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London Stock Exchange to abandon failed Windows platform

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Anyone who was ever fool enough to believe that Microsoft software was good enough to be used for a mission-critical operation had their face slapped this September when the LSE (London Stock Exchange)'s Windows-based TradElect system brought the market to a standstill for almost an entire day. While the LSE denied that the collapse was TradElect's fault, they also refused to explain what the problem really wa. Sources at the LSE tell me to this day that the problem was with TradElect.

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Wow. Another "ship adrift" because of a Windows fault? Where are the redundant systems to prevent that. Recognize the limits of the system and protect yourself accordingly - SOP in all aspects of technology. Why? Because systems, especially complex systems, are likely to fail. Doesn't really matter that it was Windows (or Unix, Linux, MacOS, Cobol, Fortran, or whatever).

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Reply#1 - Fri Jul 3, 2009 10:57 AM EDT
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Any Operating System or Application is at the mercy of the consultants who design and maintain a system.

Accenture, did the consulting. Hmmm... could be bad news for them.

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Reply#2 - Fri Jul 3, 2009 3:09 PM EDT
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