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

[Phillip Helbig---undress to reply]

In article <ikb4qv$kdj$02$1 at news.t-online.com>, Michael Kraemer
<M.Kraemer at gsi.de> writes: 

> > 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.

I don't.

> > 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.

Perhaps.

> But they also wrote that Xetra would probably
> dumped in favor of Nyse's system 

That is still undecided.

> and traders
> wouldn't even care.

Probably some would.  A few expressed fears about the possibility of 
losing "the better system" (XETRA).