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[TJ wrote]
Not really. maybe in windoze, but the more i've read about linux, the
more i think it's doable. i considered reassembling my old
programming team and giving it a go with linux, something i considered
many years ago before purchasing ts3. if my guys could handle control
process programming and acoustic control feedback loops, then a server
/ charting package in linux shouldn't be too difficult, at least so
they tell me (i was the hardware guy on the team). but finding the
time is another matter.
My friend, you don't have a clue what it takes to produce good, commercial
level software these days. In your transition from hardware guru to trader
you've lost touch with what it takes to write broad-scale commercial
software these days.
Andy is 100% correct. Go out an assemble your software team (C++/Windows
coders only please), spend the $100,000's dollars required to build this
grade of software in a reasonable amount of time. Take into account the
real time delivery of quotes, required high level of reliability, the huge
amount of data delivered to the screen and saved to disk. The engineering
hurdles in a program like Tradestation goes on and on.
While this is going on, assemble and pay ( hundreds of thousands over a
year's time) the team required to verify that everything is stable and
correctly working. Then assemble and pay the team it takes to write the
documentation and help files. Assemble and pay the team it takes to produce
the kinds of visual graphic presentation expected in today's commercial
software. Then assemble the team it takes to handle the front office,
marketing and customer service. Then release your software on a platform
that only academics and computer geeks use. Make your software incompatible
with Windows and you'll have less business than the Maytag repair man.
Oh and keep paying your software and QA teams to fix the bugs reported after
the product is released. At the same time you'll need to pay more engineers
to work on the next version.
I'm afraid what you'll find out when all is said and done is that Andy was
right after all.
TS is by no means a trivial program. It's extremely complex and
sophisticated. TS5 with full COM support is even more that way. For
example, some details of writing COM servers are still undocumented. You
have to call Microsoft to get answers.
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