I just discovered that TIBCO ActiveSpaces, a distributed / grid-based “tuple space”, is now, sort of, public knowledge:
- Jean-Noel Moyne introduced ActiveSpaces on the TIBCOmmunity blog
- Vivek Ranadive mentioned it in his TIBCO earnings call a week ago
- Dana Garner tweeted about it
OK, it was pretty much an “open secret” having being mentioned by Infoworld in their TUCON article from… 2008!
One to keep any eye on.
Is this in competetion to Oracle Tangosol and Gigaspaces? Will this be packaged as a spearate product? is this Java based or C++ with Java API?
Hi Maksim – answers are almost certainly / yes / the latter…
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I wasn’t aware of ActiveMatrix, so that makes sense. The activespace project started by james strachan does look like it’s inactive. Funny that activemq used “active” as a prefix for activespace and Tibco did a similar thing taking Active from ActiveMatrix. It’s nice to see Tibco push forward with a javaspace approach. I proposed something similar to this several years back. Nice to see things progress.
thanks for the clarification. it is odd coincidence Tibco ended up choosing the same name as the project james strachan started a few years back. I wonder if it will cause any confusion.
Hi Peter – I doubt it. The project you linked to shows updates last made in 2006 implying the project is dead. Meanwhile TIBCO launched its ActiveMatrix virtual SOA product area in 06-07, so a tuple space product called ActiveSpaces makes perfect sense. After all, its not like TIBCO is creating a competitor to an active commercial product like BusinessEvents by calling it Business[space]Events… oh wait…
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The activemq guys start a project called activespace several years back http://xircles.codehaus.org/projects/activespace/members. Is this an off shoot of it? or something completely new?
Hi Peter – TIBCO ActiveSpaces is something different AFAIK. It builds on TIBCO middleware technology. But interesting to see the an “ActiveSpace” project from 2006 though!
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