Linux Success Story: New York Stock Exchange Moves to Linux

Linux Success Story: New York Stock Exchange Moves to Linux

The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), is the largest stock exchange in the world. NYSE wants to move away from proprietary platforms, so they selected HP hardware with Linux.

NYSE is investing heavily in x86-based Linux systems and blade servers as it builds out the NYSE Hybrid Market trading system that it launched last year. Flexibility and lower cost are among the goals. But one of the things that NYSE Euronext CIO Steve Rubinow says he most wants from the new computing architecture is technology independence. The NYSE has installed about 200 of HP's ProLiant DL585 four-processor servers and 400 of its ProLiant BL685c blades, all running Linux and based on dual-core Opteron processors from Advanced Micro Devices Inc.

=> New York Stock Exchange Moves to Linux (Image credit: Wikipedia)

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1 Dmitri Jakovlev 12.20.07 at 1:57 pm

It was meant to happen someday with NYSE old stock exchange platforms administrator had to struggle with every machine because of large l number of bugs. Linux build customer trust over the years with their free operating system and now its time for them to move further into more professional fields of work.

2 Ray Pellecchia 12.25.07 at 1:51 am

My compliments on your post. If you or your readers would like to see more about the NYSE Hybrid Market, I run a blog for NYSE Euronext at

Thanks and keep on blogging!

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