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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. >
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