its a hot potato alright and as someone who worked on a project related to millenium IT i can say that sometimes i dont get their logic. definitely not straightforward.

so i see 3 parties to blame here
1. lse
2. the vendors
3. millenium it

i know the mentality of a stock exchange. they definitely do no not want to be in the wrong and scare investors away. having said that there is no humanly possible way (to my knowledge) of testing that replicates real live production use. during mock sessions you will find some vendors and or brokers would say they "already tested" and do not need the mock session thus removing several necessary variables from the testing (and also giving a pass on the updated api). and the data packets could be dropped any where along the route. (if something is wrong and you cant trace it - blame it on the firewall!) did anybody check if the backbone can support all the data that now comes with the increased speed?

the vendors would probably underestimate the level of complexity involved in programming a brand new api. which comes up to a very useful and important question: did ANYBODY at the vendor read the api before they even began the programming? and i already mentioned the updated api testing issue. and when i say vendors i also lump the exchange's own data vendor in the pot which by virtue of their relationship should actually have a leg up but human psychology being what it is ...

millenium it - in an effort to speed up their performance they use their own in house proprietary db before or after the data hits the oracle servers. what the.. ? oh and the db software is called nORA for "NOT oracle."

and finally, a project this big - heh - give me a million dollars if you can find somebody who understands the entire infrastructure, IT or business side of the project! why coz its not just one project, they probably rolled out their in house surveillance software at the same time.

i wont even talk about level of involvement of the government regulators ..

phew - years of pent up frustration coming out. but i pity the little guys there. yes they worked so hard and diligently and they did their part but because someone in some other team decided to take the easy route out .. well .. its get plastered all over the front pages dont it?

ps. dont bother with nda infringements as i am in no way related to the lse or millenium it or any of those vendors ;)

did novell lose their kernel guru or something?

oh! for crying out loud!
how many times do i have to say this:
now that (TWICE) novell owns the UNIX copyright what is it going to do?
in my opinion it should open source the damn thing!

that will end this farce and any future possibility of the grandson of sco or something other entity claiming ownership

disclaimer: IANAL

Amazing how posts get modded insightful even though they take no time to explain their possition.

Given the track record of Slashdot recently I could probably put this on every article and get modded up.

yes minister

But let me guess, the diamond river is running beneath the holy-land of a civilization of blue creatures, who will need to be eliminated using Blackwater mercenaries?

He is not insulting these janitor jobs. He is making the important point that neither STEM workers nor janitors have job security -- but there is a difference here. Janitors dont have to go to school for four years, constantly train in the latest technology, etc etc.

some troll s trying to rewrite history by saying that an error in PackageKit was the default behaviour for years

honestly speaking, how many people are going to read the manual?
i bought a hifi system and ditn read the manual.
i bought a microwave and dint read the manual.
i bought a television and dint read the manual

hell, way back when i was using windows, i dint read the manual.

i only use the documentation to solve problems i have with the software that is running or that i am installing. i dont read to learn, i read to implement a function. if the documentation is not sufficient i turn to google and the millions of linux users on the net. someone, somewhere out there has succesfully solved my problem previously

so whats the matter with the documentation?

and how does it keep itself clean from road kill, grime and just plain dirt, rain and dust?

funny funny funny -
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hey check it out .. you dont have to worry about that coz slashdot wont let you repeat it too many times!

this is a very interesting list.

it states the major operating systems targeted to the consumer are mac os, windows and linux. it also shows that 2 out of 3 consumer based operating systems are variants of unix.

go figure

umm.. you dint use latex for your master's thesis? what school did you graduate from ?

and that was funny .. how?
being from the middle east .. i dont see the joke

Ignorance is NOT bliss

http://www.amazon.com/Bible-Quran-Science-Scriptures-translated/dp/0935782494