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Re: About that London Stock Exchange IT failure

Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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____/ Steve de Mena on Wednesday 17 September 2008 19:30 : \____

Ramon F Herrera wrote:
Microsoft crashes the London Stock Exchange...  again.

"It’s the third one in a year and worse even than last year’s November
8th failure. "

http://blogs.zdnet.com/Murphy/?p=1242&tag=nl.e539

-RFH

Maybe you can point to where in the article the cause of the outages
was determined to be Microsoft?

Steve

"The London Stock Exchange Group PLC said Tuesday that a software glitch - and
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not high trading volumes - was to blame for a seven-hour shutdown that angered
customers on one of the busiest days of the year on world equity markets."

"The LSE, which is facing increasing competition from new European trading platforms, also attempted to reassure traders unhappy about the blackout, saying that it had changed the software programming so that a similar problem would not have such a huge effect."

Sounds like a bug in the program they wrote. How is this a Microsoft OS of Microsoft application issue?

Steev

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