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> I have been browsing FIXprotocol site out of interest for couple of > months, but I have no Finance background (but I have server > programming exp.) > > Given so many FIX engine out in the market, would it make sense to > develop a new product, and what would be the "killer feature"? > > I have been thinking if "low latency", "fault tolerant" & "number of > simulataneous connections", could make a difference, and if so can get > these figures for best FIX engine in the market. > > Any other ideas for improvements that is lacking in current FIX > engines around? > > Thanks, > > Nick. Hi Nick, You're right about the fact that there are a number of different commercial FIX engines available. There are also several open-source projects out there - most notably the QuickFix projects. In the context of open-source or non-commercial offerings, I would suggest that a great idea would be the development of a new fix engine that targets the .NET platform. We already have QuickFix/J out there, which provides great functionality on the Java side of the world, but on the C#/.NET side of things the best we seem to have right now is the C# bindings that are supported by the QuickFix/C++ project. Considering the number of firms that are adopting .NET for trading applications, I think this would be an excellent time to start an OSS project to develop a .NET/C# FIX engine. Otherwise, I'd probably say that considering the number of excellent commercial engines that are already available, you might have more fun developing interesting new tools that support FIX rather than trying to build yet another FIX engine... [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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
