Blocks vs Streams – Part 2

A few weeks ago we blogged about how block trades have been melting into streams. Buy side, and sell side institutions have already, for the most part, incorporated the new paradigm into their business models.  This week we get news that another exchange has figured it out.  The Deutsche Börse made an announcement that they [...]

Activ Feed Coverage

Just wanted to follow-up last week’s post and thank everyone for getting the word out about our partnership with ACTIV. Tom Groenfeldt at Technology & Finance and the finance folks at Low-Latency and The Trade News broke the news. Leslie Kramer at FinanceTech and the staff at Automated Trader covered our partnership with the leading low-latency provider on the day of [...]

Marketcetera and Activ Market Data

As you might have seen, this week we announced support of Activ real-time market data in the Marketcetera Platform.  Given the limited space in a press release, we weren’t able to say very much about why we think this is a great opportunity.

OpenLogic study on commercial open source support

A recent study by OpenLogic found that only 38 percent of enterprises said they were satisfied with the support they received from a commercial open source organization. Despite these low marks for commercial support vendors, respondents still valued open source software—79.2 percent found OSS as good or better than comparable proprietary software. And if we [...]