Archiv 4. Juli 2009

Samstag, 4. Juli 2009

LSE powered by Microsoft … er … Windows … er … .NET … er … SQL Server

Was kommt raus, wenn Microsoft zusammen mit einem Beratungsunternehmen Software schreibt?

Anyone who was ever fool enough to believe that Microsoft software was good enough to be used for a mission-critical operation had their face slapped this September when the LSE (London Stock Exchange)’s Windows-based TradElect system brought the market to a standstill for almost an entire day. […]

TradElect runs on HP ProLiant servers running, in turn, Windows Server 2003. The TradElect software itself is a custom blend of C# and .NET programs, which was created by Microsoft and Accenture, the global consulting firm. On the back-end, it relied on Microsoft SQL Server 2000. Its goal was to maintain sub-ten millisecond response times, real-time system speeds, for stock trades.

[…] the LSE’s competition […] was able to deliver that level of performance and in general it was running rings about TradElect. Three guesses what MarketPrizm runs on and the first two don’t count. The answer is Linux.

[…] I can only wonder how many other Windows enterprise software failures are kept hidden away within IT departments by companies unwilling to reveal just how foolish their decisions to rely on archaic, cranky Windows software solutions have proven to be.

I’m sure the LSE management couldn’t tell Linux from Windows without a techie at hand. They can tell, however, when their business comes to a complete stop in front of the entire world.

Quelle: London Stock Exchange to abandon failed Windows platform – Computerworld Blogs

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Samstag, 4. Juli 2009

Limewire Megafail

Eine Mitarbeiterin von Limewire (dem Hersteller eines gleichnamigen, schrottigen P2P Filesharing-Programm, das hierzulande noch von mindestens einer blonden Master of Law-Absolventin benutzt wird) hält eine Standpauke über Eigentumsrechte:

Woman: (didactically snobbish) We don’t want your money. No.  Enjoy the pizza, but you can’t steal other people’s things.  You can’t take what’s not yours

Quelle: Dovecote Records

Wer die Pointe nicht begreift: Mit Limewire werden täglich Millionen von urheberrechtlich geschützten Musik- und Filmtitel getauscht …

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Samstag, 4. Juli 2009

Der nächste Schritt in unserer Evolution – hat’s jemand bemerkt?!

Stephen Hawking: „Humans Have Entered a New Stage of Evolution“

Quelle: Stephen Hawking: „Humans Have Entered a New Stage of Evolution“

Sind wir vielleicht alle gerade Zeugen des Aufkommens des Homo sapiens facebookiensis?

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