Streambase Launches Complex-event-processing Exchange

by Chris Kanaracus, IDG News Service

CEP (complex-event processing) vendor Streambase on Tuesday launched a Web site where customers, developers and partners can download, share and perhaps one day sell components.

The new Streambase Component Exchange is stocked with an initial set of items, including an adapter for pulling in Twitter streams, an integration with the Python programming language, and domain-specific algorithms. The vendor hopes the exchange will help flesh out its ecosystem, which now includes roughly 100 customers and several hundred developers. Right now, the components are available at no charge, but that could change in the future, company officials said. …..

Streambase’s “open-edge” licensing model for the exchange states in part that components are not “supported, verified or endorsed by Streambase, even when created by a Streambase employee, partner or affiliate.” However, the code may be redistributed, modified and used in both source and binary forms as long as certain conditions are met. PC World report