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From: sehyo@netcom.com (Sehyo Chang)
Subject: Re: Looking for finance class lib for PPS
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Markus Richardson (markus@bnr.ca) wrote:
: Anyone know of a finance class library that is commercially available?
: I'm talking about something the Banking industry would wish to use.
: To handle amoritization schedules and the like.  

: I looked in the Smalltalk FAQ and saw nothing WRT any class libs.

: I looked in the Smalltalk Store Catalog and found some Math-based libraries
: called MathPack.  But no mention about finance-type stuff.

: We already have the Xerox Analyst package which has a built-in spreadsheet.
: But we don't want the spreadsheet mentality even though many would say
: that it fits the finance industry like a glove. Don't want to argue on
: that point just now :-)  From what I could tell, removing their model classes
: from their view classes looks pretty painful!

: Any pointers would be appreciated.

: Markus R.
: markus@bnr.ca

I have developed bunch of finanical classes for my investment activity.
These includes fixed price instruments, amortization, options(black-shole)
and general Drivative algorithms.

I may pursuaded to release parts of it as shareware or product if there
is enough interest in it.

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Sehyo Chang
Virtual Enterprise Technology, Inc
