Gaining Altitude
As a company we're gaining altitude rapidly. With the completion of the
StockPicker application we now have a broad range of useful product offerings
and are ready to embrace some new technologies and to work them into our product
range. All software companies are faced with the need to continuously invest in
leading-edge technologies. We think it is a good investment that staff and
customers will appreciate over time.
Stock Picks
Pictured is the trading screen, recommending three buys and one sell. So far,
in live trials the stockpicker has made small gains on a portfolio of 20,000
imaginary dollars. But it has only been operating for 20 days. We look forward
to reporting the quarterly returns figure.
The application also features portfolio reporting and charting of closing
prices.
New Technologies
Over the last few months Hexagon has been working hard at delivering some
representative product ideas. Now we put that to one side temporarily as we
invest in three new technologies: Linq©, Silverlight© and Expression©.
There is a full treatment of this decision in the Director's Blog. Please click here for more.
Director's Blog
Q210 now out
On time, under budget as usual. This is a solid release with quite a large
number of development hours logged against it.
The Hexagon developers should be starting to show their class by now. And I can
see that the team that is responsible for the user interface has put a lot of
effort into the colours and the look-and-feel this time.
Hopefully you will all find it lovely to look at and a delight to use.
Because every release must be better than its predecessor we are investing in a
number of new design and development tools in order to improve the quality of our
deliverables to you, the customer.
Please read the latest post in the Director's Blog,
where my thoughts on this release and our current direction are treated more fully.