When Platform Computing formed its financial services business unit in May 2008, it probably didn't know that within six months the financial industry would begin to implode, bringing much of the global economy down with it. Now that some of the biggest investment banks are just scrambling for survival, will Platform's new focus on Wall Street pay off?

According to Jim Mancuso, Platform's general manager of the new business unit, that answer is yes. "It's not to say that everything is perfect and rosy and we haven't been impacted," he says, "but it is to say our business is still growing and we actually have had some really good results in the last quarter and moving forward."

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