LSE Switchover to GNU/Linux Imminent at Robert Pogson

“The exchange is pressing ahead with the start date of 1 November, but if customers – the trading firms – are not ready or any major technical difficulties are experienced, a contingency go-live date of 15 November has been set.

Until then, the exchange will continue to work with the outgoing TradElect system, based on Microsoft .Net architecture and updated by Accenture in 2008 for £40 million. In July, it booked £25.3 million depreciation costs on TradElect.”

That’s it folks, finally a business sees M$ as a liability. Amen.

Talk about price/performance. The software they will be using cost so little, the LSE bought the company and will be selling the product. They expect to get 8 transactions to the millisecond. Amen. Because the software will be working for them and not M$, they should have much better reliability, too.

My Mission

My observations and opinions about IT are based on 40 years of use in science and technology and lately, in education. I like IT that is fast, cost-effective and reliable. I do not care whether my solution is the same as yours. I like to think for myself.

My first use of GNU/Linux in 2001 was so remarkably better than what I had been using, I feel it is important work to share GNU/Linux with the world. I have been blessed by working in schools where students and school systems have benefited by good, modular software easily installed in most systems.

I have shown GNU/Linux to thousands of students and hundreds of teachers over the years and will continue in some way doing that until I die in spite of the opposition.