August 13, 2008Dear Valued Customer,
On December 1, 2008 we will be raising our prices for the BLOOMBERG PROFESSIONAL service. We wanted to give as much notice as we could to help in your planning process.
The increase will be $90 per terminal / per month for Multiple Terminal Customers and $100 per terminal / per month for Single Terminal Customers.
Increases take effect on the date of renewal for your existing terminals.
Thank you for being a customer.
Yours truly,
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I Think We All Know What This Means: One Bloomberg Terminal For All Citi Employees
Posted by Bess Levin, Aug 13, 2008, 4:55pm
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Posted by GinNTonic, Aug 13, 2008 5:48PM
Ugh... now we're going to get the "Would you rather have Bloomberg or Cap IQ" questions from biz mgmt.
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Posted by guest, Aug 13, 2008 6:51PM
And the geniuses at Merrill Lynch had to sell their stake in this cash machine just to keep the lights on.
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Posted by guest, Aug 13, 2008 7:07PM
I really wouldn't mind the additional cost if the people who work on the help desk knew anything. Used to be you'd call help and they'd actually, you know, help. Now you get some 'effin moron using that 'effin dialog box that takes forever to type stuff into and then they don't know what the they're doing.
Pisses me off.
Oh, and then some guy calls from B Berg the other day and wants to talk about foreign exch. and how he can help me. I had to tell him several times that I don't do FX - how about we just cut out some fat and keep the price where it is?
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Posted by guest, Aug 13, 2008 7:38PM
god, i remember we had this big factset vs. compustat debate a few years back. (yes, even though you can get compustat thru factset). shit actually got personal....people are such idiots. i wanted to kill this dumb bitch...who was the fucking intern at the time!!...she actually stopped talking to me b/c she was offended or something..
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Posted by guest, Aug 13, 2008 7:51PM
@5:00PM, You realize censorship of rude words is the least of your worries? Bbg forward all message content on to the NSA for sophisticated semantic analysis and data mining by farms of super computers.
http://online.wsj.com/article_print/SB120511973377523845.html
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Posted by guest, Aug 13, 2008 8:05PM
Factset is so much better, the consultants actually know what they are doing.
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Posted by guest, Aug 13, 2008 8:38PM
I can probably wrangle up a couple of retro Telerate terminals for those who are in total dire straits. Comes with green screen technology (will have extensive phosphor burn-in) and keyboards with cigarette burns and 15+ year old coffee stains.
Alternatively, those with slightly deeper pockets might be interested in newer technology - a back office quote server running on a 286. Client software might not run on Windows versions greater than 3.1.
--Calgary Schmooze
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Posted by guest, Aug 13, 2008 9:08PM
at some point, GOOG will open source streaming quotes, chart builder APIs, etc. and integrated links with their doc sharing crap, and Bloomberg will be out of business ... and if GOOG won't do it, some kid in a dorm room will
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Posted by guest, Aug 13, 2008 9:59PM
Citi only had one terminal on the 19th at 388. No one knew how to use it. Kinda funny...
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Posted by guest, Aug 13, 2008 10:59PM
...bloomberg is so frustrating, i am also a much bigger fan of factset. funny to see the young monkeys struggle w Bloomberg
http://www.wallstreetoasis.com/forums/bloomberg-a-little-help-please
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Posted by guest, Aug 14, 2008 9:38AM
factset sucks too! I think MQA with Clarifi is the best option.
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Posted by guest, Aug 14, 2008 9:58AM
@ 7:38 -
Ummm... little vague. You may want to go into more detail.
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Posted by guest, Aug 14, 2008 2:09PM
@ 11 - HAHAHA, someone else from the 19th Floor at 388 huh? Bess change the title, Shitty employees already share Bloomberg terminals...
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Posted by Ben_H, Aug 13, 2008 5:00PM
For the extra $90, will Nanny Bloomberg let me at long last again use the word "fuck" in my bbrg messages? I've started writing "fukk" and "sh1t" and "asss" in my email messages out of sheer habit. I'm a big enough ninny as it is without the taboo deformations...