Oracle minus Esper equals opportunity for TIBCO!

Apparently I misinterpreted the Oracle announcement, per the comment from Alex below, Oracle may use Esper going forward. Also, as he says, Esper is gaining well deserved traction in areas outside of their OEM relationship. I still think that, given the effort put into making Esper embeddable, it would make a great combination with a Java based rules engine.

Oracle announced that the BEA CEP offering will not be a “strategic” product going forward. Meaning that they will discontinue it as quickly as possible. The alternative will be the Oracle CEP offering, mentioned recently by Paul at TIBCO.

The BEA offering was using Esper and this presumably leaves Esper a free agent (?)

I say that it should be integrated with BusinessEvents. The ontology in BE can dive the structure of the streams in Esper. Huh? That’s right, I said it! In BE, you first have to declare your ontology of objects that can be asserted and detected using rules. So add Esper and you also get to declare streams of those same objects. You get moving window calculations that, AFAIK, are better than what’s available in BE. You get the pattern language. And you get the ability to code some stuff in Esper (using  joins and windows) in a more performant way than could be done in BE. Then you get to integrate the results of that back into the rules, so that you don’t have to do awful SQL constructs to imitate something that rules do naturally!

Let the convergence begin!