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Re:London Stock Exchange: What really went wrong by recoiledsnake on Monday March 07, 2011 @10:27AM (#2297386)
These seem to indicate systemic problems with the LSE. That makes me wonder if it was really justified to blame Windows Server and SQL Server the last time around.
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Re:London Stock Exchange: What really went wrong by CountSessine on Monday March 07, 2011 @03:23PM (#2298521)
That makes me wonder if it was really justified to blame Windows Server and SQL Server the last time around

Maybe, maybe not. But Microsoft probably should have thought twice about featuring TradElect as a star .NET deployment given the generally poor development practices that seem to have been at work here.

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Re:London Stock Exchange: What really went wrong by regularfry on Monday March 07, 2011 @03:07PM (#2298467)
I don't know. In this case the outsourcer seems to be a lowest-bidder offshorer. Last time it was Microsoft. I don't know if there's anything that can be learnt from this.
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