Move to Reuters Market Data System on Linux & HP Saveupto50% or more

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1 Move to Reuters Market Data System on Linux & HP Saveupto50% or more Organizations who have both Triarch and TIB can reap the additional benefit of consolidation onto a single new platform without sacrificing what they liked about either of the older platforms. For clients with no market data system today, RMDS offers the industry's most advanced information capabilities, in a system that can be adapted to sites of any size. Reuters, HP and Linux: Delivering More For Less Reuters and HP have joined forces to optimize RMDS on cost-effective HP ProLiant Servers and Linux to increase performance and save you money. This partnership offers customers currently using a Triarch, Telerade, or TIB market data system the opportunity to: reduce total cost of ownership by as much as 50-75%, run RMDS faster than on previously tested Linux servers, increase in RMDS performance by % vs. UNIX server, increase performance of the infrastructure, limit operational risk, get full value from information.

2 RDMS on HP ProLiant and Linux: the time is now HP and Linux is the reference development platform for RDMS delivering compelling ROI, TCO, and Price Performance numbers. The following values represent the Return On Investment in moving from TIB and Triarch on traditional UNIX to RMDS on Linux/ProLiant: Risk Adjusted 3 year ROI 5 year ROI No 222% 345% Yes 138% 267% Notes: - 222% ROI represents $2.22 returned for each $1.00 spent - "risk adjusted" refers to the risk that the estimates may be incorrect - not the risk of the migration project. To adjust the estimates, Giga did two things: - Ratchet up the application migration costs - Eliminate the customer expectation that improved performance could be used to stretch out the refresh cycle - Source: Giga / Forrester Total Economic Impact (TEI) analysis of RMDS on Linux The Giga Research study also found: substantial cost savings around hardware cost component increased performance leads to potentially longer refresh cycles Triarch is an easier migration for applications return is higher for TIB migration both Triarch and TIB sites can potentially improve ROI further by altering their mix of server types

3 Dramatic Performance Increase Dramatic Reduction in TCO 5 year costs of RMDS on Linux vs RMDS on Unix Updates per Second 450, , , , , , , ,000 50,000 0 SRC_DST/MDH BGD_SRC/P2PS Component Linux 03 UNIX Linux 05 $3,000,000 $2,500,000 $2,000,000 $1,500,000 $1,000,000 $500,000 $0 Hardware Software Maintenance Total Costs Total Cost UNIX Total Cost LINUX 6/21/2005 Giga Information Group March /21/2005 RMDS has been optimized to run on Linux. Tests of RMDS on a ProLiant Linux server have shown a performance benefit of % when compared with a UNIX server configured with the same number of processors and memory. The variation depended on the RMDS module employed. The measurement used is updates per second. About Linux In delivering the next-generation market data system on HP and Linux, Reuters is responding to the growing market demand for reduced total cost of ownership, improved performance, flexibility and ease of implementation - all benefits of the Linux platform. Additional benefits of RMDS on Linux include: - Consolidation of resources; - Improved data management; -Reduceinfrastructurecostbyupto50%; - Control of operational risk; - High availability and high integrity; - Smooth migration from legacy systems; - Linux - UNIX affinity to leverage resources and investments; - Range of desktop applications; - Leading edge web and wireless technologies; - Powerful integration infrastructure and extensive suite of APIs. About RMDS Reuters Market Data System is the class leading market data platform that allows users to manage market data content in real-time across a trading environment. Its principle function is to manage connections to market data feeds and deliver content through desktop display applications or to other software applications with a high degree of reliability and resilience. Reuters Market Data System - RMDS - integrates, distributes, and adds value to information from the markets, about the markets and affecting the markets. RMDS joins the best components from the two most widely used market data systems today - Reuters Triarch and the TIB Market Data Distribution System - to manage financial content in real time with a high degree of scalability and resilience. On top of this foundation, RMDS provides new components to address today's most pressing requirements such as a point-to-point server for extremely low latency data and an analytic data server for high-end analytics. Reuters Market Data System: Benefits The Reuters Market Data System drives competitive advantage because it can help you: Reduce the total cost of ownership - Resource consolidation - RMDS enables you to consolidate datafeeds and infrastructure into extremely scalable central hubs, serving the extended enterprise through multicast and Internet protocols. Traffic management features also protect your desktop hardware investment from future data volumes while reducing your bandwidth spend. - Data management - RMDS enables you to delay data to reduce exchange fees. It also provides an exchange approved mechanism to enforce data permissions and detect unneeded data subscriptions.

4 Control operational risk - High availability and high integrity - RMDS supports a variety of site configurations for business continuity plans, from warm standby sites to multi-centre campus configurations. Features such as source mirroring, granular state management and auto recovery ensure maximum availability and quality of data when sources or systems suffer outages. In addition, proactive monitoring tools keep a watchful eye over the RMDS components, ensuring that any potential problems can be anticipated and resolved before they happen. - Smooth migration from legacy systems - RMDS components can be introduced into existing TIB, Telerade, or Triarch environments with minimal disruption of other components, ensuring that any potential problems can be anticipated and resolved before they happen. - Smooth migration from legacy systems - RMDS components can be introduced into existing TIB, Telerade, or Triarch environments with minimal disruption of other components. This means that you can realise new benefits from RMDS through a low-risk, incremental deployment program. Fully leverage information - Range of desktop applications - Reuters 3000 Xtra, Kobra and PowerPlus Pro desktops plug comfortably into the RMDS infrastructure, giving high-tier users the most powerful market data desktop available. Other users can take advantage of different applications that utilise the same infrastructure. - Extensive suite of APIs - A suite of open, flexible APIs and rapid application development tools ensure that RMDS can satisfy your needs. A large community of thirdparty developers reduces the cost of implementing new applications. - Leading-edge web and wireless technologies - RMDS can extend streaming and snapshot data across the Internet, extranets and intranets to web browsers, cell phones, pagers and other devices. Whether you need to support an e-commerce site for active online traders or an internal employee portal for casual market data consumption, RMDS offers a flexible solution that can accommodate your specific needs. - Powerful integration infrastructure - RMDS can normalize, filter, analyze, and store a variety of content types. By doing this on the server side, RDMS allows you to re-use value-added content quickly in new applications, while providing the operational efficiencies that come with thin-client architecture. Whether you need to apply complex queries to external and internal news or process complex, sophisticated financial models in real-time, RMDS has the best-in-class technologies. RDMS Specifications Reuters Market Data System is a modular system consisting of several products which can be introduced incrementally. These products provide a number of powerful capabilities including user connectivity, content management, display options, supplier integration and management control: - User connectivity - Efficient and robust distribution of real-time data to and from users inside and outside the enterprise. Connectivity to desktops, browsers and wireless devices. - Content management - Filtering, integration, enrichment and analytics capabilities, providing results and datastreams that are tailored to the user and context. - Display - A range of display options to meet a range of end-user requirements. - Supplier integration - Adapters for commonly used information sources and facilities for contributing data to vendors. Infrastructure for managing the information flow efficiently and reliably. - Management - Control over your market data and applications across the financial enterprise. - Application development - A suite of APIs and tools to build applications for your exact needs. Whether you are establishing a new data center or looking to introduce new capabilities to your existing TIBCO, Telerade, or Triarch system, the Reuters Market Data System provides an unparalleled level of functionality, flexibility, manageability and reliability.

5 About Reuters Although Reuters is best known as the world's largest international multimedia news agency, more than 90% of their revenue derives from the financial services business. Some 330,000 financial market professionals working in the equities, fixed income, foreign exchange, money, commodities and energy markets around the world use Reutersproducts.TheyrelyonReutersservicestoprovide them with the information and tools they need to help thembemoreproductive. Reuters' core strengths lie in providing the content, analytics, trading and messaging capabilities needed by financial professionals. Reuters open technology, based on industry standards, enables customers to search, store and integrate information with content from other sources, facilitating the way they work. Reuters provides financial institutions with specially designed tools to help reduce risk and distribute and manage ever-increasing volumes of market data. Reuters electronic trading services connect financial communities, helping them to gain access to the best prices and to trade efficiently and effectively. Discover the HP Advantage With revenues exceeding $83 Billion, HP is #11 on the Fortune 500. HP serves more than one billion customers in more than 160 countries. HP's offerings span IT infrastructure, personal computing and access devices, global services, and imaging and printing. HP's strong focus on ecommerce solutions fosters the ability to efficiently deliver maximum performance to a highly variable number of users. HP Solutions for e- Commerce leverage our HP platforms and enabling tools. The result is solutions that are easy to deploy, have the ability to automatically add capacity as needed and delivery low cost of ownership through an integrated management framework. HP is a leading provider of infrastructure products, solutions and services for the financial services industry. We help institutions innovate with IT to create cost out, future in solutions. The following are examples of HP's presence: - 95% of all securities transactions run on HP - 80% of ATM transactions run on HP - 66% of credit card transactions run on HP - 75% of EFT networks run on HP - 49% of all trading desks run on HP workstations HP helps financial institutions realize a better return on investment by adding HP Adaptive Infrastructure components that provide flexibility and optimize existing IT investments. HP Adaptive Enterprise solutions enable companies to become truly adaptive, able to both respondtoandtakeadvantageofchangethisportfolio helps you measure, architect, and manage a new enterprise environment that will drive greater business value, performance, and competitive advantage. HP Adaptive Enterprise: Delivering Major IT Operational Savings "An agile enterprise, which HP calls an adaptive enterprise, is one that can respond to ever-changing conditions in its environment. A key feature of the agile enterprise is its ability to anticipate change in its environment and to respond rapidly in ways that customers welcome and competitors are unprepared to counter. Thus, the agile enterprise continually pursues sources of competitive advantage. These advantages may be short term or long term, depending on how easily they can be imitated or countered by competitors, but the agile enterprise is well prepared for the ongoing pursuit." - IDC White Paper: Enabling Business Agility : Hewlett - Packard's Adaptive Enterprise Strategy - May, 2003

6 Whether you choose UNIX, Linux, or Windows, You Can Depend on HP #1 globally in x86*, Windows *, Linux *, UNIX* and blade servers** #1 globally in the inkjet, all-in-one and single-function printers, mono and color laser printers, large format printing, scanners, print servers and ink and laser supplies* #1 in total disk and storage systems* #2 globally in notebook PCs* #1 globally in Pocket PCs* #1 in customer support - Gartner, November 2004 #1 position in customer loyalty for ProLiant server - Technology Business Research, Inc., October 26, 2004 #1 in customer satisfaction in Intel-based servers (U.S. Market) - Technology Business Research HP-UX 11i #1 ranked enterprise operating system! - VAR Business Superdome earns #1 UNIX server spot for OLTP in server evaluation model - Gartner HP receives top UNIX operating system ranking - D.H. Brown Associates Market leader in AMD Opteron processor-based servers; #1 provider of industry-standard x86 servers worldwide - IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker, November * Refers to units, except storage referred in factory revenue. Source: IDC Q **Source: Gartner, November 2004 HP - 140,000 employees - In 160 countries - Doing business in 43 currencies and 15 languages. - $72 billion in Revenues - Headquartered in Palo Alto, CA. HP Services HP Services consists of 65,000 professionals who provide consulting, integration, management and customer support services to deliver a best-in-class total customer experience. #1 in mission-critical infrastructure services #1 in enterprise-ready Microsoft services #3 in IT services market overall #1 in high availability support services Gartner, Oct 2003 Count on HP for proven implementation success. Our demonstrable business process improvements include full life-cycle support (from needs assessment to post-install management) and complete value chain, turnkey delivery capability. HP's leadership in servers, storage, notebooks, desktops, handhelds, and workstations means you always have the best-available tools to meet the demands of your enterprise. HP ProLiant Servers ProLiant servers have long been known for reliability. In addition to unsurpassed product reliability, HP innovations provide platforms and solutions that improve data center efficiency while helping customers manage complexity and risk. ProLiant 300 and 500 series servers are designed to offer value-added functionality for maximum performance and flexibility. The ProLiant management infrastructure creates an environment for life cycle management that optimizes data center efficiency and lowers TCO. The market has responded, making HP the No. 1 vendor for worldwide x86 server shipments for an astounding 35 consecutive quarters. According to IDC, HP's x86 server revenue outpaced the market during the first quarter of 2005, growing at 15-percent clip year over year. In Q1 of this year, HP ranked No. 1 in this space, delivering 32.2 percent of all x86 units shipped and 33.3 percent of revenues worldwide.

7 On June 22, 2005, HP Made Computing History with the Shipment of the10 Millionth HP ProLiant Server and announced New Dual-Core Systems, Services Pave the Way to the Next 10 Million. The new Dual-Core AMD Opteron processorbased servers redefine performance at the same power and density of single-core models. The new servers can boost certain enterprise application performance by more than 80 percent over traditional single-core processor systems.

8 HP's ProLiant DL585 Server runs Reuters RMDS blazingly fast HP DL585 on Reuters RMDS: Summary of Test Results w/baseline Configuration Product Version Product Version Config Options Max update rate/sec Comments Comments MDH Source Distributor MDH optimized RRCP; cache disabled 275,000 There were no backbone errors or packets lost in any of these test. MDH optimized RRCP; cache enabled 171,000 Product Version Config Options Mounts: Commonality Max update rate/sec P2PS/LAN P2PS optimized RRCP, cache disabled no fan-out 420,000 P2PS optimized RRCP, cache enabled no fan-out 410,000 Preliminary results: June, 2005 ProLiant DL 585 Key Benefits The new HP ProLiant DL585 delivers the highest 32-bit performance of any 4way server as well as 64-bit capabilities, enabling customers to deploy a common 4-way platform for their highperformance 32-bit and future 64-bit computing requirements. This server features: - Outstanding performance - Deployment versatility for a variety of 4-way applications - ProLiant reliability, management and support Save Even More With HP BladeServer Systems HP BladeSystems go beyond solving server issues. It solves infrastructure issues. To do that, we've taken a total system approach to design. We're using advanced management tools to integrate computing, storage, power, and network resources into a virtualized, selfaware, automated environment. With HP BladeSystem, you're managing a pool of resources as easily as one machine, and you're ready to become a better service provider to your business. The business case for adopting the HP BladeSystem in the data center: Lower acquisition costs - save more than 15% with as few as eight HP BladeSystems vs. comparable rackmounted infrastructures. Operational cost savings - reduce the annual estimated costs for 100 servers from $68,800 to $8,600. Data center space savings -Reduce the amount of space requiredinthedatacenterbymorethan50percent. More efficient power usage - Save over $6,000 per rack of 32 servers through reduced power consumption and lower power distribution costs. The combination of lower acquisition costs and dramatically improved data center efficiency make a strong business case for adopting the HP BladeSystem as the architectural foundation to transform the technologies, people, and processes behind your IT department. The fact is, when it comes to increased business agility, greater data center efficiency, and higher long-term IT value, HP BladeSystem is simply the best choice. To see an on-line demonstration of Reuters Market Data System visit: Reduce cabling - by 87 percent and save $100 to $350 per 10/100 network port. Eliminate the need for KVM switches and cables through Advanced Integrated Lights- Out (ilo) management over IP - saving up to $25,000 for each rack.

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