[Info-vax] OT: Toronto considering using trading platform that closed London market for hours

[Michael Kraemer]

Phillip Helbig---undress to reply schrieb:

> Last week, I read in several different articles (which probably
> indicates the extent to which some journalist copy from
> others---including copying the errors)

why should one expect more ethics from them than
from our defense minister.

> that Deutsche Börse's XETRA
> (eXchange for Electronic TRAding) system runs on Red Hat Linux. 

Maybe they think every strange non-Windoze system
must be Linux.
But they also wrote that Xetra would probably
dumped in favor of Nyse's system and traders
wouldn't even care.

> This is
> not true and has never been true.  A quick internet search will indicate
> that XETRA runs on VMS and always has---be it testimonials at the HP
> website, white papers, whatever.