Progress Software’s strategy of creating a multi-tenant PaaS infrastructure to capitalize on big data is sound. Trying to do it with Mainframe, CEP, and database drivers is the confusing part.
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Thanks very much for the pointer David! Much more succinct than I managed
You’re welcome.
That said, of course, there’s more to it — there’s the Corticon Rules Engine.
The two things people probably don’t realize:
1. Apama is still a very immature technology, if not from a CEP perspective from an operational perspective. It’s hard to configure and maintain and troubleshoot, which makes its cost of ownership high. They win some deals, but I wonder how many actually make it into production in the way the technology was sold. (I don’t have insight into that)
2. In our industry, all software companies face challenges integrating products together. Especially when they come from different acquisitions (which invariably they do). The quality of the integration is a product of how the cultures are brought together, and the motivations the teams have to doing so. When a company like Progress talks about how they’re going to put pieces together to do something, I’m skeptical. The larger the vision, the bigger the cultural challenges to be faced on the integration.
For the teams who get divested, I hope they land somewhere good and wish them well. It was a privilege to work with them.