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London Stock Exchange platform acquisition ignites open source war of words

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“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.”


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