Paul Vincent’s blog post CEP: hype, or the next best thing since sliced bread? mispresents the dialog going on the the CEP community.

First of all, we have not read anyone saying that CEP is “mere hype” as Paul Vincent has distorted the discussion.  What people have have said is that CEP is overhyped. There is a huge difference in “Mere Hype” (Paul Vincent’s misinformation) and “Overhyped”.  

In addition, Paul goes a step further and calls the entire discussion, one he did not participate in, ”over-discussed (but ultimately uninteresting)” as a sideline observer who has offered nothing to the dialog.  TIBCO’s customers have not released a CEP announcement in a very long time and they are not contributing to the critical technical discussions.

Instead of sniping at community discussions on the blogosphere,  as a lead-in for a blog post, why not offer the details of a TIBCO customer use case?  Also, instead of misquoting the community discussions, why not be accurate, not misleading and condescending?     How about getting into the details of TIBCO Event Processing Language?  Maybe discussing the plans, if any, for the integration of Insightful and Spotfire with BusinessEvents?  

I greatly admire TIBCO and their technology, but Paul’s post CEP: hype, or the next best thing since sliced bread? is both misleading and inaccurate. We expect more out of the TIBCO bloggers, for example, a strong public customer reference detailing a CEP use case.   Something we have not seen on the TIBCO blog.

PS:  A quick Google search reveals that the only person on the net calling CEP “Mere Hype” is Paul Vincent.