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[roseway]

The London Stock Exchange has said its new Linux-based system is delivering world record networking speed, with 126 microsecond trading times.

The news comes ahead a major Linux-based switchover in twelve days, during which the open source system will replace Microsoft .Net technology on the group’s main stock exchange. The LSE had long been criticised on speed and reliability, grappling with trading speeds of several hundred microseconds.

The record breaking times were measured on the LSE’s Turquoise smaller dark pool trading venue, where trades are conducted anonymously. That network switched over to Linux from Cinnober technology two weeks ago. Speed is crucial as more firms trade automatically at lightning speed, using advanced algorithms.

http://www.computerworlduk.com/news/networking/3244936/london-stock-exchange-smashes-world-record-trade-speed-with-linux%22%22

[silversurfer44]

Thank you for that Eric.
Another one up for Linux. 

[tuftedduck]

RED ALERT

The Penguins are taking over the world....

[scottiesmum]

 

[silversurfer44]

If I ruled the world.....


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[roseway]

 

[jeffbb]

No point in clipping their wings either

Regards Jeff

[kitz]

hmmm interesting.

Remembers the time when most financial systems ran on *nix based machines.  iirc that seemed to change sometime in the early-mid 2000's.   
Supposedly for ease of user use/familiarity I presume, although no-one ever seemed to have problems with what was more like a CLI screen, rather than pretty GUI's back then.