Aegis Software Announces New CMS Protocol Driver.Business & Technology Editors NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 28, 2002 Today, Aegis Software Inc., New York-based provider of software for the financial industry, announced their "CMS (1) See content management system and color management system. (2) (Conversational Monitor System) Software that provides interactive communications for IBM's VM operating system. Driver," a code library that provides order management systems with connectivity to CMS-based (Common Message Switch) exchanges such as NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange and AMEX AMEX See: American Stock Exchange . The CMS Driver library links to any Java or C/C C/C Center to Center C/C Combustion Chamber C/C Command/Control C/C Crew Chief C/C cabin cruiser (US DoD) C/C chief complaint (medical) C/C Channel-to-Channel C/C Communication and Collaboration ++ programs to provide high throughput TCP/IP TCP/IP in full Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol Standard Internet communications protocols that allow digital computers to communicate over long distances. connectivity. Aegis' CMS Driver comes on the heels of NYSE's July 31, 2002 discontinuation of new non-TCP/IP line access (e.g. X.25, Bisync, 3270, Async). As mandated by NYSE, effective December 31, 2003, all customer lines into the exchange must be converted to TCP/IP via the NYSE CAP network. "The CMS Driver is for any firm that needs a modern software implementation of CMS", said Norm Friedman, Vice President, Aegis Software. "With the deadline now announced for the elimination of non-TCP/IP connections, brokers must become compliant as soon as possible. The Driver is usable out-of-the-box and all that is needed is integration to the back-end. The retirement of the older wire protocols also affords the opportunity to decommission de·com·mis·sion tr.v. de·com·mis·sioned, de·com·mis·sion·ing, de·com·mis·sions To withdraw (a ship, for example) from active service. old Tandem and Stratus hardware, which is still used by many broker-dealers to implement their CMS connections." Aegis Software (www.aegisoft.com) has provided New York's financial industry with FIX/CMS connectivity, programming and testing solutions since 1994. Through their custom trading solution and off the shelf products including the Client Simulator, Exchange Simulator, CMS Driver, CMS-to-FIX converter, FIX-to-CMS converter, T3 Total Trade Test, and FIX Certification Suite, Aegis addresses the connectivity and quality assurance needs of equities order management and order processing systems, exchanges, and ECNs. |
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