Up to Speed
Now it’s time to start working again after a nice summer break. I’m trying to catch up on my google alerts and see if there’s something interesting.
First thing that I found is that Oracle now has support for registering queries in 11g. If I got it right you can now dump in a query into the db and get a notification when the result set of the query changes. This is really really cool. It might be one of the most interesting things related to CEP this year. Now you can basically build your SQL based CEP stuff in Oracle’s db.
On the business front I notice that Senactive have been acquired by a company called UC4. So one less CEP player left then. It also seems that Vhayu have bee acquired, -2 CEP players then…
There seems also be a new report from Forrester which many CEP companies quote favorable parts from. It’s always a good sign then these research firms thinks there’s money to be made on writing about CEP.
Paul Vincent from Tibco have drawn a nice CEP history timeline which gives a good overview of the CEP world as of today and some perspective as to where the products come from. Although we started a bit earlier (in 2003 if I remember correctly) than the illustration suggests. Actually first design drafts to ruleCore are from 2001. It’s nice to look through them and see that some ideas have actually survived to today’s product.
From Opher’s blog I notice that CEP is climbing on the hype hype cycle as seen by Gartner. If I get the graphics right CEP is some 5 years from mainstream according to Gartner. CEP vendors does not seem to agree if you read comments on various blogs. No surprise there. But it is about the same lines as we think over here, we have for long predicted 2012 as the year when CEP starts to take off. Until then, it’s wise not to burn too much fuel if you like to stay in business. Meanwhile, it seems that at least some argue that CEP vendors need to treat developers better.
My summer quiz seems to have attracted zero (0) interest 
So I don’t even bother posting the answer.
I read a lot about Twitter in the CEP blogs now. Is it just me, but I really can’t understand the greatness of this Twitter thing… My guess is that in two years it’s forgotten and placed somewhere among the rest of the hyped up websites that pop up now and then. Before that the founders will rip some VC off and move to some warm cosy place. And for CEP, not interesting at all from where I stand. It’s more a parsing and text analytic problem as I see it.
Anyway, nice to be back at work and it’s good to see that the CEP community is moving forward and I hope that all of you that work with CEP will have a really nice fall doing all kinds of cool CEP stuff…
Here’s some Swedish pine for you:
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