An Answer From The Engine Room Of The Industry

An answer is proposed to a question raised in ”the history of complex event
processing part-2″

by Tom Bishop and David Luckham

I have often asked why the network monitoring applications that were developed in the late 1980’s and early 1990’s didn’t get extended to apply to business level events at about the same time. This would have put BAM on the map a few years ahead of when it actually happened. And it would have had a lot of other effects. On the positive side, we would have had tools with much more comprehensive drill down capabilities to uncover the reasons for expected events that didn’t happen and unexpected events that did happen. But, on the negative side, since most of the network management tools were being produced by major companies, it would have substantially reduced the opportunities for small startups to get a foothold in this market.

Now at long last a correspondent, Dr. Tom Bishop, a CTO in the BAM area, has sent  an-answer