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LSE's trading platform, TradeElect, was written by Microsoft and Accenture. http://www.onwindows.com/Articles/LSE-TradElect-system-goes-live/843/Default.aspx h
by 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 agoDid 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 agoYou'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 agoMy 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 :-)