Binary Bits: London Stock Exchange meltdown and more
It's been a busy week for Microsoft and I wanted to briefly note some other items that are making headlines elsewhere.
First of all, Microsoft says it is helping the London Stock Exchange investigate what cased a massive trading meltdown on Monday. ZDNet blogger Mary Jo Foley notes that Microsoft is among a small list of major tech providers to the exchange, a list that also includes HP and Accenture.
Foley and Microsoft blogger Long Zheng also both have items on Live Mesh apps. Foley notes that creating Mesh Apps is some of what Ray Ozzie's Startup Labs team has been up to, while Zheng posts a look at a demo Mesh app Microsoft created for making to-do lists.
We're clearly going to hear more about Mesh apps at the October Professional Developer Conference, where Microsoft is expected to release tools to let outsiders create their own Live Mesh programs. I don't think its any surprise that Microsoft is going to want to have some programs out of the gate that show consumers and developers that it is something worth spending their time on.
Meanwhile the good folks at Liveside.net take note of an update to Photosynth as well as spotting a new Microsoft beta: Microsoft Phone Data Manager, which helps synchronize contacts with certain (particularly Windows Mobile) cell phones.
During her years at CNET News, Ina Fried has changed beats several times, changed genders once, and covered both of the Pirates of Silicon Valley. These days, most of her attention is focused on Microsoft. E-mail Ina. 
Meanwhile, I can't resist noting that the Linux-run New York Stock Exchange is doing just fine with perfect uptime. I wonder if the PHB's were paying attention to the differences... I mean, this is pretty spectacular as an example of why a 100% MSFT solution is certainly not enterprise-ready.
Now in all fairness, even with 100% Windows, one can set up an infrastructure that can carry on in production, even if only in a limited fashion (you just have to have more machines is all, and don't rely on MSFT products to do CM or any kind of management on it, which is likely what blew up here). OTOH, IIRC Microsoft bragged on helping them set this creature up. Advertised the hell out of it. A real "success story" that turned out to be, no?
I notice a distinct absence of MSFT fanboys rushing in to defend this one as well. Where you at, boys? *snicker*.
/P
(who has just recently found himself in a position with a ton of MSFT products... gonna have to fix that. ;) ).
It doesn't take a white-paper analysis to figure out that no matter how it stacks up, MSFT is in deep reputational kimchi, esp. in light of all that braggartry over how they're sooo enterprise and mission-capable, right? (where do you think I got the term "five nines"? )
Meanwhile, I can't resist noting that the Linux-run New York Stock Exchange is doing just fine with perfect uptime. I wonder if the PHB's were paying attention to the differences... I mean, this is pretty spectacular as an example of why a 100% MSFT solution is certainly not enterprise-ready.
Now in all fairness, even with 100% Windows, one can set up an infrastructure that can carry on in production, even if only in a limited fashion (you just have to have more machines is all, and don't rely on MSFT products to do CM or any kind of management on it, which is likely what blew up here). OTOH, IIRC Microsoft bragged on helping them set this creature up. Advertised the hell out of it. A real "success story" that turned out to be, no?
I notice a distinct absence of MSFT fanboys rushing in to defend this one as well. Where you at, boys? *snicker*.
/P
(who has just recently found himself in a position with a ton of MSFT products... gonna have to fix that. ;) ).
I'd also point out that NASDAQ runs on Microsoft:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=21be8e1c-bb41-413a-9ce3-1bd7fddc59b4&displaylang=en
So stop your gloating...
- by David Gerard September 10, 2008 4:17 PM PDT
- I blame Patch Tuesday myself. http://tinyurl.com/56dvdt
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