London Stock Exchange delayed Linux system finally launches on 14 February

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"The London Stock Exchange's delayed Linux-based trading system has finally been given a go-live date of 14 February, for the exchange's main cash markets.

"The LSE also confirmed speculation that it had to work on greatly increasing the Millennium Exchange system's capacity in order to cope with high volume trading.

"The launch date announcement comes as the LSE put the highly-publicised December outage of the system - which already runs on its Turquoise anonymous trading venue - down to "human error"

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