Tim Bass
Wed, 26 Dec 2007 18:22:22 +0000

Marc Adler shows why his*musings are rapidly becoming one of my “must read”*blogs in his post, CEP Vendors and the Ecosystem.
We*have been making similar points in the*event processing*blogosphere, namely the important of adapters and analytics.** Today, event processing vendors are surprisingly weak in both areas.*
For one thing, there was way*much emphasis on rules-based analytics*in 2007.* Where are the rest of the plug-and-play commercial analytics end users need for event processing??
And another thing…..
Why are there so few choices of adapters and why do we have to write our own??
Sometimes I think that if I read another press release on 500,000 events per second I’m going to shout out - the event processing software on the market today cannot even connect to a simple UNIX domain socket out-of-the-box, so how about ZERO events per second!
The bottom line is that the market is still wide open for a software vendor to come to the party with a wide array of plug-and-play, grab-and-go, adapters and analytics.**
Folks are talking COTS, but more often it is NOTS.




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