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Thanks for extensive reply. I am not eying big market as of now so i will prefer to build (Precisely for my know how about FIX and its implementation) and then our company will see how to go about it. > > I am new to FIX protocol. I had done some development for exchange > > gateway in c++ using ad hoc protocol setup. Now i wanted to migrate > > all my gateway server in FIX 4.2 protocol. and i want to do it from > > scratch . > > > > Please advice me is it possible to develop FIX engine in c#?if yes > > then how much performance will affect compare to c++ ? > > > > As of now i was following FIX forum i found every body recommending > > C++ and Java. > Well, we wrote our FIX engine in C# precisely because we were able to > achieve better results using C# than C++ (we have both capabilities plus > Java). We've also had clients complain about the C# bindings of > QuickFIX,along with the fact that it a) hasn't been updated in years > (the RSS feeds last report activity in 2006), b) has unclear ownership / > liability (the licence lists a website as being the copyright holder > which, as far as I am aware, cannot be correct in law as a website is > not a legal entity), c) has no support for any updates post-2006 so far > as we've been able to ascertain, and d) requires that support be paid > extra at quite a high rate OR that a programmer able to configure and > install (and modify) QuickFIX be employed by the company deploying. > Remember the old maxim : there's no such thing as a free lunch! Apart > from my (possibly biased) rant against QF (and open source in general), > there is no reason not to use C#. And, just to be clear, there are other > C# engine vendors so if you decide to buy, rather than build, you should > do the research to ensure you get what you want. [You can unsubscribe from this discussion group by sending a message to mailto:[email protected]] --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Financial Information eXchange" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/FIX-Protocol?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
