[crsmith]

A lot of hedge fund traders still use AIM. The sell side is going to use whatever the buy side wants, and the buy side has some tech dinosaurs.

Symphony is trying to tap into that market.

Also interesting, Bloomberg is coming out with a cheap version of their instant messenger ($10/month)

[memossy]

No way, a whole bunch of people have full terminals just for the instant messaging service (sales people in particular)