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It is sad that the underlying system gets blamed in these cases. While it is easiest to simplify and the blame gets passed around, there's no reason why you can

It is sad that the underlying system gets blamed in these cases. While it is easiest to simplify and the blame gets passed around, there's no reason why you can't build a fault-tolerant system on-top of Windows. In fact, there's nothing particular about Linux that makes it immune from failure or bottlenecks (hardware, infrastructure, etc) that a high availability, high throughput system would need to overcome, nullifying any increases in stability or performance innate to the OS. While I would professionally recommend Linux over Windows, it wouldn't be for reasons of "stability" or "performance" but that it was simpler and more straight-forward to sanely manage large farms of interdependent Linux boxes and that Linux provides a better development platform for these types of distributed applications. I agree though, it would be a nice anecdotal win for Linux.

artmageddon 16y ago
From what I read, Accenture built the system using SQL Server 2000... but this was a system that had been upgraded in 2007. Why didn't they use SQL Server 2005? I tried looking around also but couldn't find anymore technical details on what exactly caused the system to fail. I should mention that despite being a .Net guy by trade I too would recommend a Linux system for something like this, especially for performance reasons where microseconds matter. Still I can't help but feel a little frustrated that no one ever said what exactly occurred beyond "one or two unforseen events happened that brought down the London exchange for several hours". In fact, one article even attributed the outage to human error! Aside from poor UI design or confusing procedures, sometimes it's a matter of PEBKAC. (or maybe I just didn't get lucky in my searches)
mbreese 16y ago
From what I remember reading at the time, Accenture was the consultant that implemented the system, but that Redmond itself was heavily involved in the design / coding for the system.

artmageddon 16y ago

From what I read, Accenture built the system using SQL Server 2000... but this was a system that had been upgraded in 2007. Why didn't they use SQL Server 2005? I tried looking around also but couldn't find anymore technical details on what exactly caused the system to fail. I should mention that despite being a .Net guy by trade I too would recommend a Linux system for something like this, especially for performance reasons where microseconds matter. Still I can't help but feel a little frustrated that no one ever said what exactly occurred beyond "one or two unforseen events happened that brought down the London exchange for several hours". In fact, one article even attributed the outage to human error! Aside from poor UI design or confusing procedures, sometimes it's a matter of PEBKAC. (or maybe I just didn't get lucky in my searches)

mbreese 16y ago

From what I remember reading at the time, Accenture was the consultant that implemented the system, but that Redmond itself was heavily involved in the design / coding for the system.