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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 […]

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If you’re a Microsoft partner, (specifically, in the Visual Studio Industry Partners, or VSIP program), and you have any sort of free offer, you owe it to yourself to check out something called an MSDN Flash.  (It is, of course, not easy to find this opportunity on the dreaded partner.microsoft.com site.  Searching on “MSDN Flash” finds a single […]

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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 is […]

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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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I spent the day yesterday at the Fairmont Hotel in San Jose where Dow Jones is holding an event called “Enterprise Ventures,” a matchmaking event where many VCs get together to hear many startups give short pitches.  I gave two 20-minute presentations about Digipede this afternoon, which is never bad practice, and I ended up with quite […]

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The grid computing world is abuzz — Sun has announced the Cool Apps Developer Challenge, with $50,000 in prizes available to developers who put their applications on the Sun Grid Compute Utility.   Haven’t we been here before?  And more importantly — haven’t we gotten beyond this yet?  Since early 1999 (at least), there have been […]

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Greg Nawrocki, as usual, hits some good points today in his posting about Sun Grid.  His main point is that the key to grid adoption is available apps, and I could not agree more.  This is exactly why we put so much energy and effort into our API, why we give away the Digipede Network […]

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We get questions about how the Digipede Network compares to Vendor X or Open Source Project Y pretty often; a recent example is from Matt Davey’s Tales from a Trading Desk, where Matt asked: .NET Grid Computing. Not sure what it’s advantages are over and above DataSynapse. Would be interested to know if anyone has […]

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Those who wonder where the mainstream grid computing applications are may want to attend Dan Ciruli’s next Webcast today at 10:00 AM Pacific Daylight Time.  Today he’ll talk about scaling out Web services using the Digipede Network, an area of interest for our customers (watch the Digipede Case Studies page for descriptions of current and […]

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