[whatajoke]

Is this the same system that replaced the failed Microsoft platform? http://blogs.computerworld.com/london_stock_exchange_to_aban...

Microsoft had run huge ads on how LSE was using .NET and Windows in critical financial applications. Within a year LSE had suffered crashes in the same critical areas.

[JoachimSchipper]

I believe so, yes.

In fairness, though, it may not have been MS' fault - crappy programming is crappy, no matter the underlying OS. And Linux fanboys should wait to see if the new system has roll-out issues...

[gaius]

Agreed, Accenture code can make any OS slow.

[nodata]

If I remember correctly, the LSE brought in Microsoft themselves to fix the problems. And Microsoft couldn't.

[dhyasama]

Source?

[recoiledsnake]

I doubt they could fix architectural issues that permeated from the very beginning after the fact.

[anarcticpuffin]

I agree. At these speeds it has less to with OS and/or language and has more to do with smart programming decisions. PS - Singapore Stock Exchange quotes a faster latency than Nasdaq and LSE:

http://www.a-teamgroup.com/article/voltaire-powering-fastest...

[known]

Yes. The Linux version is developed at http://www.milleniumit.com/media_room/gui-press_releases.php

[munchhausen]

> Yes. The Linux version is developed at http://www.milleniumit.com/media_room/gui-press_releases.php

Can you elaborate on this? Are they developing a fork of the Linux kernel? A new Linux distro? Or could it be that they are developing the trading "platform", using a commodity Linux distro?

[konad]

RTFA it says all that in the second paragraph.