Is Microsoft technologies dead for trading and quant with advancements in R Python and Linux?
I know I know. Why would I say that? Good question but the next couple of weeks are completely exploratory. Talking to people in my webinar tonite lead me to be believe that Python is bigger than we know. Especially for those traders getting tossed out of their jobs from banks. They also recognize they need to learn to automate and program to see competetive in the world of modern day trading. Cave men will whine but let’s get real. In London for instance, there are tonnes of discussion with Python out there in the world of finance. It may have started in USA, but it is spreading. OK, yeh I pooed pooed in the past. Now that I got it up and running like here in Linux:
Breaking news New Ubuntu Linux environment with working Python on WIndows thanks to VMWare
Breakthru indeed! Now, is Microsoft dead with their technologies. Absolutely not, When you look at an incredible front end app like this
Infragistics has sexy DotNET WPF and Silverlight front end apps for trading platforms
WPF keeps them in the game and owning the desktop! As I investigate further in to other stacks like Java/Erlang/Python or R, it makes me wonder if this is the best. Maybe oy maybe. I don’t know, call me confused. This is why I am having all these webinar over the next few weeks. Also, you need to ask yourself this: Why is Microsoft finally open sourcing .NET int Linux via Mono? Is it really as fast. I kind of like to eliminate as many layer in my deployed system.
That is the stack of I am thinking. The database is the next part. Let me know what you think.
I still think you should own your own infrastructure for programmers.
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