Stories about: ETrade

ETrade Financial and other online stock brokerages are at war over how fast they can execute a trade. Ameritrade Holding kicked off the execution promise game in 2001 by guaranteeing a turnaround of 10 seconds or less. ETrade countered with a nine-second guarantee, and since then it has all been downhill.

When the right technology doesn't exist or isn't available at the right price, many large companies get creative and build their own custom systems, such as routers, firewalls or VPN gear.

The improving scalability of Linux, the low cost and increasingly high power of Intel Corp. hardware, and the license-free nature of open source software could add up to big savings for large corporations looking to bolster their data centers.

Only a week after Microsoft's CEO Steve Ballmer hit Australian shores to appease twitchy customers, IBM has jetted in its chief Linux salesman John Vitkus in a concerted effort to open the hearts, minds and wallets of Australian banks and financial institutions to penguin-flavoured solutions.

The recent LinuxWorld Expo in New York was the scene of some startling revelations regarding the state of open source. Last summer's show in California showed that Linux wanted to do business in the enterprise. But at this LinuxWorld, Linux looked like nothing but business in the enterprise.

Information technology managers said they're on guard against a new distributed denial-of-service attack tool called trinity that targets Linux servers and uses IRC channels to unleash IP packet floods.