While reading Slashdot just now, I was attracted with this news. Neverheless, I don’t suprise to see the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) is moving from Mainframe to AIX & Linux.
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The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) is migrating off a 1,600 millions of instructions per second (MIPS) mainframe to IBM System p servers running AIX and x86 Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) servers running Linux, with the first part of the move going live today.
Francis Feldman, the vice president of the shared data center for Securities Industry Automation Corp. (SIAC), the NYSE’s technology arm, said the bottom line for the migration was the bottom line. He estimates the move will halve the cost of transactions, and though he wouldn’t detail how much that would mean on a yearly basis, he said it is “serious financial savings, very serious.”
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.“The mainframe simply did not make sense,” Feldman said. “For the type of work we run, we found price points that were more attractive on different platforms.”
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In came Oakbrook Terrace, Ill.-based Clerity Solutions Inc., which focuses on legacy migrations. To test Clerity, Feldman and his team collected some batch and CICS application code, sent it to Clerity and said he would be at Clerity’s development center in 24 hours to see the results. Clerity passed.Clerity uses its UniKix software to ingest the mainframe code and compile it to run on a distributed platform. The recompilation is then tested in the company before it goes live. The AIX platform executes the application of the recompiled code while the Linux boxes handles FTP transfers on the front end. 1Feldman wouldn’t disclose what Linux distribution was running on the HP servers.
[1] What do you think, RHEL or SLES? I guess it must be RHEL ;)
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