Transforming TIBCO

TIBCO has announced the acquisition of Alpine Data. Last month it acquired Composite Software from Cisco and in the summer, it acquired Statistica. What's going on?

CEP and analytics

I always thought CEP was about analytics but most vendors didn't; now it turns out that there a few who agree with me

Events and other things

The advent of IBM's System S (which I shall discuss in more detail in a subsequent article) raises interesting questions about the nature of event and stream-based processing. The reason for this...

Aleri merges with Coral8

Aleri has merged with Coral8, although since it is arguable that there is no such thing as a merger—this being just a friendly name for a takeover—and as the new company will be trading...

IBM, BEP and CEP

IBM has just held its first annual analyst's conference on what it calls Business Event Processing (BEP). Now, followers of the complex event processing (CEP) market will know that IBM has renamed...