By taking such an approach the association becomes recognized as a coresource for cutting-edge understandings that members can use to become more successful.
Also driving the mergers: the need to boost listings, a coresource of revenue for the exchanges as they battle to preserve their share of trading volume against competition from new market entrants like Kansas City-based BATS Trading, which siphons about 8% of Nasdaq's daily volume and 5% of NYSE volume.
In late January 2002, SCO announced that it was creating a division to expand licensing its intellectual property, including the core Unix source code.