Nasdaq-listed Advent Software has pulled out of Australia, notifying some of their customers by last-minute e-mail in a move described by one as "disgraceful".
The Australian Stock Exchange has reminded third-party intermediaries who are on-selling information from its free Web-site rather than paying for a commercial service that their arrangement ends in a few weeks.
A software glitch took down the Australian Stock Exchange's automated trading system for more than three hours today, officials said.
When the Australian stock exchange (ASX) went searching for debugging software to provide bug-free operation in its new derivatives trading system, it came across Compuware's QACentre-a suite of automated testing tools. Currently, over 160 trading participants rely on the ASX's Derivatives Trading Facility (DTF) to process up to 200,000 orders a day. With any problems affecting the ability of members to trade likely to become public very quickly, software reliability is critical.
As part of a $2 million overhaul, the Australian Stock Exchange will swap current desktops for IBM's IntelliStation PC workstations, in the largest single sale of the product in the Southern Hemisphere.
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