NET/Microsoft detractors got an early Christmas present recently when the London Stock Exchange, under a relatively new CEO , decided to dump their .NET/SQL Server –based trading platform , TradElect, to replace it with the product of a being-acquired company . On Slashdot, news of this was submitted and accepted as “ London Stock Exchange Rejects .NET for Open Source ”, with the additional claim that “ The switch is a pretty savage indictment of the costs of a complex .NET system. ” The Digg submitter went with the title “ London Stock Exchange dumps Windows for Linux ” — which they took directly from the linked article — with the description “ Fed up with Windows' failures, one of world's major stock exchanges is joining many others in making the switch to reliable Linux “. The heavily-linked columnist in both cases is a... [read full story]
