical than the massive trading software systems that underlie stock markets. A failure of an hour here can mean billions of dollars of lost trades….
see article at London Stock Exchange dumps Windows for Linux
Bottom line, the London Stock Exchange (LSE) had so many troubles and scandals due to software problems (crash, slow etc.) in the past, all related to their Windows 2003-based servers, that they decided to look for a Linux replacement that seems to be more reliable, faster and a lot cheaper solution - their conterpart in the USA - the NYSE - had done so a long time ago.
I hope the pharmaceutical companies do not consider their operations less mission critical.
posted by: Aniko
October 15th, 2009 at 3:10 pm
Qoute from Bill Gates:
“Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don’t think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.”