Nomura – Greenfield Development?
So it looks like Nomura is moving into prime time with its Lehman’s acquisition. Having splashed the cash and bought sensible pieces of Lehman’s, Nomura appear to be venturing down the road of building a new bank (front-office to settlement). At least this should keep the IT staff happy and in jobs for the foreseeable future. The only downside for Nomura is that I suspect they have a number of consultancies who supposedly specialise in “integration” knocking at their door as well to assist.
Anyone know if Nomura is bias to Java or .NET? If its .NET then one can only hope they are looking at WPF/Silverlight for their new banking software. Maybe Microsoft should go knocking at Nomura’s door and offer some Oslo free consultancy and software (as they did to Barcap prior to the release of .NET 2.0). Microsoft could probably do with some financial services press given the last large scale .NET application to gain any interest from the press was probably the LSE.
On another slant, Nomura’s new IT investment might like to have a look at Gigaspaces Cloud Framework – “One Click Cloud” 
Nomura have bits of both but are predominantly a Java shop. The Gigaspaces comment is interesting though. They started up a greenfield project earlier this year using Openspaces with heavy use of dynamic languages (Ruby, Groovy and Python). Gigaspaces aren’t anticipating any revenue from Nomura any time soon….