title: Bloomberg Open API
body: <p>Bloomberg Open API <a href="http://www.computerworlduk.com/news/it-business/3334375/bloomberg-market-data-api-made-public/">announced recently</a> - is it just the <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/professional/software_support/">Bloomberg SDK</a> which had been (limitedly) exposed to public for quite a while?</p>
  
  <p><em>My understanding</em> is that Bloomberg SDK is possible to use only on the machine with a Bloomberg Terminal installed, but the recently announced Open API (which is syntactically the same) will be possible to use from any machine.</p>
  
  <p>Is that correct? Are there any restrictions on the new API (say, delayed responses etc)? Just cannot believe they're giving away for free something that costed money - any clarifications are welcome!</p>
  
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  <p><strong>EDIT</strong>: The above was probably not clear, so to rephrase: </p>
  
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  <li>I wonder if the newly announced Open API is syntactically the <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/professional/software_support/">Bloomberg SDK API</a> (or how they call it?) which has been available for years already</li>
  <li>assuming there are restrictions on using Open API on <em>any machine</em> (comparing to using SDK from a machine with Bloomberg Terminal installed) - I wonder if those restrictions are specified in detail in some official Bloomberg doc. </li>
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  <p>I can myself guess on both questions, but I thought I'd rather ask :) </p>