I am trying to access historical, real-time and fundamental data for
stocks that trade in the United States and Canada through a UNIX
machine.  I have found this service from some companies like Comstock
who supply MSN with their data, but this is more for companies that
want to re-sell their data and are consequently charge more money than
I want to spend.  I am using this information completely in-house and
it will be seen by less than 5 people and will not be re-sold to any
one in any way.

The main information I am concerned with is last trade, high, low,
open, volume, for the current trading session and historically, and
indicated dividend and trailing twelve-month dividend.

I would like a list of companies that provide this information for
people like myself and charge less than $1,000 a month.  Lastly, I am
looking for a real company, and without retrieving it from Yahoo!.

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Clarification of Question by jami3-ga on 15 Mar 2006 07:44 PST

For clarification, I have a Bloomberg terminal currently.  Their API
is only for windows.  However, they have just come out with a Server
API product that runs on a UNIX box, and I am currently waiting for
pricing for this.  I expect that this will be more than I am want to
pay.  Although the product looks to be exactly what I want, it looks
like from the information I have read that they are marketing this
product more for large companies that want to provide the data to a
large number of employees or customers.

Try using Whartons WRDS database.
http://wrds1.wharton.upenn.edu/cgi-bin/enter.cgi/wrds1

It even has a unix interface.

off the top of my head, you can get real time data from wombat,
http://www.wombatfs.com/index.htm
This works especially well if you are writing software to act on this
data.  Not sure how much it costs.  Reuters also has data feeds like
this, and it under 1K per month, not including exchange fees. 
Bloomberg api also has it but you need Bloomberg terminals and that is
a lot more than 1K.  I'm sure the real researchers can provide a good
list.

If you have internet access, you can get BLOOMBERG ANYWHERE.  I assume
Factset will eventually offer some similar service.  Not sure how much
per month the "anywhere service is."  Call Bloomberg for a quote.