[AccessD] Another software disaster...

Thanks for that mention of disaster for two very high rate charging companies.
No excuse. They failed to stress test this early in development.

The problem that Nasdaq witnessed was a result of too many orders...most of 
them cancels of original orders.
Had they known this could have happened, they could have lowered the priority 
of the cancel orders....and moved them to the end of the queue. The volume of 
cancel orders caused the regular orders to be delayed in their fulfillment.
Bottomline: poor analysis...this scenario should have been thought out from 
the beginning.
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> The London Stock Exchange had to scrap a botched and unstable £40
> million upgrade of their systems based on C#, .NET and SQL server by
> Microsoft and Accenture. They've now successfully replaced it with SUSE
> Linux and are trading faster than anyone else at the moment.
>
> http://mobile.computerworlduk.com/news/open-source/3260727/london-
> stock-exchange-in-historic-linux-go-live/
>
> So, it's very possible that it's not running on such old technology,
> but rather new technology. But, as we all know, all new technology
> brings the possibility of problems, bugs and glitches.