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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Subject: Windows =?UTF-8?B?U2VydmVy4oCZcw==?= Greatest Moment
Date: Thu, 9 May 2024 22:12:25 -0000 (UTC)
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Time to revisit the episode that totally and finally made clear that 
“Windows Server” and “reliability” could never go together: the London 
Stock Exchange débâcle of 2007-2011.

Microsoft made a big deal out of the fact that the LSE’s TradElect system 
was built on Windows Server with DotNet, instead of using Linux. They put 
out a lovely ad (which I still have a copy of) showing a fake newspaper 
called “The Highly Reliable Times”, with the headline “LONDON STOCK 
EXCHANGE CHOOSES WINDOWS OVER LINUX FOR RELIABILITY”. This was part of 
their “Get The Facts” campaign to try to destroy Linux.

It didn’t work. The LSE suffered outage after outage, always at peak 
trading times. Finally the CEO was replaced, and the new boss chucked out 
the Windows servers and brought in a new system called Millennium 
Exchange, built on Linux.

And they haven’t had anywhere near the same trouble since.

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TradElect>