I believe that CS, have something really good on the horizon with the new platform. The technical effort involved in creating a service with a speed demand of milliseconds, is challenging, both from a software and a hardware perspective. This is not just an ordinary web site, it must handle a huge number of orders going through the system, where the main issue is cost, security and lightning speed. There is also network latency to be considered. I think CS is on the right track. It will be very interesting to see how the new platform will perform, when it is implemented, under heavy traffic and stress.hi simon
just a tip from someone who used to make websites.
when the developers show you their new creation they will do so on a lighting fast machine with big screens running no other programs. ask them to show you how it works on an average machine with average screen say 2-3 year old running other open programs together that the average punter might have including at least 3 charts, metatrader, ransquawk, skype, email client, news site etc.
speed rather than features [like the unnecessary java on the home page] is of more use. developers like to make things 'feature rich' whereas users prefer speed.