<story><title>London Stock Exchange smashes world record trade speed with Linux</title><url>http://www.computerworlduk.com/news/networking/3244936/london-stock-exchange-smashes-world-record-trade-speed-with-linux/?cmpid=sbycombinatorrplant</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>whatajoke</author><text>Is this the same system that replaced the failed Microsoft platform? &lt;a href=&quot;http://blogs.computerworld.com/london_stock_exchange_to_abandon_failed_windows_platform&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blogs.computerworld.com/london_stock_exchange_to_aban...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Microsoft had run huge ads on how LSE was using .NET and Windows in critical financial applications. Within a year LSE had suffered crashes in the same critical areas.</text></comment>
<story><title>London Stock Exchange smashes world record trade speed with Linux</title><url>http://www.computerworlduk.com/news/networking/3244936/london-stock-exchange-smashes-world-record-trade-speed-with-linux/?cmpid=sbycombinatorrplant</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>lrm242</author><text>World record? Not quite. Let&apos;s see full details on the numbers. NASDAQ publishes their latency numbers weekly, including average, 99th percentile, and 99.9th percentile: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nasdaqtrader.com/trader.aspx?id=inet&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.nasdaqtrader.com/trader.aspx?id=inet&lt;/a&gt;. Their average latency on order entry is 98 microseconds and their average latency on market data is 92 microseconds. Perhaps by &quot;world record&quot; they mean &quot;european record&quot;.</text></comment>