Recently I decided to change from my tried-and-tested 3-blade razor to a new-fangled razor with n>3 blades. Initially I resisted the change, as (1) the original 3-bladed solution seemed to work fine and (2) I hate the thought of being led, or duped, into change. However, the availability of the 3-bladed cartridges seemed to be in decline, indicating a “market trend”, so I resigned myself to the hype only to be surprised to find the 5 (or is it 6?) bladed version indeed to be very nice to use. The trusty 3-blader was assigned to the travel washbag.
A funny thing happened when I next travelled: the 3-blader felt totally unsatisfactory. Either the use of the n>3 blades had somehow and deviously changed my skin, or I had automatically accepted the advantages of the 5-blader making it a new minimum benchmark for the task in hand.
The same seems to be true of the CEP market. How many projects or companies adopting event-based approaches are reverting back to conventional data-driven or app-server approaches? At TIBCO I had known of only 1 early TIBCO BusinessEvents adopter who had reportedly stopped using the technology (and even then, when I met this company last week, I found that the report was wrong – they were still using BE). So who has reverted “back”, and why? Like the n+1 bladed razor, CEP is more than hype it seems…
