I think so, but then I'm biased ;)

C++ for power and efficiency, Python for time-to-market. Have you tried typing 'hedge fund python' into JobServe ?

Thanks for the tip :) Possible C++/Grid opportunity appearing soon.

Trying c++ investment bank yields ~800 jobs in the past 7 days:

http://www.jobserve.com/searchresults.aspx?jobType=*&d=7&page=1&q=c%2B%2B+and+investment+and+bank&x=31&y=14&order=Rank&all=on&cbAllCountries=on&cb01=1&cb02=2&cb03=4&cb04=8&cb06=16&cb07=32&cb08=64&cb09=128&cb10=256&cb11=512&cb12=1024&cb13=2048&cb14=4096&cb15=8192&cb16=16384&dt=1&ps=20&cid=0

There's definitely been a sharp rise in demand for C++: in the past 4-6 months:

http://www.jobstats.co.uk/jobstats.d/Details.d/Trends.d/SKILL/C++.d/index.html

I believe that any DataLayer must be a simple code block, that they allow operations against DB.

That code block would not have to know on the Business Entities. Single to specialize it is to execute the operations (Store Procedures and SQL Sentences) against the engine DB (SQL, Oracle, DB2, etc.), with which this setting.

Finally, I invite to you to download the DataLayer.Primitives Public Version.

This is very cool Data Layer :)

DataLayer.Primitives - Readme!
http://forums.microsoft.com/msdn/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=1389

Cheers,

Javier Luna
http://guydotnetxmlwebservices.blogspot.com/

Here's why I think C++ will come back into vogue:

http://www.techweb.com/wire/software/163700651

The widespread use of clusters, grids, and multi-core, multi-processor desktop machine will foster demands for number crunching, and C++/C/Fortran 95 are a better match for that app domain that are Java/VB/Python etc. Those other languages will still be used for what they're used for now, but new codes will be written for numerically intensive jobs, and they will be in C++.