You sure can. In fact I know of at least one company that's doing just that.

The application logistics are probably the least of your worries - the most important ones most likely are interfaces to the stockbrokers that would allow you the actual trading. That usually takes deals to make happen unless you already have the connection.

William Plander is one to talk to. They've done a ton of stuff with this market and he can probably point you in the right direction, although things are probably a bit different again in the UK...

+++ Rick ---



>Hi
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>I have a client who wants to set up an intenet based stock order and validation system. There would be aboput 3000 potential orderers putting through a total of appoximately 1000 orders between them, each order covering about 30 product lines.
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>My questions
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>1 Can I house the webserver on my own premises and what are the implications
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>2 Can the server run VFP and how will the internet app communicate with it
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>3 Could the internet app be written in VFP
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>4 What other things should I take into consideration
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>Thanks
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>Colin Northway