New York stock exchange invests in Linux
THE NEW YORK Stock Exchange is investing a small fortune in the x86 Linux systems and blade servers.
According to ComputerWorld, the move is part of the expansion of the NYSE Hybrid Market trading system that the Exchange started building last year.
At the centre of it all are 200 of HP's ProLiant DL585 four-processor servers and 400 ProLiant BL685c blades with dual-core AMD Opteroons.
These work along side HP's Integrity NonStop servers, which are based on Intel Itanium processors and NonStop OS operating system.
While most people expect the Stockexchange to have cutting edge technology, the use of Linux is surprising the analysts.
The stock exchange has conservatively been running Unix since Spinola was a boy. With all that HP gear, most observers thought it might opt for HP-UX.
However, the bloke in charge of the project, Steve Rubinow said while Linux might not have the polish of Unix it is good enough and costs a lot less.
He said he did not want to be closely aligned with proprietary Unix. He also thinks the same thing about AIX and Solaris.
While Solaris can run on multiple hardware platforms, Linux gives him a lot of flexibility, he said. ยต
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Just as a quick note ...any proliant server..that ends in a 5 is amd based...
540 = intel 
545 = AMD
the first two are the series....
right now amd 545 G4 is eq to intel 540 G5 due to hp not using amd untill recently. a gen lower is same performance ~
"Opteroons" should be Opterons.


You think? News Ed.
A lot of financials are moving into Linux in a fair to large way. It's cheap, it's robust and they can (and do) check the source for backdoors etc. MS, HP, Sun don't have that sort of transparancy.
They should be 'Opterons', unless they're the 8-core variant, in which case 'Octoroons' would be acceptably vulgar and offensive.
I was just reading about Microsoft bragging that they handled NASDAQ, and how their technology is easier to install and maintain and provides lower TCO than Linux. Also ZDnet has some articles about Linux not being fit for much of anything besides fanboys.

Does this indicate that I've been misled? I was thinking that the Windows XP install disk crashing before doing anything was just their new way of keeping viruses off my computer.