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Get the Facts II: Electric Boogaloo
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| Back in the dark ages of the early 2000s,
| Microsoft ran a misleading FUD campaign
| against Linux under the âGet the Factsâ
| banner.
|
| It looks like âWhy Microsoftâ is the not-
| much-anticipated sequel, where â in
| concert with a blog running cutting edge
| 3.5-year old software â Microsoft will
| again FUD, mislead and distort as it
| attacks alternatives to its proprietary
| lock-in-rich offerings â including some
| Open Source contenders like Open
| Office.org.
|
| The Present
|
| As the Gentle and Return Reader knows, one
| of my favorite past times is pointing out
| fallicies, distortions or downright lies.
| The entire âWhy Microsoftâ site is chock-
| full, but letâs just look at a few from
| the âSo, Youâre Considering
| OpenOffice.orgâ PDF Microsoft offers.
|
| [...]
|
| More of the same, of course. Present
| tactics are the same as the past tactics,
| save that Microsoft has gotten a little
| bit more clever in concealing its
| intentions.
|
| This is just another example of Microsoft
| FUDing an Open Source competitor. I guess
| thatâs alright if you are involved in a
| bit of FUD against OpenOffice.org
| yourself, but personally I donât approve.
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http://www.the-source.com/2010/03/get-the-facts-ii-electric-boogaloo/
Time To Rebut The IIPA's FUD Against Open Source
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| A recent blog posting at The Guardian
| about the US "Special 301" rules has
| generated deep concern around the global
| open source community. It points (via a
| blog posting by Edinburgh University law
| lecturer Andres Guadamuz) to this year's
| recommendations from the controversially-
| named International Intellectual Property
| Alliance, which describes itself as "a
| private sector coalition... of trade
| associations representing U.S. copyright-
| based industries" - namely
|
| "the Association of American
| Publishers (AAP), the Business
| Software Alliance (BSA), the
| Entertainment Software Association
| (ESA), the Independent Film &
| Television Alliance (IFTA), the Motion
| Picture Association of America (MPAA),
| the National Music Publishers'
| Association (NMPA) and the Recording
| Industry Association of America
| (RIAA)".
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http://opensource.org/node/510
Recent:
London Stock Exchange takes Â20m hit on almost redundant TradElect platform
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| The often troubled TradElect system remains five | times slower than rivals' reported speeds. It
| was upgraded in 2008 by Accenture at a cost of
| Â40 million, is based around Microsoft .Net
| architecture and runs on HP ProLiant servers
| with Cisco networking technology.
|
| It is due to be replaced at the end of next year
| by an open source based platform built by
| MillenniumIT, which the LSE acquired in
| September for Â18 million.
|
| [...]
|
| The system is aimed at saving the LSE over Â10
| million a year from 2012. It will also bring in-
| house the LSEâs software development, provide
| âdedicated research and development supportâ,
| and offer new revenue streams by selling
| technology to other financial markets.
|
| Profits at the stock exchange tumbled for the
| six months by 37 percent to Â79 million. The
| exchange reiterated that it hopes an ongoing
| cost cutting exercise and management restructure
| will save it over Â11 million a year.
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http://www.computerworlduk.com/technology/networking/messaging/news/index.cfm?newsid=17751
London Stock Exchange trading hit by technical glitch
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| Trading on the London Stock Exchange (LSE) has
| been brought to a halt by technical
| difficulties.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8380607.stm
London Stock Exchange trading hit by data glitch
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| Technical problems led to the suspension of
| trading in some FTSE 100 stocks on the London
| Stock Exchange this morning.
|
| [...]
|
| Last month, the LSE announced it will acquire
| Sri Lankan trading firm Millennium IT for Â18
| million, replacing its Accenture built,
| Microsoft .Net-based TradElect platform. The new
| platform is understood to be based on Linux.
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http://www.computerworlduk.com/management/infrastructure/applications/news/index.cfm?newsid=17077
London Stock Exchange in talks to buy Turquoise Trading technology
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| Last month, the LSE announced it will acquire Sri Lankan
| trading firm Millennium IT for Â18 million, replacing its
| Accenture built, Microsoft .Net-based TradElect platform.
| The new platform is understood to be based on Linux.
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http://www.computerworlduk.com/management/it-business/it-organisation/news/index.cfm?newsid=16883
London Stock Exchange grabs rival
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| The London Stock Exchange is in exclusive talks to buy
| Project Turquoise, the rival trading platform set up by
| nine banks in order to push down transaction fees.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/10/02/lse_turquoise_talks/
About that London Stock Exchange IT failure
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| All of which should have you wonder what Linux has to do with any of this -
| Microsoftâs headline, youâll recall said that the LSE picked Windows over
| Linux for reliability.
|
| The answer is that Linux has nothing to do with any of this: Microsoft simply
| hung an anti-Linux label on a very carefully worded story about a pair of
| committed Microsoft partners, HP and Accenture, getting together with
| Microsoft to sell rather simple technology to a willing customer - and
| neither Linux nor Solaris is mentioned anywhere in the text.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/Murphy/?p=1242
Furse should not resign, she should be sacked
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| Comment The farce of the London Stock Exchange not only crashing but failing
| to get its systems up and running again should surprise no one.
|
| Well, no one except LSE boss Clara Furse, who demonstrates little
| understanding that technology is crucial to her business.
|
| Iâve worked for members of the London Stock Exchange and everyone agrees she
| is world-class at corporate presentations, but the evidence that she can
| actually run things is rather harder to come by.
|
| No one expects her to write FIX handlers, or optimise an order-matching
| engine, but her yes-men simply were not in the position to make any
| intelligent decisions on technology, if we look at the board of the LSE.
|
| Do we see anything that even looks like experience in technology? No. We see
| three from the media, and of course accountancy, but no mention of
| technology.
|
| To be sure, the CIO (not on the board) is ex-Accenture man David Lester. To a
| Reg reader, Accenture will be associated in the context of technology with
| the words âscrew upâ, âlateâ, and âover budgetâ. Clara Furse cannot be held
| responsible for problems with Cisco switches - one of the suggested
| culprits - but she is absolutely in the frame for the choice of senior
| management and strategic vendors.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/09/13/furse_lse_comment/
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