The problem is that the LSE can't hire top tier talent. There are plenty of people who are experts in building hugely concurrent and fail-safe exchange software, and they pretty much all work for investment banks.<p>The LSE can't afford to compete with $1000/day salaries so they end up hiring second-tier developers. And unfortunately second-tier developers are a lot lot worse than first-tier developers.
Does anyone know if this halt is related to the recent switch over to the new Linux based platform? (<a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=686116" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=686116</a>)
"And as a final note, solely for the seriously nerdy techies, there's been some talk about the failure being due to F# error."<p><a href="http://ftalphaville.ft.com/marketslive/" rel="nofollow">http://ftalphaville.ft.com/marketslive/</a>
this is the official place for updates, although its not very responsive at the moment,probably due to load
<a href="http://liveservice.londonstockexchangegroup.com/en/incidents/active/lse" rel="nofollow">http://liveservice.londonstockexchangegroup.com/en/incidents...</a>