OK, why am I really not surprised? ComputerWorld is reporting that the LSE have finally decided to ditch a crappy windows based TradElect system in light of serious failures culminating in nearly a day’s out time. When are people going to understand that the fundamental philosophy that windows is built on does not suit an enterprise mission critical server environment like this.

For example how can security through obscurity and locked down closed source systems still be in place in such important infrastructure. All the evidence points towards the fact that these systems suffer a massively greater number of security breaches than their opensource counterparts.

Then there’s the issue of performance. How can the LSE sit back and accept that their targets for latency have been no where near met whilst rivals enjoy far superior products? It’s about time people woke up. I really hope many onlookers will learn something here.

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