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I am in Bellevue, Washington today and tomorrow for a meeting of Microsoft partners in financial services.  The meeting is in one of Microsoft’s many local offices.  (If any of my loyal Microsoft readers want to get together, please contact me and we’ll work something out.) The financial services IT market is going through some interesting […]

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OK, we do a lot of Webcasts, and I don’t plug most of them here, but I’ll call attention to this one.  Dan and I have an MSDN Webcast called “Scaling SOA in Financial Services with Grid Computing for .NET” on June 12 at 10:00 AM Pacific time — mark your calendar now.  Here’s the MSDN […]

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Marc at Magmasystems relates his findings from a recent trip to London, where he says: Got together with some ex-colleagues, who were marvelling at the Lodnon consulting market. The hot areas are Grid Computing, with the prevelant stack being DataSynapse and Tangasol. Also demand is picking up for WPF, with Morgan Stanley leading the way. […]

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On Wednesday, December 6, Microsoft, Digipede, and other Microsoft HPC partners will host a half-day informational event describing how to achieve faster “time to insight” from computationally intensive financial applications.  Nathan Trueblood and I will be there (with one or more Digipede customers and a bunch of our friends from Microsoft) to help make this […]

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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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