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Meet the People Who Have Trillions Riding on Linux this Fall
July 15, 2008 (2:00:00 PM) - 1 year, 3 months ago
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If you work around Linux regularly, in some ways the latest amazing news is… not that amazing. The New York Stock Exchange, where the world’s largest public companies trade their stocks, is now running on Linux. (Microsoft is not listed on the NYSE; they trade on the NASDAQ. Now *that* would have been a fun headline…) In addition the Chicago Mercantile Exchange also runs on Linux. While perhaps not as famous as the NYSE, the CME is one of the largest exchanges in the world. Even the Tokyo Stock Exchange is running on Linux.
Read more at: linux-foundation.org
Meet the People Who Have Trillions Riding on Linux this Fall
Posted by: Dummy00001 on July 15, 2008 02:56 PMNYSE use RHEL which is best described as fork of Linux. It never being a secret that RHEL (as RHL was in past) is so heavily patched that it is literally different OS.
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