Bill Morgan Quotes on Business & Commerce (2 Quotes)

Sun delivers enterprise-class reliability and performance on an industry-standard x64 platform by offering greater choice and flexibility, especially in the areas of capacity and scalability, which are so vital for our business. Sun continues to provide innovative products and solutions for competitive, mission-critical environments by providing reliable technology for high-volume transaction processing. In an electronic trading environment where every second counts, leveraging technology for competitive advantage is a necessity - not a luxury - for our customers. From our first SPARC-based systems to our recent migration toward Sun Fire x64 servers powered with the AMD Opteron(TM) processor running the Solaris 10 OS, we depend on the reliability and scalability of Sun's systems to meet our requirements for growth and rapid application development.

The Philadelphia Stock Exchange is close to that -- its entire mission-critical trading system is based on either Sparc or x86-based Sun servers, all of which run Solaris. The exchange in July went live with a new options-trading platform running on x86-based Sun servers, and CIO Bill Morgan plans to evaluate the Galaxy systems as well as new Sparc systems next year. I'm in a business where we handle 120,000 messages a second now, and it's going to be over 200,000 next year, ... Whenever I hear a vendor is striving to upgrade capacity, that's music to my ears.