There are a couple of interesting business articles in today’s Sunday Times. First off we have a Goldman bonus article, similar to what has been printed by various papers over the last week or so. I suspect City Boy has a view on Goldman.

CIA hiring Wall Street talent – salary could be the main issue for ex-Wall Street employees.

If Barclays really wants to displace Goldman Sachs as the pre-eminent player in the world then its going to have it’s work cut out over the next few year giving the success Goldman’s is currently having.

“This Web browser or operating system may not be compatible with Silverlight. Please review the system requirements and, if you wish to proceed, choose the link for your operating system.”

I believe 2.0.172.33 is the latest version of Google Chrome, hence it appear that Google and Microsoft have a problem – IE and Firefox work fine with the Silverlight 3 RTW release

Read all about it here. If your on a project that is using a Silverlight 3 beta, you need to schedule the move to Silverlight RTM into the next iteration

Reuters break the story, Zero Hedge offers a view.

If Microsoft has lost its Windows/.NET foot hold in the LSE and it was related to issues in old versions of SQL Server/Windows, it may at least say some face by disclosing the issues and validating that they are fixed in news version of its database/OS. Speculation alone could damage Microsoft in the capital markets world.

On the flip side, it looks like today wasn’t a good day for the NYSE. Microsoft doesn’t appear to be blamed for the NYSE issues. NYSE SDBK is a server-based system based on NYSE Arca – the SuperDOT replacement. Anyone know what NYSE SDBK was written in? Java on Linux?

NASDAQ OMX Market Replay Europe provides users with instant access to historical quote and trade data from major European exchanges. Filter by exchange for a more targeted view of the market. Analyze execution quality and monitor MIFID compliance within minutes of trade execution.

Video here, or sign up for a free account and install (AIR and Administrator access required) the RIA – 2nd February 2009 data only available on the free trial.

Here’s my pick of the articles to read:

• Securing The .NET Service Bus
• Composite Web Apps With Prism
• Distributed Caching On The Path To Scalability
• Request-Response Testing With F#
• Building Tuple
• Usability Testing

Other postings worth reading in blog land:

• My F# Notes
• LAgent
• MVVM light toolkit for WPF and Silverlight
• Azure worker role development tips
• 20 User Experience Books you should own
• PragPub

e-Forex has an article on CEP and FX: while trading and trade-related projects like smart order routing (SOR) accounted for 48% of existing use cases, areas like risk management and market data were making “double-digit headway”.

“While the initial usage of CEP technology was in equities trading and algorithms, it has since moved out into other asset classes. The need for CEP – be it in FX or other asset classes – is driven in areas where there is high throughput, low latency and a need for faster decisions. Traction is certainly building in FX, especially compared to recent for tunes of the equities market.”

A new twist on machine-readable feeds. Has StreamBase found a new opportunity to weld social networks and trading? Something for Microsoft to consider with Orinoco.