OS switch boosts Hotspot FX

- Michael Shashoua
- 09 Nov 2009

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As part of a project to bring Hotspot FX's architecture in line with its other trading and matching platform, Knight recently moved the electronic foreign exchange trading platform to Linux from Microsoft Windows.

Since the change, the platform's performance is two to four times better, and the system is "more deterministic and easier for us to support", said Steven Sadoff, executive vice-president and chief information officer at Knight in New York.

To achieve these results, the broker

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