“Product Downloads”, a criterion for comparing CEP products
Posted by Paul Vincent
Surprising to see a Forrester blog about their recent CEP Wave report on the importance of… “unrestricted developer downloads”. Is this topic really more interesting to their customers than CEP tool differentiators like… “multiple Event Processing Languages for multiple styles of CEP”, “support for event-driven managed-decision support”, “distributed event server platform features”, etc etc … or indeed any other functional aspect of “complex event processing”? And is this more of an issue for the CEP tool market than other software tools, one wonders?
Meanwhile, my evil twin ponders on whether “unrestricted developer downloads” might also be desirable for, say, analyst reports … 
Complex Event Processing (CEP) | 19 August 2009 |
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By Marco Seiriö, August 19, 2009 @ 22:37
I think most developers can agree that unrestricted downloads are a good idea. But that’s not a feature of the product itself. The product won’t be better or worse depending on how one can get access to it!
I read that they had a huge number of criteria when doing the evaluation. I wonder how many of those are specific to CEP (thus requiring expertise in CEP to set up) and how many are common things like “Scales well…”. And apparently our ruleCore is not part of the CEP world according to Forrester, bit it’s one of those cloudy services so maybe they required something to download in order to include it?
By Paul Vincent, August 21, 2009 @ 06:38
Hi Marco - Fully agree. You should ask them how they define CEP - they excluded quite a few folks, even those contributing to EPTS…
Cheers