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What the hell? So when a driver of a Toyota car crashes into a tree it's Toyota at fault as opposed to the driver? I have no idea why the author has decided to

What the hell? So when a driver of a Toyota car crashes into a tree it's Toyota at fault as opposed to the driver? I have no idea why the author has decided to crowbar their own bias on platform preference into this article. There doesn't appear to be any information that states its the platform at fault.

martin 17y ago
I stopped reading at the point he described the existing solution as "a custom blend of C# and .NET programs." He obviously doesn't have a clue about the platform he's bashing.
- mustpax 17y ago
  Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols has quite a thing for Linux and OSS in general. Check out his articles here: http://blogs.computerworld.com/sjvn http://blogs.computerworld.com/sjvn I mean, I derive no pleasure from using bloated MS software myself (cough Outlook cough), but this guy clearly has an agenda that guides his reporting.
  - StrawberryFrog 17y ago
    Agendas can be Ok, if you have a clue, and some idea of where the real story lies coughAccenturecough. Where I would start - What was the spec for the system? Did it change? What development method was used? was it agile? What test coverage did the system have? How many developers were on it, and how experienced were they? Leaping from "a windows-based system failed" to "anyone ever fool enough to believe that Microsoft software was good enough" and mentioning .Net and MS SQL Server as specific examples is just moronic and ignorant.
    - gaius 17y ago
      I would say the software fulfilled its requirement 100%. It's requirement was to make a boatload of cash for Accenture.
      - StrawberryFrog 17y ago
        While I agree with you, the LSE probably don't see it that way.
aschobel 17y ago
LSE's trading platform, TradeElect, was written by Microsoft and Accenture. http://www.onwindows.com/Articles/LSE-TradElect-system-goes-live/843/Default.aspx http://www.onwindows.com/Articles/LSE-TradElect-system-goes-... Microsoft used TradeElect as a centerpiece in their "Get the Facts" Linux bashing campaign. http://www.microsoft.com/uk/getthefacts/lse.mspx http://www.microsoft.com/uk/getthefacts/lse.mspx Microsoft should get a share of the blame, but it sounds like a borked implementation since NASDAQ runs on Windows.
- cdibona 17y ago
  Did Nasdaq get rid of the hp/tandem nonstop backends then? I don't think they did. As of 2008 they were still running them. They might have windows frontends and middle ware, though.
  - aschobel 17y ago
    You're right, I misspoke when I said "NASDAQ runs on Windows". The information dissemination system runs on Windows, the trading system run on Tandem. http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1290967&cid=28572825 http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1290967&cid=285...
    - cdibona 17y ago
      My first job in the Silicon Valley was on the Himalayas doing QA. They were awesome machines. QA meant pulling drives and cpus in the middle of processing, browning out/cutting power, etc.. it was wonderfully destructive :-)
wglb 17y ago
This article http://techgeist.net/2009/07/london-stock-exchange-moving-windows-linux/ http://techgeist.net/2009/07/london-stock-exchange-moving-wi... does compare to cars, but not quite the way you are mentioning.

martin 17y ago

I stopped reading at the point he described the existing solution as "a custom blend of C# and .NET programs." He obviously doesn't have a clue about the platform he's bashing.

mustpax 17y ago
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols has quite a thing for Linux and OSS in general. Check out his articles here: http://blogs.computerworld.com/sjvn http://blogs.computerworld.com/sjvn I mean, I derive no pleasure from using bloated MS software myself (cough Outlook cough), but this guy clearly has an agenda that guides his reporting.
- StrawberryFrog 17y ago
  Agendas can be Ok, if you have a clue, and some idea of where the real story lies coughAccenturecough. Where I would start - What was the spec for the system? Did it change? What development method was used? was it agile? What test coverage did the system have? How many developers were on it, and how experienced were they? Leaping from "a windows-based system failed" to "anyone ever fool enough to believe that Microsoft software was good enough" and mentioning .Net and MS SQL Server as specific examples is just moronic and ignorant.
  - gaius 17y ago
    I would say the software fulfilled its requirement 100%. It's requirement was to make a boatload of cash for Accenture.
    - StrawberryFrog 17y ago
      While I agree with you, the LSE probably don't see it that way.

aschobel 17y ago

LSE's trading platform, TradeElect, was written by Microsoft and Accenture. http://www.onwindows.com/Articles/LSE-TradElect-system-goes-live/843/Default.aspx http://www.onwindows.com/Articles/LSE-TradElect-system-goes-... Microsoft used TradeElect as a centerpiece in their "Get the Facts" Linux bashing campaign. http://www.microsoft.com/uk/getthefacts/lse.mspx http://www.microsoft.com/uk/getthefacts/lse.mspx Microsoft should get a share of the blame, but it sounds like a borked implementation since NASDAQ runs on Windows.

cdibona 17y ago
Did Nasdaq get rid of the hp/tandem nonstop backends then? I don't think they did. As of 2008 they were still running them. They might have windows frontends and middle ware, though.
- aschobel 17y ago
  You're right, I misspoke when I said "NASDAQ runs on Windows". The information dissemination system runs on Windows, the trading system run on Tandem. http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1290967&cid=28572825 http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1290967&cid=285...
  - cdibona 17y ago
    My first job in the Silicon Valley was on the Himalayas doing QA. They were awesome machines. QA meant pulling drives and cpus in the middle of processing, browning out/cutting power, etc.. it was wonderfully destructive :-)

wglb 17y ago

This article http://techgeist.net/2009/07/london-stock-exchange-moving-windows-linux/ http://techgeist.net/2009/07/london-stock-exchange-moving-wi... does compare to cars, but not quite the way you are mentioning.