London Stock Exchange to abandon MS Windows

Re:London Stock Exchange to abandon MS Windows by Quarrelsome on Friday July 03, 2009 @01:55PM (#686378)

What the hell? So when a driver of a Toyota car crashes into a tree it's Toyota at fault as opposed to the driver?

I have no idea why the author has decided to crowbar their own bias on platform preference into this article. There doesn't appear to be any information that states its the platform at fault.

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Re:London Stock Exchange to abandon MS Windows by aschobel on Friday July 03, 2009 @04:33PM (#686574)

LSE's trading platform, TradeElect, was written by Microsoft and Accenture.

http://www.onwindows.com/Articles/LSE-TradElect-system-goes-...

Microsoft used TradeElect as a centerpiece in their "Get the Facts" Linux bashing campaign.

http://www.microsoft.com/uk/getthefacts/lse.mspx

Microsoft should get a share of the blame, but it sounds like a borked implementation since NASDAQ runs on Windows.

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Re:London Stock Exchange to abandon MS Windows by cdibona on Friday July 03, 2009 @07:33PM (#686725)

Did Nasdaq get rid of the hp/tandem nonstop backends then? I don't think they did. As of 2008 they were still running them. They might have windows frontends and middle ware, though.

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Re:London Stock Exchange to abandon MS Windows by aschobel on Friday July 03, 2009 @08:06PM (#686744)

You're right, I misspoke when I said "NASDAQ runs on Windows".

The information dissemination system runs on Windows, the trading system run on Tandem.

http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1290967&cid=285...

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Re:London Stock Exchange to abandon MS Windows by cdibona on Friday July 03, 2009 @11:59PM (#686882)

My first job in the Silicon Valley was on the Himalayas doing QA. They were awesome machines. QA meant pulling drives and cpus in the middle of processing, browning out/cutting power, etc.. it was wonderfully destructive :-)

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Re:London Stock Exchange to abandon MS Windows by martin on Friday July 03, 2009 @03:11PM (#686483)

I stopped reading at the point he described the existing solution as "a custom blend of C# and .NET programs." He obviously doesn't have a clue about the platform he's bashing.

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Re:London Stock Exchange to abandon MS Windows by mustpax on Friday July 03, 2009 @03:25PM (#686502)

Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols has quite a thing for Linux and OSS in general. Check out his articles here: http://blogs.computerworld.com/sjvn

I mean, I derive no pleasure from using bloated MS software myself (cough Outlook cough), but this guy clearly has an agenda that guides his reporting.

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Re:London Stock Exchange to abandon MS Windows by StrawberryFrog on Friday July 03, 2009 @05:38PM (#686654)

Agendas can be Ok, if you have a clue, and some idea of where the real story lies coughAccenturecough. Where I would start - What was the spec for the system? Did it change? What development method was used? was it agile? What test coverage did the system have? How many developers were on it, and how experienced were they?

Leaping from "a windows-based system failed" to "anyone ever fool enough to believe that Microsoft software was good enough" and mentioning .Net and MS SQL Server as specific examples is just moronic and ignorant.

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Re:London Stock Exchange to abandon MS Windows by gaius on Saturday July 04, 2009 @03:01AM (#686975)

I would say the software fulfilled its requirement 100%.

It's requirement was to make a boatload of cash for Accenture.

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Re:London Stock Exchange to abandon MS Windows by StrawberryFrog on Saturday July 04, 2009 @03:58AM (#687006)

While I agree with you, the LSE probably don't see it that way.

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Re:London Stock Exchange to abandon MS Windows by wglb on Friday July 03, 2009 @10:24PM (#686820)

This article http://techgeist.net/2009/07/london-stock-exchange-moving-wi... does compare to cars, but not quite the way you are mentioning.

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