What the hell? So when a driver of a Toyota car crashes into a tree it's Toyota at fault as opposed to the driver?
I have no idea why the author has decided to crowbar their own bias on platform preference into this article. There doesn't appear to be any information that states its the platform at fault.
Did Nasdaq get rid of the hp/tandem nonstop backends then? I don't think they did. As of 2008 they were still running them. They might have windows frontends and middle ware, though.
My first job in the Silicon Valley was on the Himalayas doing QA. They were awesome machines. QA meant pulling drives and cpus in the middle of processing, browning out/cutting power, etc.. it was wonderfully destructive :-)
I stopped reading at the point he described the existing solution as "a custom blend of C# and .NET programs." He obviously doesn't have a clue about the platform he's bashing.
I mean, I derive no pleasure from using bloated MS software myself (cough Outlook cough), but this guy clearly has an agenda that guides his reporting.
Agendas can be Ok, if you have a clue, and some idea of where the real story lies coughAccenturecough. Where I would start - What was the spec for the system? Did it change? What development method was used? was it agile? What test coverage did the system have? How many developers were on it, and how experienced were they?
Leaping from "a windows-based system failed" to "anyone ever fool enough to believe that Microsoft software was good enough" and mentioning .Net and MS SQL Server as specific examples is just moronic and ignorant.
I have no idea why the author has decided to crowbar their own bias on platform preference into this article. There doesn't appear to be any information that states its the platform at fault.