Analysts said Wednesday that the episode points out the weakness in the hybrid model.
Under the hybrid model, most stocks would trade electronically and customers could ask for a floor broker to handle trades.
Thain has attempted to work out a hybrid model that promotes greater use of electronic trading, especially among the most liquid stocks, while preserving a role for the floor.
The hybrid model is partly practical, because so many organizations are competing for the same pool of grant money from sources like USAID and the Gates Foundation.
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Ditmire from Fox-Pitt says the lesson from Tuesday may be that the manual part of the hybrid model at NYSE will disappear more quickly than many already expect.
The hybrid model, with companies controlling key resources and outsourcing others to the cloud, has been a popular topic with many of the big tech companies, like Hewlett Packard.
You'll soon be able to do it in a Porsche by the end of the year without burning a drop of gas, thanks to a new plug-in Panamera S E-Hybrid model.
What's more, the company says its also readying an all-electric version of the vehicle in addition to the plug-in hybrid model, with promising to last for around 120 miles before needing a recharge.
That said, the hybrid model (where part of a program is taught online and part is taught in person) is one that we can expect to see more fully embraced in this coming year.
That hybrid model granted the GSEs access to cheap funding and gave them the incentive to load their retained portfolios with subprime mortgages whilst maintaining capital levels scanty enough to make investment banks blush.
And in this case, the hybrid model has nothing to do with overhead cams and internal-combustion horsepower but everything to do with using IT-driven insights to get NASCAR fans to buy more tickets and engage more actively with the sport.
We talked about cloud computing and his vision for a hybrid model, the role that converged infrastructure and automation from the compute resources all the way to VM provisioning, Steve agreed that is what would ultimately be needed to enable private cloud.
Last year he unveiled a hybrid model that, when in place sometime next year, will push the trading of the most liquid stocks on the exchange to an electronic system, while less liquid stocks will still be handled by the specialists on the floor.
On Tuesday, floor traders wound up the day processing orders manually, using paper, pencil and in some cases white board to keep track of buy and sell orders, instead of using the electronic trading system that is supposed to be the show-piece of the hybrid model.
The A2B Hybrid 24 model expects you to pedal, increasing in speed the harder you work.
Unlike cars like the Ford Focus Electric and the Toyota Prius plug-in hybrid, the Model S follows a similar strategy to BMW's ActiveE when it comes to regenerative braking.
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That includes pushing ahead with the next phase of NYSE's "hybrid" trading model, which pushes more trading in the most liquid stocks to an automated system and leaves the trading of more illiquid or highly volatile stocks in the hands of the specialists on the floor.
In a separate announcement, Toyota, which was a pioneer of petrol-electric hybrid vehicles with its Prius model in 1997, said sales of these and its other hybrid models had now passed five million.
Lexus will introduce this new hybrid powertrain into its model range in the near future.
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Some studies indicate it takes more than five times as long to sell a hybrid than a traditional internal combustion engine model, which may explain one of the many reasons why hybrid sales are not growing above 3.5% of the market.
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It advocates a "hybrid a la carte" model, in which those most expensive channels are sold individually on top of genre-based tiers.
It is 'stuck halfway' between communism and capitalism, as President Boris Yeltsin acknowledged in a speech Tuesday, with a 'freakish model...a hybrid.
Investors puzzled over its hybrid consumer-and-enterprise business model, which depends on attracting consumers but selling services mainly to businesses, and its focus on the less-flashy world of professional connections.
The car company delayed the launch of its first and only commercially available model, the plug-in hybrid called Karma, and that caused A123 to lower its 2011 sales forecast significantly.
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For instance, according to the Union of Concerned Scientists, model year 2012 plug-in hybrid sales of cars like the Chevy Volt are running at triple the rate of last year, and hybrids are up almost 50 percent compared to 2011.
The next new model is the CT200h, a dedicated hybrid, which is coming to market around the first of the year.
The hybrid design of its Windows 8-based Vaio Duo 11 model adopts a concept that has long been promoted by chip designer Intel.
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