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by actinium226 351 days ago
Bloomberg did a similar thing decades ago, where they had their own database and their own take on TCP/IP. But this was done out of necessity since they started in the 80's and the database landscape looked very different than it does today.

They continued with their own db for decades out of inertia and also it worked fine. I think they've long since switched to TCP/IP and the public internet (for a time there was a Bloomberg network parallel to the public internet).
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apaprocki 351 days ago
Yes, and our database, ComDb2, was open-sourced. It still powers the company today. And yes, we use TCP/IP :) And yes, we still have one of the largest private networks in the world.

https://github.com/bloomberg/comdb2

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