![]() The company is adopting open source technologies such as Linux, Hadoop, and Solr and contributing code back upstream. The way Bloomberg keeps up with users’ expectations is changing, however, McCracken writes. The technology has withstood the test of time by continuously evolving to meet the needs of financial traders – though until recently new features have been largely developed with in-house, proprietary code. The modern terminals, which run on Windows, have appeared in two historical exhibits this year – at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View and Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C., he writes. The Bloomberg Terminal, which debuted in December 1982, is one of the computing industry’s “few truly enduring successes” alongside the PC and the Mac, writes Harry McCracken in Fast Company this week.
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