IBM Chalks Up A Rare Trading Room Win: Cantor Buys OS/2 For 1,000-Seat System

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Interdealer-broker Cantor Fitzgerald L.P. has selected IBM's Valuepoint PCs running the multi-tasking OS/2 operating system to support its 1,000 traders worldwide. The IBM OS/2-based system will be replacing the dumb terminal-based platform Cantor's traders currently use. Cantor, which chose OS/2 over Unix and Microsoft Corp.'s Windows operating systems, also plans to use IBM's operating system in support of more than 400 of its customers relying on its so-called Speed broker-screen network.

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