On the IT side, the company has predominantly mainframe-based applications in the areas of providing quotes; obtaining orders; order fulfillment; and logistics, customer, and supplier management.

Additionally, the OrderQueue class — which is neither a Tapestry class nor a business component — handles much of the business side of taking orders and organizing them in a useful manner.

There are plenty of underemployed stockbrokers with the guile to squeeze a few orders from their old PALS on the buy-side.