The QuickFIX engine

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Imported from previous forum

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Hi,

Are there any success stories that can be used to convince business people in general that the QuickFIX engine is a nice software tool that we also should use in our organization?

I tried it and I am already found of it.

/ Jan Jonsson

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I used “part of it” before as it saved us having to write code to parse and unparse FIX messages…

nice to add to c# or c flavour environments

Hi,

Are there any success stories that can be used to convince business
people in general that the QuickFIX engine is a nice software tool that
we also should use in our organization?

I tried it and I am already found of it.

/ Jan Jonsson

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Hi,

We have been using QuickFIX in production since 2001 and migrated to QuickFIX/J last year with great success. We use it both for trading and market data distribution.

I also know of many banks and exchanges using it.

Cheers,
George.
Macdonald Associates.

I used “part of it” before as it saved us having to write code to parse
and unparse FIX messages…

nice to add to c# or c flavour environments

Hi,

Are there any success stories that can be used to convince business
people in general that the QuickFIX engine is a nice software tool
that we also should use in our organization?

I tried it and I am already found of it.

/ Jan Jonsson

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Thanks!

Did you have any performance issues with QuickFIX?
I did notice that using a log-factory and store that store like default to files is not that fast on my desktop PC.
Replacing log and store with an own version that moves all that load to another PC gives greater performance.

I know there are others also looking into QuickFIX, and I guess they also have this two major concerns:

  1.    List of others using it (else we choose a big expensive vendor, “you never got fired for choosing IBM”) 

  2.    Performance. Are there any proof of concept regarding how fast an implementation using QuickFIX can be, and what was the major steps to make it fast.

Reasons for choosing QuickFIX are many,
FIX is the future and we would like to have know how and understanding of it in-house.

/ Jan Jonsson