Bloomberg Open Sources Its Market Data Distribution Technology

First time accepted submitter Cara_Latham writes "Hoping to spur innovation and collaboration, Bloomberg LP is opening its market data interfaces to anyone, without cost or restriction. The market data provider's application programming interface (API), known as BLPAPI (Bloomberg LP API), is already used by Bloomberg, its clients and other technology providers to build connections between financial firms' applications and Bloomberg's market data and applications. Today any technology professional, or even students at a university, can access BLPAPI to quickly build connections to market data feeds. The BLPAPI interface works with a number of programming languages and operating systems, including Java, C, C++, .NET, COM and Perl."

Philanthropy

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Wow this is amazing! Kudos to Bloomberg for such an unexpected and generous gift! Why, now anyone at all can connect to Bloomberg's proprietary and expensive market data feeds. That's what I call true philanthropy.