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- About that London Stock Exchange IT failure
- The obvious lesson from the correlation between Microsoft's eagerness to brag about the performance and reliability of the system installed at the London Stock Exchange and it's actual performance and unreliability is that pride goeth before a fall - but the deeper lesson is that top management didn't do its...
- Tags: Incentive, Hewlett-Packard Co., London Stock Exchange Plc., Information Technology, Microsoft Corp., LSE, Infolect, Linux, Sales Force Management, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Servers, Software, Sales, Hardware, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-09-13
- London Stock Exchange (LSE) system failure stops trading
- Technical problems with the London Stock Exchange's Infolect data delivery system interrupted trading yesterday for 40 minutes, just before the market closed. The timing was highly unfortunate, as it coincided with US stock markets having one of their worst days of the year. From the Times Online:...
- Tags: London Stock Exchange Plc., Infolect, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2007-11-08
- Reviewing a Microsoft anti-Linux case study
- As most people know Microsoft has an anti-Linux program called "Get the Facts" featuring case studies arguing the Windows case. When one of those, wearing the title: London Stock Exchange chooses windows over Linux for reliability, arrived in my email last week, I was sufficiently intrigued by the relative...
- Tags: General, Linux, Vistabulations
- Blog posts 2006-11-21
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- Did Microsoft tech play a part in London Stock Exchange meltdown?
- Did Microsoft tech play a part in London Stock Exchange meltdown?In light of this news, look at this old Sun commercialhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNqPTOb31S8I like Windows on my desktop but for the back end... no thanks. The reasons aren't worth getting into but for particular services, identity management ActiveDirectory and RDBMS SQL Server,...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Telecom & Utilities, Operating systems, UK Economy, London Stock Exchange Plc., tech play, meltdown, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-09-09
- Reviewing a Microsoft anti-Linux case study
- Reviewing a Microsoft anti-Linux case studyTime to prepare tendersfor when this 120 server monster lifts its head briefly to life before expiring with a wimper.The talk of "messages" leads one to believe that the CIO of the LSE will shortly be replaced by someone who has a clue about data...
- Tags: Operating systems, Linux, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Unix, Microsoft Corp., LSE, Nasdaq Stock Market Inc., London Stock Exchange Plc.
- Discussion threads 2006-11-21
- Lightning-Fast Data Delivery at the London Stock Exchange
- A recent review of future requirements identified a need for a technology solution for London Stock Exchange that offered broader functionality than the London Market Information Link LMIL, with support for multiple protocols and data specifications. In selecting a new technology platform, the Exchange benefited from a long-term strategic relationship...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., London Stock Exchange Plc., Investment, Databases, Finance, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
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- London Stock Exchange Cuts Information Dissemination Time From 30 to 2 Milliseconds
- As part of its strategy to win more trading business and new customers, the London Stock Exchange needed a scalable, reliable, high-performance stock exchange ticker plant to replace its earlier system. Roughly 40 per cent of the Exchange's revenues are generated by the sale of real-time information about stock prices....
- Tags: London Stock Exchange Plc., Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Microsoft Windows, Investment, .Net, Databases, Servers, Operating Systems, Software, Finance, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Enterprise Software, Data Management, Hardware
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