Category: Oracle
Towards a Streaming SQL Standard
In More Towards a Streaming SQL Standard, Marc Adler says, “Despite what I think about Streambase’s marketing and sales organization, you must admit that Zdonik and Cherniack are first-class researchers, and have contributed a lot to the field of CEP.” I agree that these gentlemen are top notch researchers, witnessed by the fact that the authors [...]
Read moreMuddy Waters
In Waters Rankings 2008, Waters stirs the mud and confusion in the CEP/EP community by having their constituents vote on both an ESP solution and an CEP solution set, but giving both awards to vendors with stream processing (ESP) engines. The two CEP/ESP related Waters’ categories were, Best Streaming Data Management Solution and Best Complex Event [...]
Read moreIBM Will Acquire AptSoft
I was wondering when IBM would actually jump into the event processing market. Well, it was announced today that IBM will acquire Aptsoft, adding an event processing platform to the IBM WebSphere porfolio. IBM will also gain AptSoft’s event processing reference customers. This was a smart move by IBM. Oracle is acquiring BEA which uses Esper under the hood, another [...]
Read moreBAM Solutions for CEP Engine Users
Today I noticed that SL Corporation has revamped their website with a new page, Solutions for CEP Engine Users. The page is well written, reinforcing some of my earlier posts on the value proposition for CEP; so I hope the folks at SL don’t mind if I repost their excellent thoughts on BAM and CEP here. Solutions for CEP Engine [...]
Read moreWant Great Technology? Buy TIBCO (TIBX)
We all know that Oracle just bought BEA. Personally, I would have recommended Oracle to buy TIBCO instead of BEA. TIBCO has great technology and their software stack is richer and more diverse that BEA’s. TIBCO spends a lot of development resources on their graphical user interfaces and design-time and modelling environment to make business [...]
Read moreOracle to Buy BEA Systems for $8.5 Billion
After three months of wrangling over prices, Oracle Corp. will acquire BEA Systems in a $8.5 billion deal. This means that Oracle will now have an event processing platform, the Oracle WebLogic Event Server to compliment their product line. Reference: Oracle Strikes Deal to Buy BEA Systems for $8.5 Billion (Wall Street Journal) By JOHN FLOWERS [...]
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