IT Industry's Maverick Facing Tough Obstacles In Winning Back Customers By Greg Goth, Bank Technology News 3 May 2005 URL: http://www.banktechnews.com/article.html?id=20050502DDYT3W7T Sun Microsystems has gained a reputation through the years as the feisty underdog, the scrapping outfit with the different idea good enough to battle the dominance of Microsoft on the enterprise desktop and that of IBM … Continue reading Will The Sun Rise Tomorrow?  →

By Steven Marlin, Information Week 25 April 2005 URL: http://www.wallstreetandtech.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=161502250 In a sign of how electronic trading is changing financial markets, the 213-year-old New York Stock Exchange plans to merge with Archipelago Holdings Inc., an all-electronic exchange founded eight years ago. Two days after that deal was unveiled last week, Nasdaq said it would buy Inet, Instinet … Continue reading NYSE And Nasdaq Power Up Electronic Trading →

Archipelago’s CTO Steve Rubinow juggles exchange integration with the launch of a new trading platform. By Rob Daly, Waters 1 April 2005 URL: http://db.riskwaters.com/public/showPage.html?page=213123 In his office overlooking the Chicago River, Archipelago’s CTO Steve Rubinow is hip deep in integration. The electronic stock exchange is in the midst of acquiring the Pacific Exchange (PCX)—a deal that came … Continue reading Grid for Greenbacks →

By Ivy Schmerken, Wall Street and Technology 17 February 2005 URL: http://www.wallstreetandtech.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=60401691 Reacting to the high volume and velocity of data messages generated by automated-trading strategies, Archipelago Holdings, the operator of the Archipelago Exchange (ArcaEx), is testing a new real-time information-processing platform. Streambase Systems, Inc., of Lexington, Mass., announced that Archipelago was a customer on Tuesday in … Continue reading Archipelago Adopts Streaming Data Platform →

By WS&T Staff, Wall Street and Technology 03 February 2005 URL: http://www.wallstreetandtech.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=59300871 Sun Microsystems is planning to build the world's first online compute exchange together with Archipelago, which operates the first all-electronic stock exchange. Sun made the joint announcement during its quarterly Network Computing '05 launch today in Santa Clara, Calif., and Chicago. The companies plan to … Continue reading Sun and Archipelago Team to Build the World’s First Compute Exchange →

By Maria Trombly, Securities Industry News 8 December 2003 URL: http://www.securitiesindustry.com/ At a time when other Wall Street firms are replacing expensive proprietary servers with cheap Wintel or Linux boxes, Archipelago is bucking the trend. Although Archipelago Holdings-the parent of the electronic ArcaEx exchange-initially started out by using Windows servers on Intel hardware, it has since moved … Continue reading Archipelago: Tech Contrarian →

Veritas: The Price of Independence Archipelago's Rubinow needed a tool that would work with storage hardware from different companies. By Jeff Moad, eWEEK 1 July 2003 URL: http://www.baselinemag.com/article2/0,3959,1186865,00.asp Remember when you didn't worry about managing data storage? That was before e-commerce, e-mail and applications such as customer relationship management software created an explosion in servers, disks and data. … Continue reading Who’s Minding the Storage? →

By Elisabeth Horwitt, Storage Networking World Online 23 June 2003 URL: http://www.snwonline.com/case_studies/online_stock_exchange_06-23-03.asp?article_id=261 An online stock exchange is not the kind of computing environment that can greet an occasional system outage or dip in service levels with a shrug and a "better luck next time." As a recent entry in this highly competitive business sector, Archipelago needed to … Continue reading Online stock exchange enhances performance, reliability →

By Ivy Schmerken, Wall Street & Technology Online 15 April 2003 URL: http://www.wallstreetandtech.com/story/WST20030415S0006 Archipelago is migrating its entire OTC stock-trading business off the Microsoft/Intel platform and onto Sun Microsystems' Unix servers. Sun's track record, coupled with cost savings, security and reliability were key factors in the decision, according to Steve Rubinow, chief technology officer of Chicago-based Archipelago. … Continue reading Archipelago Serves Microsoft an Ace →