Friday, April 16, 2004
Python in Finance
Peter gave a quick overview of finance (sales/trading side) and pondered on the reasons for using open source in this environment. I think I may have to sue him for stealing a point I made yesterday -- we (often) don't use OS due to cost reasons (in fact he reasoned that it's not cheap) but because it avoids the procurement process which is too slow and painful.
He then went on to give examples of the use of python in the front office environment.
Peter gave a quick overview of finance (sales/trading side) and pondered on the reasons for using open source in this environment. I think I may have to sue him for stealing a point I made yesterday -- we (often) don't use OS due to cost reasons (in fact he reasoned that it's not cheap) but because it avoids the procurement process which is too slow and painful.
He then went on to give examples of the use of python in the front office environment.
