Archipelago moves to Sun to power electronic stock exchange

By Linda Rosencrance, Computerworld 28 February 2003 URL: http://www.computerworld.com/industrytopics/financial/story/0,10801,78936,00.html Archipelago LLC is migrating its Nasdaq-listed stocks from its current electronic communications network (ECN) to a new platform that runs on hardware from Sun Microsystems Inc. Archipelago's current ECN runs on "a pretty highly distributed Microsoft/Intel platform" with Windows 2000, said Steve Rubinow, chief technology officer at Chicago-based … Continue reading Archipelago moves to Sun to power electronic stock exchange →

Archipelago Picks Sun Servers For OTC Stock Trading, Replacing Microsoft/Intel Machines

By Ivy Schmerken, Wall Street & Technology Online 27 February 2003 (12:58 PM) URL: http://www.wallstreetandtech.com/story/WST20030227S0009 Archipelago is migrating its OTC stock trading business over to Sun Microsystems Unix-based servers, abandoning the Microsoft NT/Intel platform. Sun's track record coupled with cost savings as well as security and reliability were factors in the decision. In a move to cut … Continue reading Archipelago Picks Sun Servers For OTC Stock Trading, Replacing Microsoft/Intel Machines →

Chicken Soup for Computer Viruses

When Archipelago needed a fast, reliable, scalable platform to reach its goal of becoming the first fully open, fully electronic stock exchange—a platform that wouldn't get sick whenever a new virus came along—there was just one answer. URL: http://www.sun.com/br/financial_svcs_421/article_archipelago.html Choosing a new platform for their electronic communications network (ECN) was, say the folks at the … Continue reading Chicken Soup for Computer Viruses →

Net CIO: Technology Becomes Power

By Cate T. Corcoran, The Industry Standard 25 January 1999 URL:http://216.239.51.100/search?q=cache:7ANDrde83v4C:www.thestandard.com/article/0,1902,3231,00.html+Net+CIO:+Technology+Becomes+Power&hl=en&start=1&ie=UTF-8 The Internet has brought computer types out of the basement and into the boardroom, and nowhere is that more apparent than in the changing role of the Net company's CIO. For the first time, information technology folks are moving out of careers that narrowly focus … Continue reading Net CIO: Technology Becomes Power →

Web Access – Just Browsing, Thanks

Web access to a data warehouse is a tempting innovation, but uncertainties of the Internet dictate caution before opening the store to all comers By Heath Row, CIO Magazine 1 October 1996 URL: http://www.cio.com/archive/100196_browsing.html Leonard Luckless, a road warrior for Illstar Inc. of Erewhon, N.J., carries a laptop but has to call a support team for up-to-the … Continue reading Web Access – Just Browsing, Thanks →

Express Analysis

Why Fidelity Investment execs use IRI's Express OLAP software to view financial data from many angles By Gael Core, Open Computing December 1995 URL: http://www.lantimes.com/oc/products/reviews/xprs9512.html Gaining fresh insights about timely investment data can mean the difference between making or losing money. And streamlining senior managers' access to that data translates into faster decision making . That's why … Continue reading Express Analysis →

Getting Ahead in the Paper Chase

Can Smarter Computers Give New Meaning to Marketing Intelligence? By Alison Otto, Prepared Foods February 1991 Suffering from information overload? You're not alone. Since the arrival of scanner data in the early 80s, food companies have been awash in information. In fact, A.C. Nielsen estimates, scanners have increased the amount of data food companies receive by … Continue reading Getting Ahead in the Paper Chase →

The Evolution of Marketing Systems

By Professor John M. McCann, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University 1991 URL: http://www.duke.edu/~mccann/mwb/1evolve.htm Firms are spending millions of dollars on data and systems for use by their sales and marketing managers and professionals. There are many reasons for making these major expenditures: to track the performance of brands and items in different markets over time, to … Continue reading The Evolution of Marketing Systems →

How Quaker Oats Transforms Information Into Market Leadership

By Trish Baumann, Sales & Marketing Management June 1989 “Data, data, everywhere, and not an insight anywhere” – that’s the response of many marketers to the information explosion triggered by PCs. For the unfazed few, however, all that data represents an opportunity. Quaker Oats, Chicago, one of the first consumer goods marketers to exploit the computer's … Continue reading How Quaker Oats Transforms Information Into Market Leadership →