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    The largest exchange, the NYSE (New York Stock Exchange) Euronext, <a

href="http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9053008/NYSE_places_buy_on_Linux_hold_on_Unix"

      target="_blank">is run on a Linux system</a> that can generate

    1,500,000 quotes and process 250,000 orders every second, offering

    acknowledgments of each transaction within two milliseconds.<br>

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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.infoworld.com/d/open-source-software/how-linux-mastered-wall-street-169885?source=IFWNLE_nlt_openenterprise_2011-08-17">http://www.infoworld.com/d/open-source-software/how-linux-mastered-wall-street-169885?source=IFWNLE_nlt_openenterprise_2011-08-17</a>

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"Gun control is like trying to reduce drunk driving by making it 

tougher for sober people to own cars." - Unknown

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