Latest Sun Microsystems Inc News: Finextra Research

Sun to offer pre-loaded FIX Swift software

Sun Microsystems has announced plans to ship entry-level servers pre-loaded with FIX software. The vendor has also entered a joint initiative with SunGard Business Integration to offer a global Swift interface utilising Mint software.

03 October 2002

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Sun and Infosys forge bank technology alliance

Sun has entered an alliance with Infosys to deliver joint solutions based around the Indian company's Finacle enterprise banking platform.

20 September 2002

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Liberty Alliance releases first set of Web identity specs

The cross-industry Liberty Alliance consortium has released its first set of open federated network identity specifications, designed to provide Internet users with single sign-on access to multiple Web sites within approved 'circles of trust'.

16 July 2002

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Merck, Microsoft and Sun join FXall advisory board

Merck, Microsoft and Sun Microsystems have joined the customer advisory board of FXall, the bank-backed global portal for online foreign exchange trading.

10 July 2002

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Aleri joins Sun partner programme

New York-based Aleri, which recently acquired wholesale banking systems vendor Mpct, has extended its offering for the financial markets by joining the Sun Microsystems i-Force partner programme for straight-through processing.

01 July 2002

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IBM and HP pitch Linux to SIA conference-goers

IBM is to invest $1 million in a Manhattan data centre geared to wooing financial services companies to the Linux operating system.

21 June 2002

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SunGard ports broker workflow solutions to Sun One

SunGard Securities Processing has ported its StreamBridge and StreamEvents workflow solutions to the Sun Open Net Environment (Sun One) for delivery to brokerages over the Web on an application service provider basis.

29 May 2002

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Sun president Edward Zander to retire

Sun Microsystems president and chief operating officer Edward Zander is to retire at the age of 55, effective 1 July, 2002. He will be succeeded by Scott McNealy, chairman and CEO of the company.

02 May 2002

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B2B ITS scales FIX heights

UK software house B2B ITS is claiming the highest performance of any commercially available FIX engine with the release of benchmark results for its Antenna V12 package indicating a capacity of 5000 messages per second when used in conjunction with entry-level SUN hardware.

10 April 2002

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SunGard and Sun set benchmarks for TreasuryTrader

SunGard Trading Systems/Global Markets is reporting a new benchmarking performance watermark for its TreasuryTrader system, running on Sun Microsystems servers.

07 March 2002

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Asset Control launches reference data bureau

Dutch market data cleansing firm Asset Control has launched an outsourced global securities data management service, ACDEX, in direct competition with Reuters Reference Data Manager, the first product from the Reuters/Capco joint venture Synetix.

04 March 2002

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Liberty Alliance gains momentum with Visa sign up

Visa International has followed American Express and MasterCard in joining the Liberty Alliance Project, a cross-industry consortium committed to developing an Internet identity programme to challenge Microsoft's rival Passport initiative.

22 February 2002

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