Hello y'all:

I am a recently retired software company professional. I am new to FOREX and am very interested in understanding what FOREX platforms are made of...

How are they developed? Using what technology?
How are they composed in their design?
Are the completely custom or do they leverage vendor technology like Oracle, Sun, Redhat, M$, etc.?

In my limited FOREX trading I have noticed some reliability issues on the client application (hanging, crashing, general slowness) and latency (slippage and rejected trades). This has peaked the engineering curiosity I have and thus my inquiries. Any insight would be interesting to the techies that do FOREX trading.

Thx in advance...

-Z