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Other companies will be emboldened to follow their lead as evidence of traction begins to surface.

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The IT arm of NYSE Euronext announced beta of Capital Markets Community Platform, its cloud computing offering this week, and the effort, on the surface, is a good example for other vertical markets to follow.

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