Re: New York Stock Exchange moves to Linux

["Ruben Safir Secretary NYLXS" <user=91@nabble.blu.org>]

 On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 09:20:14PM -0500, Jarod Wilson wrote: 
> On Dec 17, 2007, at 6:26 PM, Kristian Erik Hermansen wrote: 
> 
> >This is great news!  The NYSE has installed 600 Linux machines to 
> >handle the load of millions of stock transactions per second.  This is 
> >an incredible "thumbs-up" from the people who probably have enough 
> >money to buy anything they want.  Check out the article below... 
> >http://www.linuxjournal.com/node/1005916
> 
> See, now this is one of the major differences between Red Hat and   
> Canonical right now. You can bet that if it were Ubuntu on those   
> systems, that news would be plastered all over the place. Even a more   
> in-depth article on the matter doesn't mention what distribution   
> they're using: 
> 
> http://www.nytimes.com/idg/IDG_002570DE00740E18002573B100020F62.html
> 
> Since I don't see it mentioned anywhere, I'll withhold any *cough*   
> "guesses" as to what they're actually running. 
>