[londev]

I’ve not used Symphony for a year or so but it felt like the kind of thing my team could have built in a couple of months. I wouldn’t use it in the same sentence as Bloomberg, other than to say Bloomberg has nothing to worry about.

[JackFr]

I think Symphony is terrible, and it does look like something one could code up in a weekend. But ...

Bloomberg News famously abused the trust of the banks:

https://www.vox.com/2015/7/24/11615004/backed-by-15-banks-st...

If the banks mandate that their traders use something else, they will. I don't think they're quite there yet, but Bloomberg is not all powerful.

[user5994461]

Agreed, it's irrelevant with Bloomberg.

However it's a good story of making software in a very crowded domain and getting large enterprise customers right away nonetheless. Symphony is certainly is a catastrophe for Slack, a last minute competitor capturing all of the big financial firms.