LSE trading suspended

[Sysman]

Explanation

Let's not forget what happened on the 8th September 2008

LONDON (Reuters) - The London Stock Exchange (LSE.L) suffered its worst systems failure in eight years on Monday, forcing the world's third largest share market to suspend trading for about seven hours and infuriating its users.

In a former existence I was privy to the details of the one eight years previously. Yes there was a human cockup (and a fix was suggested to make sure it didn't happen again), but the length of the outage came from a lack of management decision to bite the bullet and roll back early enough.

But that was before the Microsoft/Accenture thingy.