:London Stock Exchange platform acquisition ignites open source war of words
London Stock Exchange platform acquisition ignites open source war of words Sep 18, 2009, 15 :06 UTC (4 Talkback[s]) (4512 reads)
"The core MillenniumIT product, Millennium Exchange, runs on Linux and Unix environments with an Oracle database, rather than within a Microsoft architecture.
"Last year the London Stock Exchange experienced a seven hour outage owing to a network software problem. Details of what went wrong remain unclear but Computerworld UK readers questioned the Microsoft software in place at the exchange."
