Stories about: NYSE

Wall Street firms increasingly are buying into Linux, but some still need convincing that open source licensing and support models won't make using the technology more trouble than its worth.

The New York Stock Exchange is investing heavily in x86-based Linux systems and blade servers as it builds out the NYSE Hybrid Market trading system that it launched last year. Flexibility and lower cost are among the goals. But one of the things that NYSE Euronext CIO Steve Rubinow says he most wants from the new computing architecture is technology independence.

VMware, whose new VMW stock ticker symbol sounds remarkably like a luxury sports car, roared off the starting line in its first day as a public company Tuesday.

Bells are sounding early for Red Hat this holiday season, but its' not the Christmas type. The Linux specialist has made the jump from the NASDAQ Stock Market to the New York Stock Exchange in what is being touted as a coup for the NYSE and important move for open source.

Open-source database vendor Ingres Wednesday named Infor Global Solutions as its first ERP (enterprise resource planning) partner since Ingres spun off from CA over a year ago.

New York Stock Exchange announced last week that it's rolling out a Java-based trading system that includes customized wireless handheld devices for traders. The new technology could mean the beginning of the end to the shouts of "Buy" and "Sell" that have long been the trademark of the nation's oldest and largest stock exchange.

Rick Belluzzo will step into unfamiliar territory when he takes the helm at Quantum next month, but the former Microsoft executive is confident he can deepen his knowledge of the storage industry and aid his new company's transition.