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Feb 04 2010

Another vendor buys their way into CEP…
Posted by Paul Vincent

Interesting to see the rumors were true and Sybase has acquired the “assets of” specialist vendor Aleri. This was a bit bizarre, given that not a year ago Sybase announced they had acquired a source code license for Coral8, shortly before Coral8 merged into Aleri. Now the Sybase folks appear to have paid twice for the same privilege, having no doubt found that “acquiring a technology” does not gain you the brains needed to sell, deploy and develop it.  This acquisition has 2 minor consequences:

  • the CEP Vendor family tree for 2010 is out of date already!
  • the remaining CEP vendors focusing mainly on financial markets and algo-trading will no doubt have to deal with a competitor willing to give query-based stream-processing software away as a part of  database deals; they will need to be redoubling their efforts to try and break into other markets.

Meanwhile, good luck to the Aleri and Coral8 folks joining Sybase! (Or moving elsewhere, of course…)

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  • By Paul Haley, February 4, 2010 @ 11:46

    I’d be interested in your thoughts on market dynamics here. This could simply be capitulation versus a critical ingredient of a strategic move by Sybase. The text from Sybase harkens to your recent post on analytics in CEP. The CEO’s comment doesn’t seem to fit with the company but look forward to the strategy. (Were you reading ahead to look prophetic, Paul?-)

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  • By Paul Vincent, February 4, 2010 @ 15:52

    Hi Paul - I guess we’ll find out in time… but the fact that the Sybase quote was by their CMO(!) implies a market positioning rather than any strategic intent. A DB vendor must find the idea of in-memory (or out-of-DB) event processing an uncomfortable proposition to some extent…
    Cheers

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  • By Paul Vincent, February 5, 2010 @ 16:33

    More insightful comments on http://magmasystems.blogspot.com/2010/02/sybase-aleri-announcement-is-out.html from the Aleri team, and pro/antagonist from their main financial services stream processing competitor Streambase…

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