Drools Fusion: OSS competitor to BusinessEvents

Until now, TIBCO BusinessEvents has been the only rules based product focussed on event processing. A rules based product makes quite a lot of sense in this area: most people find rules to be a familiar and easy to understand way to code some common kinds of event logic (“when such-and-so happens, and so-and-so condition already exists, then do XYZ”). Enter Drools Fusion from the JBoss project. While the initial release will clearly not be up ot the feature set of BE, it’s got promise. Combined with Esper, this would make a very interesting event processing platform.

I see this kind of thing as helpful to TIBCO and other CEP vendors. It provides a free demo of event processing capabilities to the masses. Then the vendors can step in with capabilities that the free software currently can’t match and pick up some sales.

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