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Linux Lets Loose

TRADING TECHNOLOGY

Nothing destroys a good trade faster than latency. That's why the tech staff at foreign exchange (FX) trading venue Currenex has been burning the midnight oil migrating Currenex's Sun Microsystems -based FX trading platform to Linux. The immediate impact on end-users has been a dramatic drop in the time it takes to execute a trade.

Currenex began thinking about adopting the new open-source architecture earlier this year and began the migration in April. "We're about 85 percent complete with the

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