LSE on Linux now

[xchaotic]

Article here
That's great news in my view as I've always tried to stay away from M$.
But I wonder in terms of local contract in London, is it going to create a lot of work, have these posts already been filled in?

I think I could quite a nice gig, with a little bit of work here and maybe a little travel to Sri Lanka...

[Sysman]

Deutsche Boerse have also gone Linux recently.

Linux powers world's fastest stock exchange

[suityou01]

Deutsche Boerse have also gone Linux recently.

Linux powers world's fastest stock exchange

32 bit OS on a 64 bit architecture perchance? Tis the future.

[darmstadt]

A fair bit of the Deutsche Bahn is also Linux (albeit the mainframe version) and I work on the largest Linux system here in Germany for parts of the government, also mainframe based. There are some very big names on the continent using Linux on mainframes due to saving costs. I only need one machine and I can run hundreds of Linux images

[Scary]

32 bit OS on a 64 bit architecture perchance? Tis the future.

Thought there was a 64bit version of RHEL, are they not using that?

[DimPrawn]

Looks like the future is Linux folks.

You all better jump on that bandwagon.

Ride that Linux gravy train.

Toot-toot!

It's the .Notters I feel sorry for.

[portseven]

Looks like the future is Linux folks.

You all better jump on that bandwagon.

Ride that Linux gravy train.

Been on the bandwagon for 12 years now, first used linux professionally in 1997.

Send all gig offers here...

[Sysman]

Been on the bandwagon for 12 years now, first used linux professionally in 1997.

Send all gig offers here...

When I was looking for that Deutsche Boerse article I came up with quite a few Linuxy sounding vacancies with them.

[darmstadt]

32 bit OS on a 64 bit architecture perchance? Tis the future.

Hmmm, well we're running 64 bit Linux on 64 bit architecture as 32 bit Linux OS won't run on it

[pzz76077]

I dont think that they are moving just to Linux, they are moving to application software that is already operating in may similar environments around the world.

The other key point is that they are also moving to cheap development teams in the far east and away from Accenture (read into that what you like).


The big question that remains unanswered is who in their right mind ever thought that .Net could ever be utilized to build a successful high throughput, real time transaction platform?? That kind of application is way outside its pay grade IMV.

PZZ