Jeremy Grant, who covers exchanges for the Financial Times, said that in racing after high frequency trading the utility functions of exchanges may be lost.

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Agencies must collect or create only that information necessary for the proper performance of agency functions and which has practical utility.

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But for computing to be bought and sold as a utility, firms must be able to switch vendors, to do it for all their computing functions, and with meter-based pricing.

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