Swiftness of Dow drop due to computers

[Eric J. Feldhusen]

Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Sunday 04 March 2007, jim tate wrote:
>> Checking http://netcraft.com it was either a Solaris or $Windows
>> 2000,2003 computer caused the big drop in stock market last week. click
>> below.
>>
>> http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070228/ap_on_bi_ge/wall_street_what_happened

Just because the public website of the NYSE are running on either 
Solaris or Windows, that doesn't have any relevance to what operating 
systems power the internal trading system.  What's more interesting in 
that article, considering part of the problem is blamed on the trading 
system server, is that the article specifically doesn't mention what 
powers the internal trading system of the NYSE.

Eric