what's the deal?
literally? what do you think it's going to be?
I'm hoping for the "virtual exchange" concept to come forth... as in a multi-million dollar contract to modify spooztoolz software into a matching engine for a bigshot like google or yahoo. For this, it might make sense that STv2 should be kept off the market temporarily to keep a potential competitor from trying to create a similar system for their own virtual exchange. From what I gather, STv2 is a not just a nice piece of software, but also a new way of trading through its custom market creation ability. (Please correct any erroneous language here, I do not know as much about the software as many here who have seen the demos).
If the deal was just a hedge fund looking to use SWARM (not that that would be bad by any means!), why would they keep a lid on STv2? While SWARM is based in STv2, and a competitor might try to make something similar using STv2, I don't see how delaying the launch would affect this situation.
Perhaps the launch was just delayed because the deal required all the company focus/resources for the time being, but they were awfully close to launching... everything was pretty much set to go, and that was a big sacrifice on their part in terms of advertising, etc.
It is also interesting that the video demo is not available on the website, yet they are reportedly (martingale I think) still doing live demos. Are people seeing the demos now required to sign non-disclosure agreements or anything?
Anyhow, just some thoughts for you while you work your way towards Labor Day weekend. Whatever the deal may be, I am looking forward to the news like a kid on Christmas eve.
Good luck, and enjoy this lesson in patience! :D
gbathat
God grant me the serenity to deal with the things I cannot change; courage to change the things I can and should; and wisdom to know the difference.
