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My opinion, real time data should be free. We've paid enough, thousands of
us, each
month making these guys fat cats. What do we get for supporting BMI for all
these years
or these beloved boxes of ours which made these guys mega-rich? No respect.
That is
what we've gotten.
BMI had last year 48,000 boxes installed. Rates range from $69/month, up to
like $2000,
for everything, so let's say the average was $200. That is $9.6 million per
MONTH.
This does not include Signal, or other products. So the real question, is
how we can
solve the dilema of getting realtime data. They are making Operating
Systems like
Linux free. StarOffice a competitor to Microsoft Office from Sun is free.
Why shouldn't
financial data be Free?
Why on earth would I be saying such lunacy you ask. It is because at $9.6
million per month,
and being a BMI customer, I think we deserve some respect. I am tired of
corporate giants
acting like this, aren't you? My attitude to them is PISS OFF. But the
problem with that, is
they can tell me to take my business somewhere else... and since they
virtually have a monopoly...
God damn! When is FutureSource's prices going to come down, because they
might be
our last hope of a quality caring financial service provider, from what I
can see.
----- Original Message -----
From: "wong" <whs@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, May 12, 2000 11:24 AM
Subject: Re: DBC Microsoft Mentality
> Hi All:
>
> I meant to mention this little piece of news, but I kept forgetting...
>
> 2 days ago, I received a phone call from DBC. The gentleman tried to
> persuade me to switch from DBC Signals (real time) to the internet service
> they provided (forget the name). I said "no thank you, Signal is just
fine
> for me because I'm using TS4 and TS4 doesn't support internet
transmission."
>
> He said most likely the real-time Signal service for TS4 will be phased
out
> in about 1 or 2 years' time. He suggested I'd better upgrade to
TS2000....
>
> I guess eventually I will be forced to upgrade to TS2000 in the next 2
> years. Hopefully, by that time, most of the headaches relating to TS2000
> will be ironed out.
>
>
> Does anyone else receive a phone message as I had?
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Wong
> =============================
> At 02:08 PM 05/12/2000 -0700, [ tradergirl ] wrote:
> >I received the following reply.
> >
> >Robert
> >
> >Mr. Cummings,
> >Thanks for your email. Due to bandwidth constraints, broadcast systems,
> >meaning both Signal and BMI broadcast system boxes do not have the
> >bandwidth to keep up with the active trading that's occurring in today's
> >markets. DBC makes no effort to conceal the situation.
> >For this reason, DBC recommends eSignal to all existing and prospective
> >customers. Internet is the only medium with a wide enough bandwidth to
> >transmit the data.
> >Sincerely,
> >L. D. Prunty
> >Technical Support Representative
> >http://www.dbc.com
> >
> >^^ okay.
> >
> >What they are doing, since I am pretty damn good at computers, is telling
> >you the Internet has more bandwidth than Cable. What they are doing is
> >lying.
> >Look at Cable modems. Look at television. Cable. The only thing faster
is
> >a fiberoptic backbone, like coming in from an OC3.....
>
>
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