Even the largest banks are hurting maintaining proprietary software across the compete range of businesses - there is a multiplier effect as one proprietary piece demands another close to it, and eventually devs get sick of seeing the OSS world
acclerate
Away.
Deutsche Bank makes source code publicly available for the first time
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#12I wonder if the openness of cryptocurrency and blockchain tech prompted this in any way. edit: can someone explain why I'm getting downvoted?
That + bloomberg hate + symphony's ridiculously good reception in the markets. Symphony's starting look like it could be finance's heroku/slack.
Bloomberg hate is really only the management level. At the user level, it's mostly love. Of course, by and large, the user does not directly foot the $20K/year bill.
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#13"Computer code of Deutsche Bank" sounds so German and so cool :)
"I'm the operator with my pocket calculator"
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#15Great move. I really believe in the "free software, free society" idea of the FSF. After this batch, I'm sure there will still be a lot left to open source, but it's definitely a big step! If we're fortunate, others will follow suit. Germany is a great country for stuff like this. They have a relatively high share of Linux users, OpenStreetMap usage, etc. I feel like they're very critical towards their own country an…
I don't understand what exactly this code is about but I have problems imagining the Deutsche Bank as a company that acts "for the greater good".
As a german I envy you for your drug laws.
Re: Deutsche Bank makes source code publicly available for the first time
#16Great move. I really believe in the "free software, free society" idea of the FSF. After this batch, I'm sure there will still be a lot left to open source, but it's definitely a big step! If we're fortunate, others will follow suit. Germany is a great country for stuff like this. They have a relatively high share of Linux users, OpenStreetMap usage, etc. I feel like they're very critical towards their own country an…
As a related note, the FSF has a sister organization here in Europe, the FSFE: https://fsfe.org/
And to underline your point - its main office is in Germany :)
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#17"Computer code of Deutsche Bank" sounds so German and so cool :)
The bank has the distinction of being mentioned in Kraftwerk’s 1983 song Computer World:
”Interpol, Deutsche Bank, FBI, Scotland Yard, Flensburg und das BKA, haben unsere Daten da.”
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#18Get ready for a data dump of 40 year old COBOL code /s But in all seriousness, this is a great step forward in institutional software. Open up software to further progress towards standardizing an industry's software interface.
I would much prefer a bank using that over, say, Python
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#20Great move. I really believe in the "free software, free society" idea of the FSF. After this batch, I'm sure there will still be a lot left to open source, but it's definitely a big step! If we're fortunate, others will follow suit. Germany is a great country for stuff like this. They have a relatively high share of Linux users, OpenStreetMap usage, etc. I feel like they're very critical towards their own country an…
I don't understand what exactly this code is about but I have problems imagining the Deutsche Bank as a company that acts "for the greater good". As a german I envy you for your drug laws.
This seems to tie into bolstering the Symphony platform.