18 April 2008

Linux Ready for Real-time Computing in Financial Services

Is Linux capable of handling the mission-critical, high-volume demands of the world's biggest financial institutions? Speakers at the recent sixth annual Linux on Wall Street conference offered solid evidence in the affirmative, despite unresolved issues concerning real-time Linux and hypervisor interoperability.

Vinod Kutty, the distributed computing R&D head at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME), now the CME Group, and a conference speaker, believes that Linux is ready for mission-critical, financial services workloads.

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