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10/9/2009

London Stock Exchange dumps Windows

Filed under: Geek News and Stuff,General — site admin @ 7:43 am

It’s old news to most geeks, but the London Stock Exchange is dumping their Windows-based trading system for a Linux-based trading system.
Apparently the Windows solution just couldn’t keep up.

LSE to dump Windows
Open source makes big gains at the LSE
LSE buys MilleniumIT so all of the exchange software is now created “in house” in Sri Lanka.

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