Hello Marketcetera users,
Apologies for a long delay in sending updates. We haven't been asleep
at Marketcetera - on the contrary, quite a few exciting events have
happened, and we'll address them in more details in the separate post.
But for those of you who are curious:
1. Marketcetera raised $4M in venture capital funding
(
http://www.marketwire.com/mw/release.do?id=841129 )
2. We are InformationWeek's Startup of the Week:
http://www.informationweek.com/news/software/open_source/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=207400184, plus quite a bit more press coverage
3. We've started growing our team. The first double-name at
Marketcetera is, of course, Toli - go figure, we now have two people
named Toli.
4. We moved (again). Growing team needs a bigger space, so we are now
at 2nd and Market in downtown San Francisco, across from Calypso
Technologies, and should stay here for a while.
Now that the engineering team is in place, a new release of the
Marketcetera Platform with updates and some new features should be
coming out fairly soon.
Which brings me to an important question: what are our community's
thoughts on moving to Java 6 from Java 5? There are quite a few
improvements that lend itself to better code readability and stability
in Java 6, and with JavaOne in town and only three blocks away, we are
feeling a little "behind" with Java 5 (and it just went into the
end-of-life period).
So I wanted to do an informal poll - how many people would object if
Marketcetera Platform moved to Java 6? The next release of the virtual
appliance will have the newer version of Java installed, and for
people running Marketcetera from binaries you can download/upgrade to
a newer version of Java as well.
So this is mostly for people developing and compiling from code - let
me know if switching to Java 6 will be a problem.
In addition, we've taken a lot of your feedback on making it easier to
compile the source code to heart, and we'll be announcing a new
source code repository layout in the next couple weeks. It will make
it a lot easier to get Marketcetera running from code for you.
You can either reply to me directly, or answer online via Google Docs poll:
http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?key=pbnUSFU_7w2jP3-_6loEtCQ&email=trueThanks, and happy trading!
--
Toli Kuznets
http://www.marketcetera.com: Open-Source Trading Platform
download.run.trade.
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