NYSE Goes To Linux

Aligrip writes "It appears that IBM has convinced the folks at the Securities Industry Automation Corp (SIAC) to move their entire trading network to Linux as explained in this article in the Investors Business Daily. The authors predict that this deal could give Linux "a hot new beachhead with financial institutions". Cool!"

Finally, a place for hackers...

[ameoba]

Finally, a place for hackers at banks that doesn't involve maintaining 30yr old Cobol programs!

Wow...score one more HUGE client for IBM.

[mystery_bowler]

By the way, this wouldn't happen to have anything to do with the semi-recent stock market crashes, reportedly due to NT? What was the final say on that stuff? Was it really NT?

Re:FUDproof!!

[The_Messenger]

Simple... coming soon to an MSN owned subsidiary near you: "NYSE Trading Systems Unreliable, says Independant Mindcraft Report."

Re:Not bad, but not as big as one might think.

[Anonymous Coward]

plus an IBM mainframe (also mentioned in the article) presumably running IBM mainframe OS (can't remember the name)

OS/390? No, it'll probably be running Linux. Maybe as a bunch of VM's, or maybe on the bare metal

) with mayby Linus as 'Virtual OS' of each 'Virtual Machine'.

How does Linus feel about this? I've heard Alan Cox scales better on heavy iron by the way, maybe they should just throw him on the VM's

Re:I hope...

[Anonymous Coward]

Yep. It's sorta like 'wow man, the grandstand is held together by bolts from the Ace Bolt Company! NASCAR is run by the Ace Bolt Company! Cool! I want those in MY car!'

An opportunity for marketing hype. Nothing more.

Uh oh

[evilviper]

Look, the Microsoft stock prices are dropping to 0. Oh well, must be a bug in the system. INSERT EVIL LAUGH HERE