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London Stock Exchange To Abandon Windows 438

Posted by timothy on Friday July 03, 2009 @09:24AM from the don't-weld-shut-the-doors-then dept.

BBCWatcher writes "Computerworld's Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols reports that the London Stock Exchange is abandoning its Microsoft Windows-based trading platform: 'Anyone who was ever fool enough to believe that Microsoft software was good enough to be used for a mission-critical operation had their face slapped this September when the LSE's Windows-based TradElect system brought the market to a standstill for almost an entire day .... Sources at the LSE tell me to this day that the problem was with TradElect ...'"

Comment Re:Drat you Steve! (Score 1) 820

by monsul on Friday October 17, 2008 @12:08PM (#25413733) Attached to: Users Rage Over Missing FireWire On New MacBooks

For every bad mac - good pc comparison, there's a good mac - bad pc. Anecdotal evidence proves nothing. When will people learn this?

Free Online Scientific Repository Hits Milestone 111

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday October 08, 2008 @10:24AM from the a-whole-lotta-smart-stuff dept.

ocean_soul writes "Last week the free and open access repository for scientific (mainly physics but also math, computer sciences...) papers arXiv got past 500,000 different papers, not counting older versions of the same article. Especially for physicists, it is the number-one resource for the latest scientific results. Most researchers publish their papers on arXiv before they are published in a 'normal' journal. A famous example is Grisha Perelman, who published his award-winning paper exclusively on arXiv."

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