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About that London Stock Exchange IT failure

About that London Stock Exchange IT failureYou do know, right?You do know that the outage was caused by a [b]network[/b] problem, and had nothing to do with MS technology, right?http://www.computerworlduk.com/management/infrastructure/networks/news/index.cfm?newsid=10912And about those performance rantings of yours:http://www.londonstockexchange.com/NR/exeres/5CA1EB52-2B47-4922-A6F1-E9EC32D0152B.htmhttp://www.londonstockexchange.com/NR/exeres/A1B303DD-86EE-4D84-9B4F-BADFA1C770C7.htmSeriously, is there [b]any[/b] truth in any of your rantings? Don't you get tired...

Tags: .NET, London Stock Exchange IT failure, Murph, LSE, Microsoft Corp., London Stock Exchange Plc., ranting, network story

Discussion threads 2008-09-13

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Microsoft opens Windows Marketplace for Mobile with 246 apps

logic"Bach told press and analysts ... that there are more than 20,000 applications available for Windows Mobile 6 and 6.1 phones ? and even if the applications focused on specific business verticals and IT tasks are subtracted, there are still ?tens of thousands? of Windows Mobile apps out there."20.000 minus...

Tags: Mobile operating systems, Operating systems, Mobile applications, OPEN SOURCE, Wireless and Mobility, Bach, Microsoft Windows Mobile, GPL, Apple Inc., Steve Ballmer, Microsoft Zune, mobile, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-10-06

In Skins vs Believers: Linux always loses

In Skins vs Believers: Linux always losesSo tell me murph,Is that why you were so quick to point fingers at MS when the London Stock Exchange experienced an outage, despite the official reason was a "network connectivity problem"?The same political bias......is often evident when eco-bullies demand that "big oil" companies...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Niagra, fossil fuel, Sun Microsystems Inc., Linux

Discussion threads 2008-12-15

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

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

London Stock Exchange (LSE) system failure stops trading

London Stock Exchange LSE system failure stops tradingMaybe they should not have went to Windows....:) PS This is just a joke, Seeing as Zdnn had all of those Adds with London Stock Exchange going to WindowsRE: London Stock Exchange LSE system failure stops tradingSame is true for everyone on this...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Operating systems, London Stock Exchange Plc., system failure stop

Discussion threads 2007-11-08

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

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