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
Category: Innovation
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
Steven C. Rubinow 