A few years ago, the LSE (London Stock Exchange) needed new servers. They decided to use Microsoft Windows. They only forgot one little thing : Windows is not and has never been a server product. LSE needed one full day of downtime to understand it. They are now dropping Windows : “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.” wrote Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols in his Computerworld blog.
Microsoft develop software since forever – or at least 20 years. They have done a few achievements, like Visio (oops, somebody else did it), or Excel (oops, the Spreadsheet was invented by Visicalc). In fact, they haven’t produced a lot of real new stuff. They only inflicted poorly-designed, insecure and expensive products to the masses.
Now, everyone using personal computers think it is normal to pay a lot of money to get unstable and poorly designed products. Last example : PC vendors pushes us large, 16×9 screens. Our screen get wider, or less high, if you prefer. At the same time, Microsoft gives us (oops, sells us) Office 2007, with 1/4 of the screen height used by the menus. Go figure. On my side, I have dropped the ball in 1997, now using Linux on the server, and Linux and OS X on the client. Thinks about it and act, like LSE. And by the way, here is the uptime of my customer’s main NMS server. 2 years, 9 months and something. No issue so far.
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