The Bloomberg Terminal, Explained

Re:The Bloomberg Terminal, Explained by fn42 on Friday December 20, 2019 @06:37AM (#21843353)

I was at a financial startup ~ 2012 and remember getting a couple of these to play with. They came in the form of 1U servers (HP I think) running RHEL5 that each needed a public IP that was open to bloomberg. I think the client app was windows only at that time, I wonder how much has changed

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Re:The Bloomberg Terminal, Explained by zmk_ on Friday December 20, 2019 @07:24AM (#21843603)

I do not think it runs on anything but windows, but you can install the terminal software on any Windows computer you want. They are now selling "Anywhere" subscriptions that basically let you move from one machine to another.

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Re:The Bloomberg Terminal, Explained by akhilcacharya on Friday December 20, 2019 @07:41AM (#21843705)

It does not, but you can use a Citrix Receiver client to RDP into an hosted instance.

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Re:The Bloomberg Terminal, Explained by lallysingh on Friday December 20, 2019 @07:43AM (#21843714)

Almost nothing changes with it. I wonder if they're still 32 bit?

I'm guessing the RHEL boxes were for VPN gateways?

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Re:The Bloomberg Terminal, Explained by akhilcacharya on Friday December 20, 2019 @07:44AM (#21843729)

The architecture of Terminal V2 is significantly different! And I'm still not sure if it's launched!

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Re:The Bloomberg Terminal, Explained by exikyut on Friday December 20, 2019 @07:54AM (#21843783)

This sounds very interesting, and naturally googling doesn't find anything relevant. Anywhere I can read/learn more?

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Re:The Bloomberg Terminal, Explained by lallysingh on Friday December 20, 2019 @12:06PM (#21845594)

Which Terminal V2? There have been quite a few attempts over the years...

Remember it's like a 30 yr old platform. The more times they try to kill it and fail the stronger it becomes.

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Re:The Bloomberg Terminal, Explained by akhilcacharya on Friday December 20, 2019 @12:08PM (#21845610)

The one with tabs and Chromium I'm guessing ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Re:The Bloomberg Terminal, Explained by shozimo on Friday December 20, 2019 @03:30PM (#21847135)

I interned at Bloomberg this summer and there was an announcement that B2 (what you're maybe referring to as V2) will be sunsetted, although some of the major improvements will be ported over to B1 (the "original" version). Unfortunately, tabs were not one of the things they'd be porting :(

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Re:The Bloomberg Terminal, Explained by nly on Friday December 20, 2019 @11:06PM (#21849545)

B1 recently gained tabs. They still haven't figured out how to reflow text like B2 did though.

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Re:The Bloomberg Terminal, Explained by akhilcacharya on Friday December 20, 2019 @03:40PM (#21847210)

Oh no! That's a shame to hear. I did prefer using new tabs instead of new windows.

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