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Big Webcast today — Hear UBS Director of IT Eric Kristoff, Microsoft Industry Architect Stevan Vidich, and yours truly expound on the wonders of grid computing in the financial services industry.  Go here:
http://www.xtalks.com/gridcomputing.ashx
 

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Don Canning describes “how a startup becomes an industry success,” providing his own take on our recent demonstration of the Digipede Network running on Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003 (CCS) at the Securities Industry Association (SIA) Technology Management Conference. 
When Don says:
Microsoft as a team is working closely with Digipede Technologies to enable seamless programmatic integration [...]

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In his blog “Tales from a Trading Desk,” Matt Davey poses some interesting speculation:
Will any investment bank has the guts to deploy Mono on its servers to run .NET trading software? I’m not sure. If the bank has already deployed Microsoft .NET to all its workstations why wouldn’t it just use Microsoft .NET on the [...]

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Here are a few more observations based in part on Digipede’s experience at the Securities Industry Association (SIA) Technology Management Conference in New York this week. I posted about this earlier today; this post is less fact, more perspective.
For a small company like Digipede, a trade show can be a frightening investment. Travel [...]

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Well, it looks as though the Linux community has noticed Microsoft’s entry into the HPC market. 
In reviewing Tom Groenfeldt’s financial services blog on MSDN, I ran across a comment that led back to a longer post by Brad Chamberlin, expressing his incredulity that anyone could take an HPC offering from Microsoft seriously.  Brad’s comments are [...]

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Digipede’s trip to the Securities Industry Association (SIA) Technology Management Conference went better than planned. With a presence in four locations (the Digipede booth, Microsoft booth, HP booth, and the Microsoft / HP “break room”), we were rocking pretty hard for three days straight.
If you have not been to this event, it is unlike [...]

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I’m at the Securities Industry Association (SIA) Technology Management Conference at the Hilton in midtown Manhattan this week.  I took the redeye on JetBlue last night to make it to a meeting that’s been canceled, I’ve been ineptly “helping” Dan and Nathan set up the Digipede booth (#4506), and have not slept in exactly 24 [...]

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OK, let’s start with something simple — my trip to New York City last week for the Microsoft Financial Developers Conference.  Microsoft gathered four hundred of the Best and Brightest from Wall Street, Redmond, and even Oakland, for two days of give and take at the Millenium Broadway Hotel.  I went with Digipede Product Manager [...]

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