Online firms ought to fly this software.

Investment News, July, 2000 by Southall, Brooke

Firm claims product can anticipate and avoid costly crashes The top 10 online trading firms, which account for 90% of all such trades, have suffered enough delays and crashes to prompt a government investigation. The airline industry has also had significant experience with delays and computer problems, and one software firm thinks it holds the key to solving online trading woes.

Peakstone Inc., a Sunnyvale, Calif., start-up firm, takes complex algorithms -- the type utilized for autopilots on jets -- and applies them to websites to keep them from crashing. A study of 12 online brokers released last month by the General Accounting Office found that investors are most likely to complain when they can't access their accounts. An...

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