Lots of hedge funds used MS stacks even before F# - I'm guessing the biggest reason is staff skill set both of the early developers and the other tech people. M

Lots of hedge funds used MS stacks even before F# - I'm guessing the biggest reason is staff skill set both of the early developers and the other tech people. Most hedge funds will only have a single IT guy to maintain app servers (exchange, etc.) so it makes sense for the trading servers to be Windows as well to avoid having to hire a Unix sysadmin.