Everyone thought Richard Stallman was crazy in the 1980s when he tossed out the rules of the conventionalsoftware industry and started trying to develop a completely free operating system.
Driving Paulson's huge investment in hardware, software and communications links is his belief that the days of the conventional trading floor are numbered--and that the stock, options and commodities exchanges have been in denial or too sluggish to do much about it.
Because these systems have been built from the ground up to optimize the interplay between hardware and software, the Exa family delivers greater speed and power and also better cost-performance than any conventional systems can hope to match.