It seems that publishing the CEP Market survey is a “preceding event” for some change in the market – no sooner do we update the 2010 market view then another vendor adjustment takes place. Last month mid-tier RDBMS vendor Sybase got acquired by ERP vendor SAP (completing a chain of new corporate identities for Coral8 employees who became Aleri in Mar09, Sybase in Feb10, and now SAP in May10)…
We also made a few other updates, such as adding in the IBM R&D Amit product – the one that IBM management decided to bypass when it acquired Aptsoft to be its “version of Business Events” in 2008. I hadn’t realised that Amit was embedded in a few other IBM product offerings… so is worthy of inclusion in the chart. I adjusted a few other start times based on evidence of “first customer project” too – but clearly that data is still more subjective than it could be.
So – what will change next?
