Re:London Stock Exchange crippled by system outage
by michaelneale on Monday September 08, 2008 @08:52PM
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And they chose windows over linux for Reliability: http://www.idgconnect.com/software/windows/london_stock_exch...
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Re:London Stock Exchange crippled by system outage
by briansmith on Monday September 08, 2008 @11:34PM
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Windows doesn't take 8 hours to reboot. I'm gonna guess that it was some data corruption or hardware failure that forced a rebuild of some large database node.