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> The term "economy of mechanism" which is thrown about quite a bit in the > secure computing world, is the key here - the more complicated you make > something, the harder it is to assure it and the more likely it is that > it will do something unexpected. An interesting contrast here would be CyberTrader vs Startup X (a real startup I know of in NY). Over the space of 4-5 years, the team at CyberTrader developed a world-class electronic trading system on the Windows platform using C++ and the WIN32 sdk. The company was eventually acquired by Schwab in 2000, and as far as I know, the product line continues to be a leading solution for active traders. Startup X, on the other hand, went the bleeding-edge route and develops a trading platform using WPF. After 4 years of development, and millions of dollars in funding, they're still struggling to get a real product out to the market. Interestingly enough, the technologies used to develop the CyberTrader platform are even more refined today than they were in 1995, yet nobody wants to use them because they aren't "cool" anymore. In fact, people don't even want to use Windows Forms anymore because WPF is now the "cool" technology. There's a real problem on the Windows side of the house with people constantly running for the slickest new thing instead of focusing on the technologies that will allow them to actually get a solid product into the market quickly... This is just one example of technology choices being the real problem on Windows, not the underlying operating system. [You can unsubscribe from this discussion group by sending a message to mailto:unsubscribe+100932...@fixprotocol.org] -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Financial Information eXchange" group. To post to this group, send email to fix-proto...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to fix-protocol+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/fix-protocol?hl=en.
