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ING Postbank deploys Sun Internet banking platform

Dutch financial services firm ING has implemented an Internet banking system developed by Sun Microsystems at its retail banking subsidiary, Postbank.

30 August 2005

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Sun targets SOA market with SeeBeyond acquisition

Sun Microsystems is to acquire middleware firm SeeBeyond for $387 million in cash.

28 June 2005

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Asset Control to open New York development centre

Dutch data management technology vendor Asset Control is establishing a new technology developement centre in Times Square, New York.

23 June 2005

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DE Shaw signs with Sun for massive grid project

New York investment firm DE Shaw has purchased 1700 Sun Fire servers running the Solaris 10 operating system for a massive computational grid project.

23 June 2005

Sun wheels out Solaris supporters

SIA 2005: Sun has wheeled out a raft of financial customers to talk up its Solaris 10 operating system after undertaking more than 40 'proof of concept' trials with clients in the sector.

22 June 2005

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Claimonitor STP utility set for live launch

Claimonitor, a new ASP-based straight-through processing utility for automating transactions and market-related claims in the global custodian, investment banking, asset management and broker communities, is preparing for a live launch next month.

08 June 2005

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Sun parades JPMorgan support for Solaris 10

JPMorgan has committed to using Sun's Solaris 10 operating system as the platform for a range of future high-grade technology projects, including grid computing, data archiving and virtualised data centre services.

31 March 2005

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Meff begins two month cutover to Sun platform

Meff, the Spanish financial futures exchange, has begun moving its electronic trading system to a new technology platform supplied by Sun Microsystems.

08 March 2005

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JPMorgan Chase promotes open source messaging system

JPMorgan Chase is promoting uptake of a new open source alternative to proprietary message queuing technology for the investment banking industry.

11 February 2005

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Sun in talks with Archipelago to launch utility computing market

Sun Microsystems is in negotiations with electronic stock exchange operator Archipelago to launch a platform to buy and sell blocks of computing power.

03 February 2005

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Cambista teams with GST to develop Java-based batch payment system

Cambista Technologies is partnering with Generated Systems Technologies (GST) to develop Batch Wire Server, a high volume payment system based on Java technology.

08 November 2004

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BNP Paribas implements Sun servers to power risk Grid

BNP Paribas is rolling out over 100 Sun Fire V20z servers to improve the performance of the Grid computing infrastructure that supports its risk management operations.

30 September 2004