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Re[3]: The time has arrived for Linux FreeMarket or similar



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Mark:

Ok, on that note...is there a unix based spreadsheet program similar 
to excel that could get us there? I have a copy of PVwave somewhere 
from a platform I had built in the mid-90's in a small trading desk 
situation. There was also Marketvision...I seem to remember there are 
others. 

Tim Morge



On Fri, 8 Dec 2000 11:38:29 -0600, Mark Brown  wrote:
>Hello  Kimberly,
>
>I also would be using excel however it simply can not handle large
>projects, it runs like a dog. If it were faster and the data
>manipulation not a pain I'd be all over it. I and others have
>continually attempted to do things in excel but when your finished
>your a slave to maintaining the monster you created. That's why you
>need Unix based platforms to do really complicated task with great
>dependability and on mammoth scale. Otherwise a windows platform is
>ok
>and much easier to use, though less stable.
>
>K> Question: ideas on how to implement the charting at the level of
>K> sophistication required by intra-day analysis?
>K> Kimberly
>
>
>
>
>
>--
>Best regards,
> Mark Brown   mailto:markbrown@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Y = Offset + Amplitude * sin(Frequency * X)


-- Timothy Morge, tmorge@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx on 12/08/2000