September 2008 Archives

This morning at the SOA Consortium meeting in Orlando, Richard Soley announced the winners of the CIO Magazine | SOA Consortium case study contest.  The goal was to highlight business success stories and lessons learned to provide proof points and... Read More..

Before I fully immerse myself in the SOA Consortium this week, I wanted to augment my "reporting" on last week's EPTS symposium with a little analysis. My EPTS Take-Aways True Industry Collaboration - As Opher mentioned, 41 of the 70... Read More..

Panel: Event Processing Standards? - What? When? Why? How they are related to other standards? Moderator: Roy Schulte, Gartner Panelists: Adrian Paschke (RuleML) Bob Marcus (SRI) Chris Ferris (IBM) Louis Lovas (Progress/Apama) Paul Vincent (TIBCO) Roy opens sharing Gartner taxonomy... Read More..

Standards keynote: The role and influence of standards Chris Ferris,IBM Distinguished Engineer, CTO Industry Software Standards, IBM Software Group Objective to discuss standards in general, as informational to EP society as it considers standards.  As for EPTS' role in standards:... Read More..

Jerry Baulier, CTO of Aleri Current cutting edge work: - Evolving authoring paradigms & languages / computational model convergence of relational data flow & rule based paradigms multiple authoring languages - SQL, Visual directed graphs, lower level textual enhancements to... Read More..

As I mentioned yesterday, today's focus of the EPTS meeting is technology.  The morning keynote is Susan Urban,Texas Tech. University, Reactive Behavior and Data Management Research Lab.  Susan's background is in active database systems background, and is current doing research... Read More..

I'm at the 4th Event Processing Technical Symposium in Stamford CT.  The meeting is run by the Event Processing Technical Society and co-located with Gartner's Event Processing Summit.  There are about 60 of us here, mostly from vendors (IBM, Oracle,... Read More..

This morning, the WSJ follows-up on the GIGO-based UAL stock drop. This piece, ironically dated tomorrow (see image), describes the Tribune's side of the story, that a single click on the 2002 story was the butterfly, if you will, that... Read More..

Interesting piece in the WSJ today about "the computer glitch that cratered UAL's stock yesterday".  Apparently, this was a case of GIGO processing at hyper speed: "...blame spread to the computers that robotically troll the Web for news stories and... Read More..

The final podcast from the SOA Consortium's SOA and event processing day is a hot topics roundtable discussion featuring Ian Foster of Cisco, Bruce Henderson of Savant, Ed Lynch of IBM, and Greg Peres of Sun Microsystems.  As moderator, I... Read More..

As I mentioned yesterday, this week the SOA Consortium is releasing podcasts from the SOA & Event Processing day at the June SOA-C meeting.  The podcast released today is from Savant's Bruce Henderson.  I really enjoyed this talk, and admittedly,... Read More..

If all goes as planned, my posts will be all event processing this week and next.  Next week, I'll be attending the 4th Event Processing Technical Symposium, hosted by EPTS, and co-located with Gartner's Event Processing Summit.  For more info,... Read More..