IBM Trumps TIBCO on Cloud Computing Services
I have been blogging about the importance of the Amazon EC2 services model for quite some time, including these posts
- Computing in the Clouds with AWS
- CEP as a Service (CEPaaS) with MapReduce on Amazon EC2 and Amazon S3
- SOA in Cardiac Arrest, Long Live Services, SOA in Cardiac Arrest, Long Live Services
- Analytics as a Service (A3S)
In some of my musings I have hinted that TIBCO needs to be providing their core software (including their EPP, BusinessEvents) in Amazon Machine Images (AMI) for many of their software capabilities. As a long time friend of TIBCO, I have even sent their EVPs and VPs private messages on this topic. So, it comes as no surprise to read IBM Software Available on EC2 With Pay-As-You-Go Licensing Model. IBM says,
IBM and Amazon Web Services (AWS) have teamed up to help developers easily scale their applications using IBM DB2 Express, Informix Dynamic Server, WebSphere Portal, Lotus Web Content Management, and WebSphere sMash software in the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud.
From the IBM press release:
Effective immediately, IBM is making available new Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) at no charge for development and test purposes, enabling software developers to quickly build pre-production applications based on IBM software within Amazon EC2. The new portfolio will over time extend to include Service Management capabilities from IBM Tivoli software for Amazon EC2 to help clients better control and automate their dynamic infrastructures in the cloud.
When I was a big shot consultant working for the US DOD, TIBCO listened to me carefully. Then, when I went to work for TIBCO, they listened and treated me well. However, since leaving TIBCO, they seem to refuse to listen, even though I have their best interest at heart!
Helloooooooo ?
See also:IBM Cloud Spaces
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Amazon AWS and the young competing services are very important. Computing as a utility is a major leap forward and not something TIBCO is ignoring.
However, simply making AMIs available isn’t a big deal. That’s just the Amazon-specific equivalent of making VMWare images available for customers to use — which some vendors are calling virtual appliances.
Rather than build the bare minimum and issue a press release to get our name out there quickly, TIBCO is doing what we always do. We’re working with customers to figure out what they really need, taking the time to do our homework, and working on a cloud-based offering that will be compelling right out of the gate. You’ll hear more from TIBCO on this in the May/June timeframe, and it will be more than just machine images.
Hi Rourke!
Great to hear from you and thanks for stopping by. I disagree with your characterization, “simply making AMIs available isn’t a big deal.” Lot’s of companies and software (like LAMP, Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP) are now available as AMIs. AMIs are great.
Your follow-on statement is also “over the top” when you say, “Rather than build the bare minimum and issue a press release to get our name out there quickly, TIBCO is doing what we always do.”
Your statement reads like an indirect slam against many well intended companies who make their software available via an AMI. TIBCO could have made their software available in AMIs and then add more value later.
Hence, I disagree with your implications that TIBCO is not really behind the curve and everyone else is simply less intelligent than TIBCO. There are already very good “cloud-based offerings” that are out-of-the-gate. We like working with AMIs.
IBM making their AMIs available in Amazon EC2 is innovative and should not be “put down” by other software companies. TIBCO is behind the curve. Promising somthing in “May/June” is great. Let’s see what is “so great??”
I hope TIBCO makes the AMIs open and free to developers and decreases the barrier to entry and development.
And, OBTW, I hope TIBCO does not overhype the phrase “SOA” in May/June when they announce their vision of “cloud computing”
I am willing to bet you will not release TIBCO software in an AMI for developers to use…. but I hope I am proved wrong.
Yours sincerely, Tim