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IBM Will Acquire AptSoft

2008-01-23 16:30:42 by Tim Bass in The Complex Event Processing Blog

I was wondering when IBM would actually jump into the event processing market.

Well, it was announced today that IBM will acquire Aptsoft, adding an event stream processing (ESP) platform to the IBM WebSphere porfolio. IBM will also gain AptSoft’s event processing reference customers. This was a smart move by IBM.

Oracle is acquiring BEA which uses Esper under the hood, another stream processing engine.

However, AptSoft has a more advanced user interface and graphical design-time environment when compared to the Oracle/BEA/Esper platform,; so the IBM/WebSphere/AptSoft offering will propel IBM to the top of the event stream processing market.

This also means the ESP market leaders will be Progress Apama and IBM. It is a sure bet that IBM will compete directly with Apama in the financial services sector with their acquisition of AptSoft.

Now, it’s TIBCO’s turn to acquire an ESP platform to compliment their process-driven event processing offering.