The central exchange system software is supplied by OM, a Swedish company with worldwide trading technology experience. This application runs on multiple servers and uses clustered databases, providing a high degree of reliability, flexibility and scalability. All transactions are processed in parallel across dual data centers, providing complete redundancy.

     The software operates on OpenVMS and Windows NT platforms, using Hewlett-Packard’s Reliable Transaction Router (RTR) for transaction management and Oracle RDB as the database engine.

     The system operates on Alpha and Intel-based servers supplied by Hewlett-Packard Company.