Forbes published an article suggesting some “high frequency trading” programmers have cut deals to earn them more of the profits from operating the trading applications they write. I wonder if CEP tool vendors – especially the ESP vendors usually involved in algo trading solutions – can do the same? I suspect this model is restricted to algo trading though – there aren’t many other apps that are so directly “profit generating”…
Coincidentally, John Bates published a similar post I see with a slightly different perspective on his blog – http://apama.typepad.com/my_weblog/2010/08/evacuate-the-dancefloor.html