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As I understand it (and please correct me Mark If I'm wrong) the main
advantages would be multi tick data charts and double precision
computations.
Steve
----- Original Message -----
From: Howard Jackson <hrjf4@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, February 11, 2000 10:59 AM
Subject: Re: TraderWare Special Decoding
> Putting all this clutter, jokes, and PR BS aside what
> is the revolutionary advantage that TW offers?
>
> If we assume product 'A' is established, and has
> significant market share. A product 'B' would have to
> have significant advantages over 'A' in order to have
> any significant number of users jump over.
> The advantages that 'B' has over 'A' need to offset
> the RISK of moving to a new unknown product (and
> non-established company), cover the COSTS of moving
> over, and offer ADDITIONAL profits to make it all
> worth (why all that work just to break even?).
>
> Having said all that, I may be missing something but
> what is TW offering that will make it that much better
> than anything else out there?
>
> 1. As confusing as EasyLanguage might be, it can
> accomplish pretty much anything you want. And while VB
> is and easy programming language, it is a programming
> language that can be very costly to learn well enough
> to use with a trading product (and if you do, you can
> also use DLLs with EZL...). It is so flexible, you
> will find very little examples of things you can do
> trading wise...
> 2. Omega offers a lot more datafeed choices than TW
> 3. Lets assume there are no significant differences in
> usability issues (I will still have to learn all new
> menues, icons, etc - COST)
> 4. The system reporting capabilities of ts100 are
> pretty damn good. I don't even know what tw offers.
>
> And so on. There seems to be little or no advantage of
> TW over ts100 so why whould I even bother? as the TW
> people admit, it will be VERY costly to move over...
> and this is not only software $$, but learning and
> setup time as well.
>
> Anyone?
>
> H
>
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