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LinuxWorld Australia: British Telecom Flexes Penguin-Power VoIP

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Oct 6, 2004

“Institutional trading houses and banks may not wear penguin
migrations on their sleeves but the shift to open source within the
world’s dealing rooms is so pronounced that British Telecom (BT) is
now shipping only one flavour of a fully converged trading
console–Linux.

“Colloquially known as turrets, the converged devices provide an
all-in-one combination of voice, data and integrated transactional
applications which form the front line of dealing in markets
ranging from commodities to shares, currency and
derivatives…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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