In another example that Windows server cannot keep up with the speed and reliability of Linux servers, Computerworld is reporting that the London Stock Exchange is dumping the expensive trading system developed by Microsoft and Accenture. While the system never came close to reaching the goals of sub-ten millisecond response times, the turing point was when the system crashed last September leaving the major stock exchange at a standstill for almost an entire day.
The trading system, called TradElect, ran on Windows Server 2003 and Microsoft SQL server.
The London stock exchange may be looking at a Linux based system as a replacement. The other major exchanges in the UK as well as the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and the New York Stock Exchange run a Linux trading system. The Linux trading system has proven to have great reliability. Plus all these systems meet the sub-ten millisecond response times desired by the London Stock Exchange.
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