Tim Bass
Fri, 27 Jun 2008 15:49:56 +0000
Fellow blogger Opher Etzion, replies to**On Elephants and*Analyticswith On Unicorn,*Professor and Infant.* Opher is kindly givingus another metaphor to consider, the Infant and the Profession, since we are both big fans of big gentle elephants, babies and our universities.**
Opher and Iagree that Infants are not Professors, and we also agree that CEP is in its Infancy and there is overhype by folks often*implyingCEP is a Professor.*****So it seems we all have a huge elephant in the room with an Infant*Professorhanging on the end of a wildly swinging Elephant�s trunk!
To*keepthe blogopointsinteresting, Ishould point out that with all thisagreement and Cum By Ya campfire singing, there*area couple of thingsI do disagree with in Opher�s amusing counterpoint.*
First of all, Opher uses the well knowdebate technique of falsely attributing some easily refutable discussion point and then offering a slam dunk counterpoint.** He does this in this clever, but completely inaccurate Opher quote,
�I [Opher] respectfully disagree with Tim � in his claim that what has been done until today is just hype and hence totally worthless��
Folks reading my blogknow that I have never said �what has been done until today is � totally worthless.�** This is a misfortunate misquote.* Shame on you Opher!**
What I said, easily read in the blog,was that CEP is overhyped and that most of the self-described CEP software on the market today does not live up to the inflated claims we read and hear from CEP software vendors, the analysts and reporters they influence.
The second*counterpointthat Ifind interestingis Opher�s consistent attempt toredress the dramatic lack of capability and analyticsin current generation self-described CEP software by repositioning CEP as �intelligent event processing� (IEP) as heis continuesin On Intelligent Event Processing.***
Perhaps Opher will be successful inrepositioning the vast majority of the original CEP problem space as IEP.** This is a interesting slippery slope, in my opinion.** The new positioning that Opher is offering is thatwhen �event processing�has advanced analytics, it is not CEPanymore, itbecomes IEP because CEP is really �Simple Event Processing� (SEP) - event processing with little to no analytical capability.
I don�t know about most of our readers, but all this positioning and repositioning to match the capabilities, or lack of capabilities, in the current portfolio of self-described CEP software vendors is fascinating.
Here is the next logical question is:
What is the difference between a �Complex Event� and an �Intelligent Event� ?
Thiscould get*quite interesting, so stay tuned!
