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I am pretty familiar with release 4 of Eurex, which includes the implementation
of the GUI for many of the clearing functions, in addition to the trading GUI. I
think you will find that the transition to the GUI will not be difficult if the
individuals have exposure to a typical Windows or other GUI environment. There
were some difficulty in Europe when the Eurex GUI was first implemented, and many
firms had limited use of PCs. There were a lot of people whose career was based
on being to rapidly move from screen to screen in the old system, creating the
kind of situations that John has mentioned. Adoption of the GUI has been pretty
clean, however, and is considered a big part of the success of Eurex.
Regards
DanG
I4Lothian@xxxxxxx wrote:
> In the coming months there will be a transition of online trading systems
> from the ORAPI (TOPS Order Routing API) to the FIX API and EUREX API....
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> This change is not just about the technology and interfaces upgrading or
> evolving. It is also about the cumulative knowledge of the people supporting
> TOPS based systems being replaced by people trying to learn the new order
> management tools and systems.
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> Many of the support people who have been trained on the menu driven DOS-like
> TOPS will need to adjust to dealing with Windows -like functionality. Some
> of these people will have to be replaced with people with greater
> technological know-how. However, some of these tech-oriented people may not
> have the market skills and market problem solving intuition that their
> predecessors had. These tradeoffs will take time to work themselves out....
>
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