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What do all you RT's think about this??

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> From: Mark Johnson <mjohnson@xxxxxxxxxx>
> To: David Neal <dneal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: Free Replacement for TS
> Date: Monday, October 13, 1997 3:03 PM
> 
> David that is how I envisioned life!!  More POWER! POWER! POWER!.  I have
a
> background in C++ and would love to learn some java!!  Count me in for
some
> coding time if the list can agree on a standard.  I think we need to get
> some top minds to come up with an open standard , and see if the list
could
> produce.  I'm interested!!!
> 
> Very interesting,
> Mark Johnson
> 
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> > From: David Neal <dneal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > To: omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: Free Replacement for TS
> > Date: Monday, October 13, 1997 2:01 PM
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > I have been reading with great interest the discussions over
> > a free replacement for ts since I too have been wishing for
> > just that thing.
> > 
> > 
> > I envisioned thing a bit differntly, however.  
> > 
> > #1 -- 100 % Java (laugh if you like, but computers are getting
> >  faster all the time, and by the time this project is done,
> >  they'll be fast enough!)
> > 
> > #2 -- open api for datafeeds, datatools and components based
> >    on the tibco's rendezvous model.  I.E. all subscribers, publishers
> > and maniupulators use generic self describing data/methods.
> >    ex:  datafeed publishes:  datafeed.index.spx with elements 
> >      like (open, high, low, last) programs interested in this
> >       data subscribe to datafeed.index.spx, programs interested
> >       in all index data just subscribe to datafeed.index.*
> > 
> >     user programs can then subscribe to data, and publish indicators,
> >     the abstraction makes this much easier.  In fact, you can publish
> >     the data in multiple categories: stock.ibm.buy (targetreached)
> >     stock.buy.ibm (targetreached)
> >     buy.ibm (targetreached)
> > 
> >     the point is you end up with several little modules each
> >     doing what they do best, and not necessarily all on the
> >     same computer. want to run your datafeed on your 486
> >     you analysis on the pentium pro and have trading screens
> >     all over the house on linux x-terminals? go right ahead!
> > 
> >     Watch CNN/fn with your web-tv in a pip window and speed
> >     dial your broker on the portable phone when you get a buy
> >     signal.  yee-hah.
> > 
> > #3 -- trading libraries that offer the same functionality
> >    as the ts indicators and functions do now so we aren't
> >    all re-inventing the wheel all the time.  
> > 
> > Anyone interested?  I was just about to start on the datafeed
> > abstraction piece when this conversation started.
> > 
> > I can get excited about never having to talk to the dde
> > interface used by omega research.
> > 
> >