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At 10:43 08/12/00 -0800, markbrown@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>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.
Depends how you design your system - I use Excel together with a
Futuresource feed and it works just fine because the Futuresource server is
doing most of the hard work, Excel only handles the visualization. Excel
doing all the work including database handling would be very ugly indeed.
Maintenance can be a problem, but it's overcomable with good coding. The
issue is that most traders (understandably) have neither the time nor the
inclination to become deeply involved in programming. On the other hand,
if you do put the work in you get totally customized, slick visualizations.
Personally I can't see the Freemarkets project getting very far. It
doesn't have a profit motive, yet that is the be-all and end-all of its
target users.
Regards,
Stefan Schulz
Suaviter Limited
prog1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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