“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…”