Archive: June, 2008
Algo Trading on Your BlackBerry?
In E*Trade (ETFC) seizes control of the BlackBerry, Douglas A. McIntyre asks “How long will it be before the Blackberry and other devices will have enough intelligence to trade stocks without their owner’s permission?” Check out E*Trade’s Mobile*Pro where customers can view all their accounts and watch lists; trades stocks and options; view streaming quotes, orders, [...]
Read moreEpilogue on CEP Maturity
In On the Maturity of Complex Event Processing, the author concludes: “I think [... the. ...] comment at the end of [... the. ...] post “we shouldn’t feel compelled to thwart that growth with a claim that the products are not ‘mature’ when they actually are in a lot of ways” is quite revealing. The fact that such a [...]
Read moreMore on CEP Maturity: Capability Versus Reliability
Louis Lovas of Progress Apama wrote a complimentary blog entry on the topic at hand, CEP Maturity Models. In his post, Louis says: “What a CEP platform has tracks independently of what it is capable of doing. ….. What CEP does, is likely what Tim is referring to when he states we’re in the Technology Trigger phase.” [...]
Read moreMore on CEP: Process, Service or Reference Architecture?
In reply to Paul Vincent’s post Is CEP a Service or a Process? I posted Is CEP a Service or a Process? Reloaded. This post is a follow-up to my dialog with Paul and the CEP community, as a whole. Some of the more remarkable critical comments on the book “The Power of Events” was that the [...]
Read moreOn CEP Maturity and the Gartner Hype Cycle
In reply to Mark Palmer’s rebuttal, What Does it Mean to be Mature?, the figure below illustrates the popular Gartner Hype Cycle. You can click on the illustration to get a clearer image. In context to the Gartner Hype Cycle, CEP is closer to the “Technology Trigger” phase than anywhere else in the hype cycle. CEP has not [...]
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