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> 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/ I'd like to invite all of the streaming DB companies, actually. And even if Truviso isn't doing much commecially, that doesn't mean that Sailesh has lost all of his experience. > 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 ... I didn't mention any of the Stonebraker companies because I know they're already on this list. > InfoBright > If just for the open source angle, I'd agree. (Bob Zurek is the obvious > person to contact.) Actually, Bob is not an engineer, he's a marketing guy. So we need to make sure he sends an actual engineer. > And ditto VectorWise/Ingres, which is NOT the same > thing as MonetDB. Same; Ingres has a real tendency to send marketing people to engineering summits unless you screen the delegate. --Josh Berkus