bawawawa - linux infestation at LSE shuts down Italian stock exchange.

On Friday 25 February 2011 12:54 One-Shot; One-Kill wrote:

http://www.computerworlduk.com/news...ses-borsa-

italiana-halts-trading-after-price-information-glitch/

UPDATE Borsa Italiana, the Milan trading venue owned by the London Stock
Exchange, halted trading this morning after problems on its price data
feeds.

As of 15.50 CET (14.50 UK time), Borsa Italiana trading has reopened,

after

most of its platforms were closed all morning and the derivatives platform
spent nearly four hours offline. The results of an investigation into the
problem, which this morning was described by Borsa Italiana as "a

technical

issue on the price information systems", have not been disclosed.

It's a bit confusing, isn't it? Perhaps you can give us your views on the
following

You see, it goes on to say:-

"Borsa Italiana runs on the TradElect system, based on Microsoft .Net and
written in C#, recently dumped by the LSE in favour of Millennium Exchange,
written in C++ and based on Novell SUSE Linux servers. The LSE has also been
experiencing price data feed problems on its own replacement system, but
these issues are thought to be unrelated"