Linux has become the smart stock market’s operating system of choice. Red Hat has been working with TSE and Fujitsu for some time on the Arrowhead platform.

On one day in December of 1999, VA Linux, a company with just 200 employees, shattered the record for a single day IPO. The stock, initially priced at $30, closed at $239, a 700 percent run-up.

Even Microsoft benefited from Linux's streamlined and efficient architecture to power its Internet of Things (IoT) devices.In other words, MSFT stock wins as long as Microsoft is somehow involved ...

Two years ago, the London Stock Exchange (LSE) with its TradElec Windows-based C# and .NET programs crashed and took out the Exchange for almost 7-hours. That’s an eternity in stock market terms.

After their download, many people still had work to do to crop or resize or add a filter to their images,” said Catherine Ulrich, Chief Product Officer. “Those edits were taking place elsewhere.

This caused Red Hat stock to drop by $4.68 on Thursday, closing at $14.83 — the biggest one-day price drop since the company went public in 1999. As of 2 p.m. on Friday, Red Hat’s stock had ...