Sometime last year, Microsoft released an ad campaign with fake newspaper headlines from a periodical called the “The Highly Reliable Times”. With today’s news about the London Stock Exchange having a 7 hour outage I had to think back and laugh. Exhibit A: “London Stock Exchange Chooses Windows over Linux for Reliability” Exhibit B: ‘Doh! Here’s the Reuters story, and the Slashdot link. [ Read more ]