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HSBC to take advantage of Microsoft-Novell Linux agreement

HSBC has selected Suse Linux Enterprise as its standard Linux distribution and taken three-year support certificates from Microsoft as part of the Microsoft-Novell pact to increase interoperability between the two operating systems.

14 March 2007

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CohesiveFT and LShift launch RabbitMQ open source messaging

CohesiveFT, a US provider of virtual appliances for financial industry data standards, has teamed with London consultancy LShift to develop RabbitMQ, an open source messaging application based on the Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP), championed by JPMorgan Chase.

05 February 2007

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Euronext lays out MiFID trading strategy; Nasdaq talks up Turquoise threat

European exchange Euronext is to introduce a 'best execution' algorithm, real-time dissemination of off-orderbook trades and new transaction reporting services under preparations for the arrival of the EU-wide Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID).

01 February 2007

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Top tier firms sign up to Microsoft Novell Linux pact

Deutsche Bank, Credit Suisse and AIG Technologies have put their weight behind the recently announced collaboration between Microsoft and Novell on interoperability between Windows and Linux.

21 December 2006

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Finexpo switches venue to cope with rising numbers

Finexpo, the leading London conference and technology exhibition for City investment professionals, is set to celebrate its fifth anniversary with a move to a new venue in an effort to cater for rising delegate numbers.

24 November 2006

News/Linux

Euronext.liffe switches to Linux

Euronext.liffe, the international derivatives business of Euronext, is migrating its electronic trading infrastructure to the Linux operating system under an agreement with open source outfit Red Hat.

22 May 2006

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Fiserv ships core banking package on Linux

Fiserv has released a Linux version of its core banking system ICBS.

17 May 2006

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Société Générale boosts risk management with Linux switch

French bank Société Générale is reporting significant performance improvements on credit risk calculations after moving to a Linux-based Grid solution from incumbent vendor Algorithmics.

21 June 2005

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Reuters launches Grid-ready risk package

News and information group Reuters is to launch a new Grid and Linux-enabled, enterprise-wide risk module for managing limits and credit exposures across both the banking and trading book.

26 April 2005

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BPU Banca shifts to Linux

Italy's BPU Banca is to migrate from Sun Solaris to Red Hat Enterprise Linux across its desktops in an effort to reduce workstation costs by 50%.

15 April 2005

News/Linux

Boston Stock Exchange to deploy Market Access ticker system on Linux

The Boston Stock Exchange (BSE) is deploying the Market Access ticker processing system from Market Systems Technology (MST) on an Intel-based Linux server platform from Stratus Technologies.

28 February 2005

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Blades running at Commerzbank NA

Commerzbank in North America is using BladeFrame servers from Egenera as the utility platform for a phased migration of mission critical Unix applications to Linux and Microsoft Windows.

07 February 2005

News/Linux

European developers say SOAs set to soar

Almost three quarters of software developers in Europe will be developing service-orientated architectures this year, according to research conducted by Evans Data Corporation on behalf of BEA Systems.

18 January 2005