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BTW, if you want financial institutions, both the Nasdaq and the London Stock Exchange (www.londonstockexchange.com) run on Microsoft Windows. :) As for Amazon, Barnes and Noble (bn.com) run their online business on Windows too. Posting HTML

At least do some research first, Amazon runs Linux/Apache.

NASDAQ is now IIS6, but look at that poor uptime. BTW, it's critical systems that actually run everything and feed the web site are Linux and other *NIXes.

London: You want to talk about horrible downtime! That thing's barely ever up! But the big daddy of exchanges, the NYSE, Windows can't do that -- they need the power of AIX/Apache. Banks? Go with the biggest, CitiCorp, running Solaris/Netscape.

YOu and I are wasting bandwidth here. The man thinks windows runs the internet when structurally without UNIX the internet would stop tomorrow (sure eventually they would get it back) where as if all windows boxes dropped of the internet only individule companies would be affected. I pointed out the uptimes to him in the GP but he just ignored it.

We run a windows os with iplanet to the outside world but that proxies over to our big important boxes which are *NIX (though we do have a couple of MSSQL servers for light weight apps. If not for politics I would replace our main webserver with Linux running apache tomorrow it would save me the trouble that 6 or seven reboots a year cause..

"At least do some research first, Amazon runs Linux/Apache"

Never said Amazon run on Windows.
Read that post again, will you?
I said bn.com runs on Windows.
Is this the best you can do? Bring in quotes that don't exist?

"NASDAQ is now IIS6, but look at that poor uptime. ....
London: You want to talk about horrible downtime! "

You guys keep bringing that rubbish from the European Netcraft funnies up.
Like I said before, its irrelevant.
I use the Nasdaq site all the time.
I don't really remember the last time Nasdaq was actually down.
In fact Nasdaq has been growing from strength to strength on the back of Windows servers. That is what matters.
Same with the London Stock Exchange (I used to live in London and have traded British stocks for over 10 years)

"But the big daddy of exchanges, the NYSE, "

Operative word here is big daddy which should read granddaddy.
Practically all the hot, dynamic, cutting edge tech companies are on the Nasdaq.
In fact the Dow Industrial Index was forced to add in Nasdaq stocks like Microsoft and Intel into the Dow 30 just to remain relevant.
Even Google is on Nasdaq.
Guess which stock exchange represents the future.