Quick Thoughts on Sybase/Aleri

The folks at Sybase still haven't figured out when to prebrief me.

Sybase/Aleri is a potentially powerful combination, if they can effectively address the point I just made about integrating disparate latencies. That said, I'm not expecting a lot, because the CEP industry always disappoints me.

Microsoft, IBM, and (somewhat less clearly) Oracle are all trying to do CEP inhouse. Sybase is making a good choice in having serious CEP inhouse itself

Surely the main focus and financial justification for the Sybase/Aleri acquisition is the financial services market.

Specifically, I expect the focus of technical integration between Aleri and Sybase's DBMS products to start with Sybase IQ.

Coral8 had some interesting ideas about how to integrate CEP with OLTP/operational BI, but I'm not aware that they got much traction.

I bet there are use cases where Sybase tries and fails to sell SQL Anywhere that CEP would be a better technical fit, but I don't immediately see much practical business significance to that observation.

While this deal could easily strengthen the Vertica/StreamBase partnership, I don't see any reason why it would lead those two companies to actually merge.