In the most recent issue of Auotomated Trader Magazine there is a  great article about the LSE (London Stock Exchange) and their trading infrastructure infrastructure. It is almost unheard of for ‘finance’ to turn to Microsoft’s .net on the server – but the LSE has apparently adopted .net and windows ! Excellent read. Interestingly – they said that Microsoft’s stong desire to ‘get into’ the finance area like this gave them an excellent relationship with MS. Their system is not released yet – but it shold be soon enough. They mentioned they should start with 50% more capacity than their historically highest volume day. They also said that they could add capacity overnight should their needs vastly increase – as we all imagine it will.

Kudos to the LSE for going MS – guts! I hope it works out for them.
-Chris

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