If we're going all-out on vendors, add TIBCO. They have a lot of CEP taking in instrument data, and they have Spotfire as well. Tableau, meanwhile, released a free SaaS data visualization offering today. If you want to involve them, reach out to Elissa Fink. CAM On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 12:34 PM, Curt Monash <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > > On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 12:22 PM, Josh Berkus <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > >> Jacek, >> >> I'd like to make sure that the appropriate people from the open source >> and startup domains are being invited to this. Particularly: >> >> Open Source: >> >> LucidDB >> MonetDB >> > > Had 'em last year. (Martin Kersten) > > >> Hadoop >> >> > Ditto (Jeff Hammerbacher) > > >> Startup: >> >> Greenplum (I no longer work there) >> > > Ditto (Luke Lonergan) > > >> Aster Data >> > > I agree. And Jacek is obviously in touch with them. > > >> Truviso >> > > Why? They're spinning their wheels. I'd ask a big-company CEP player ahead > of them. E.g., IBM Streams is actually used in science in a place or two. > http://www.dbms2.com/2009/05/13/ibm-system-s-infosphere-streams-processing/ > > >> Paraccel >> > > I'd put Vertica way ahead of them, and not just because they're a bigger > company run by more truthful people supporting bigger databases. It's also > because I think they have more business on the telemetry/instrumentation > side (e.g., intelligence community). > > Come to think of it, that's a reason to put StreamBase into the CEP hopper. > And so we're up to at least three Mike Stonebraker companies ... > > InfoBright >> > > If just for the open source angle, I'd agree. (Bob Zurek is the obvious > person to contact.) And ditto VectorWise/Ingres, which is NOT the same thing > as MonetDB. > > CAM > > >> >> I also may want to swap myself as the PostgreSQL person at XLDB, since >> lately I've been working almost entirely on scalable web apps instead of >> large databases. I'll recommend an appropriate person. >> >> --Josh Berkus >> > >