OpenGamma Moving House

14 July 2011 By Kirk Wylie

Since we got started almost exactly two years ago, we've had some significant milestones:

• We raised two rounds of funding, from Accel Partners and FirstMark Capital.
• We released 0.7.0, 0.7.1, and 0.8.0 of the OpenGamma Platform (and our first public release was almost certainly the largest new Open Source code drop in the previous year).
• We moved into our first real offices.
• We expanded the team dramatically, and are now up to 20 full time employees (and of course, we're hiring).

The last point is the most pressing on us, as we've now outgrown our warehouse space on Southwark Street in London. While we were hoping to stay here for two years, we've just grown too quickly for that.

Tomorrow the whole team will be packing up and moving about 200 metres away to our new Headquarters, at 185 Park Street, right next to the Tate Modern and still here in the Bankside area of London. The new offices are double the size of our current space, and should handle our growth as we continue to develop the Platform and work with customers to make sure they're making effective use of it.

However, there are a few public services that we host that will be down while we move servers from Southwark Street to Park Street:

• The FudgeMsg server infrastructure will be completely down while we move (that means www.fudgemsg.org and jira.fudgemsg.org).
• The OpenGamma Jira instance will be down.
• OpenGamma documentation will be down.
• Our Crowd instance will also be down while we move.

Because our Crowd instance handles developers.opengamma.com logins, those will not be functioning during the transition. However, downloads will still be available, and forums will stay up as well.

We hope the downtime to be as minimal as possible, but it may be all weekend if things go wrong. We'll announce on forums and via Twitter when everything is back up.

Of course we'll have a housewarming open house, so expect an announcement of that in the next week!