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The April poll has been posted at Low-Latency.com and it asks our viewers “What application is your latency concern?” Choices include Algorithm Trading, Smart Order Routing (SOR), Complex Event Processing (CEP), Risk analysis/Valuations, or simply “Other”.

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The March poll pondered how latency could be reduced - through software, custom hardware, or some combination thereof. Only 19 percent felt that speed could be achieved through the use of software or hardware alone. That leaves 81 percent espousing a combination of the two - or something else. What else might there be?

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It’s been a while I know, but this blogging business just keeps getting pushed to the bottom of the list. My thanks then to “Uncle” Tom Groenfeldt for alerting me on his blog to the recent departure from Sun Microsystems of Larry Scott, where he was vice president for financial services. Larry is going somewhere, though he’s not telling, at least not yet. But his departure jogged my memory to some offline conversations I’ve been having of late, not least during the Linux on Wall Street conference that I chaired the other week.

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Is it possible to reduce latency? The answer is probably “yes” for just about everyone reading this article. How? The latest poll at Low-Latency.com asks that very question.
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The February poll, addressing spend on reducing latency, at Low-Latency.com reaffirmed two platitudes that stand the test of time - the “80/20 rule” and “either you have it or you don’t”. See the graphic below.
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Please excuse the headline … I wanted to be cute and grab some attention. When it comes to market data rates, OPRA - the Options Price Reporting Authority - makes the headlines that low latency vendors (and industry analysts) love to cite - because the numbers are so frighteningly big. The reality, though, is a bit different.
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The new poll at Low-Latency.com asks about cumulative spend for realizing low latency.

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The January Poll at Low-Latency.com focused on FIX and FAST usage across the industry. The results are what many in the industry view as “normal”. See the graphic below.

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There was quite a bit of M&A activity last week. Oracle and BEA for $8.5 billion (we’ll have to see whether that’s good news for BEA’s Weblogic Event Server), Sun Microsystems and MySQL for a billion, and NYSE-Euronext snapping up Wombat Financial Software for $200 million.
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There is a new poll at Low-Latency.com - and the question is subtle yet poignant. You can see the poll in the right-hand margin on the website.
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