The New York Stock Exchange and its European subsidiary exchanges are running their trading systems on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat announced Wednesday, as it unveiled a new marquee customer.

Linux has been known to be in use at several New York financial services firms, but few have stepped up to the podium to testify on the value of their implementations. As a result of mergers and acquisitions, the New York Stock Exchange has migrated over the last few years from HP-UX to IBM AIX to Sun Solaris to Linux. NYSE Group CIO Steve Rubinow said the conversion to Linux followed the acquisition of the Euronext exchange in 2007. Unlike some trading companies that suggest Linux is running their secondary systems, Rubinow emphasized that Linux is running the NYSE's mission-critical trading systems.

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Interesting story, here's the link to the "Printable View": http://news.yahoo.com/s/cmp/20080515...1Ik.oACSA4k4gC

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Also please consider either posting only 1 "master" news story link post per day or space your news story link posts better in time -- today you "grabbed" 3 of the 25 precious slots in the daily "LinuxQuestions.org Zero Reply Threads" e-mail, so there are at least 2 worthy threads that did not come to my attention as a result.