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nessuno

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Jul 3, 2009, 4:13:54 AM7/3/09
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<Quote>
As part of its strategy to win more trading business and new
customers, the London Stock Exchange needed a scalable, reliable, high-
performance stock exchange ticker plant to replace its earlier system.
Roughly 40 per cent of the Exchange’s revenues are generated by the
sale of real-time information about stock prices. Using the
Microsoft® .NET Framework in Windows Server® 2003 and the Microsoft
SQL Server™ 2000 database, the new Infolect® system has been built to
achieve unprecedented levels of performance, availability, and
business agility. Launched in September 2005, it is maintaining the
London Stock Exchange’s world-leading service reliability record while
reducing latency by a factor of 15. Its successful implementation,
with support from Microsoft and Accenture, shows the London Stock
Exchange’s leadership in developing next-generation trading systems.
</Quote>

http://www.microsoft.com/uk/getthefacts/lse.mspx

Andrew Halliwell

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Jul 3, 2009, 4:48:16 AM7/3/09
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nessuno <nessu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> <Quote>
> As part of its strategy to win more trading business and new
> customers, the London Stock Exchange needed a scalable, reliable, high-
> performance stock exchange ticker plant to replace its earlier system.
> Roughly 40 per cent of the Exchange???s revenues are generated by the

> sale of real-time information about stock prices. Using the
> Microsoftￜ .NET Framework in Windows Serverￜ 2003 and the Microsoft
> SQL Server??? 2000 database, the new Infolectￜ system has been built to

> achieve unprecedented levels of performance, availability, and
> business agility. Launched in September 2005, it is maintaining the
> London Stock Exchange???s world-leading service reliability record while

> reducing latency by a factor of 15. Its successful implementation,
> with support from Microsoft and Accenture, shows the London Stock
> Exchange???s leadership in developing next-generation trading systems.
> </Quote>
>
> http://www.microsoft.com/uk/getthefacts/lse.mspx

I can't wait for the next time their entire infrastructure crashes.
Remember last time? Hilarious.
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Ben

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Jul 3, 2009, 6:20:48 AM7/3/09
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nessuno wrote:
> <Quote>
> As part of its strategy to win more trading business and new
> customers, the London Stock Exchange needed a scalable, reliable, high-
> performance stock exchange ticker plant to replace its earlier system.
> Roughly 40 per cent of the Exchange�s revenues are generated by the

> sale of real-time information about stock prices. Using the
> Microsoft� .NET Framework in Windows Server� 2003 and the Microsoft
> SQL Server� 2000 database, the new Infolect� system has been built to

> achieve unprecedented levels of performance, availability, and
> business agility. Launched in September 2005, it is maintaining the
> London Stock Exchange�s world-leading service reliability record while

> reducing latency by a factor of 15. Its successful implementation,
> with support from Microsoft and Accenture, shows the London Stock
> Exchange�s leadership in developing next-generation trading systems.
> </Quote>
>
> http://www.microsoft.com/uk/getthefacts/lse.mspx

What the London stock exchange needed and what the London stock exchange
got are quite different.

Chris Ahlstrom

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Jul 3, 2009, 9:59:14 AM7/3/09
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After takin' a swig o' grog, nessuno belched out
this bit o' wisdom:

> <Quote>
> As part of its strategy to win more trading business and new
> customers, the London Stock Exchange needed a scalable, reliable, high-
> performance stock exchange ticker plant to replace its earlier system.

> Roughly 40 per cent of the Exchange?s revenues are generated by the


> sale of real-time information about stock prices. Using the

> Microsoft? .NET Framework in Windows Server? 2003 and the Microsoft
> SQL Server? 2000 database, the new Infolect? system has been built to


> achieve unprecedented levels of performance, availability, and
> business agility. Launched in September 2005, it is maintaining the

> London Stock Exchange?s world-leading service reliability record while


> reducing latency by a factor of 15. Its successful implementation,
> with support from Microsoft and Accenture, shows the London Stock

> Exchange?s leadership in developing next-generation trading systems.
> </Quote>
>
> http://www.microsoft.com/uk/getthefacts/lse.mspx

http://blogs.computerworld.com/extra_london_stock_exchange_blame_microsoft

September 9, 2008 - 2:01 P.M.
EXTRA: London Stock Exchange: blame Microsoft?

I have friends in London and... Well, let me just make the following
points about TradElec. First, TradElec runs on ... Windows Server 2003
... [and] a custom set of C# and .NET programs, which was created by
Microsoft and Accenture ... on Microsoft SQL Server 2000. The goal was
to maintain sub-ten millisecond response times.
...
The programmers and serious database administrators in the audience can
already see where this is going. Sorry, Microsoft, .NET Framework is
simply incapable of performing this kind of work, and SQL Server 2000,
or any version of SQL Server really, can't possibly handle the world's
number three stock exchange's transaction load on a consistent basis.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13846_3-10036286-62.html

September 9, 2008 9:32 AM PDT
London Stock Exchange outage blamed on Microsoft

Realistically, this could have happened with any technology choice, but
it's amazing to me that the LSE is not all *nix. Details are fuzzy, so
maybe this is just a desktop as opposed to a core trading system.

http://www.computerworlduk.com/technology/applications/enterprise/news/index.cfm?newsid=15462

The London Stock Exchange may dump its �40 million electronic share
trading platform TradElect and cull IT staff, as the new chief executive
reviews costs.

Not to worry.

Just sounds like a TCO (total cost of ownership) issue. ;->

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Ben

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Jul 3, 2009, 10:14:37 AM7/3/09
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They chose Microsoft.

And now a year later they're screaming like babies and cutting it loose
because it's too expensive to maintain.

Homer

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Jul 3, 2009, 3:00:30 PM7/3/09
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Verily I say unto thee, that Chris Ahlstrom spake thusly:

> Just sounds like a TCO (total cost of ownership) issue. ;->

Or "Trading Ceases Occasionally" (when using Microsoft's software).

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Hans Lister

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Jul 3, 2009, 3:28:31 PM7/3/09
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On Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:00:30 +0100, Homer wrote:

> Verily I say unto thee, that Chris Ahlstrom spake thusly:
>
>> Just sounds like a TCO (total cost of ownership) issue. ;->
>
> Or "Trading Ceases Occasionally" (when using Microsoft's software).

Silly freetard, everybody knows "tricks are for kids!"

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ray

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Jul 5, 2009, 10:53:00 AM7/5/09
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http:/
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would indicate otherwise.

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