New subject: London Stock Exchange dumps Windows for Linux

8 Oct 2009


      I'd love to see a linux based electronic medical record system.
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From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On
Behalf Of Jestin Stoffel
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Sent: Thursday, October 08, 2009 2:47 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: London Stock Exchange dumps Windows for Linux
This is a huge win for Linux, but I always find these stories to be
bittersweet.  Anyone "in the know" is already aware that Linux is great
for enterprise and server level applications, but I'd prefer to see a
big win for the Linux desktop.  Where is the "Corporation X Switches all
Desktops to Linux" story I've been waiting to hear?  There have been a
few, but just not enough.
On Thu, 2009-10-08 at 14:32 -0500, Christofer C. Bell wrote:
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On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 2:22 PM, Greg Mischel Smith [email protected]
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Apparently they got tired of the Windows problems.
-Greg Smith (GregMS)
http://blogs.computerworld.com/14876/london_stock_exchange_dumps_windows_for...
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By: Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
In the end, the LSE and its traders will profit from this move. As Steve
George, director of corporate services at Canonical (the company
behindUbuntu) told me when we talked about the deal. "When
performance and
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stability matters, as they do in business, Linux is the positive choice.
This move will be good both for the LSE and its customers and to the
wider
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family of Linux."
I think this is the most interesting comment in the post.  Does this
imply that this new platform is running on Ubuntu or were they just
looking for a Linux "talking head" to comment?

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