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Open Source Makes Big Gains at the London Stock Exchange
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"Get the facts" .... ;-P
http://www.microsoft.com/uk/getthefacts/lse.mspx
High-performance? 2.7ms for .Net versus 0.4ms for Linux does not mean "high performance".
I told my Mom the story of the London Stock Exchange experience, and she laughed, and laughed...
Especially at the part where Microsoft is still using the install in their marketing efforts.
Especially at the part where Microsoft is still using the install in their marketing efforts.
Sander, I think it means whoever put out those numbers was high.
London's stock exchange crashes again ...
quote : "Who's to blame this time?"
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11/26/lse_crash_again/
quote : "Trading on the London Stock Exchange has resumed after a technology glitch halted transactions across the market for three and a half hours.
The outage was the worst since an almost day-long closure of the LSE in September last year, and comes after similar outages at rival European exchanges in recent months." http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/8d2b99a0-da93-11de-9c32-00144feabd...
quote : "Trading on the London Stock Exchange has resumed after a technology glitch halted transactions across the market for three and a half hours.
The outage was the worst since an almost day-long closure of the LSE in September last year, and comes after similar outages at rival European exchanges in recent months." http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/8d2b99a0-da93-11de-9c32-00144feabd...
So the market has spoken. MS sucks and open source is cheaper and better.
Also true on supercomputers and mobile phones.
The desktop looks like MS's circled wagon.
Frist giggle!
Henke, that FT link does't work. The URL encodes some unique ID that only allows two visits per day
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