Tis the season for consolidation August 25, 2009
Posted by James Webster in : finance, development , trackbackTibco buys Datasynapse, which is pretty big news for the City since most derivatives houses probably have one or the other. Will this sort of consolidation at the big end of the market scare some architects off and make them focus on open-source players such as GridGain? Are there any grid deployments running GridGain for production intraday & overnight risk at a bank?
Open-source is no stranger to the consolidation trend either;
Terracotta acquires Ehcache: from a capital markets perspective, Oracle’s Coherence (which itself arised from acquiring Tangosol) seems to be the 500lb gorilla in the ‘in memory data grid’ space. The combination of Terracotta and a deeply integrated Ehcache might be an appropriate alternative solution for the primary use case of Coherence in bank deployments; a market data/trade/position/risk cache & time series database.
VMware acquires SpringSource which itself acquired Hyperic: VMware is gearing itself up to be a major cloud player by offering a complete virtualised Java development stack, after all isn’t the recently announced CloudFoundry Java’s answer to Microsoft and .Net’s Windows Azure? Is a database acquisition or purchase of Splunk that far away?
Co-operation rather than consolidation; the open source trading platform Marketcetera has established close relationships with Sky Road and NYSE Technologies’ to provide a hosted solution for Marketcetera. Given Marketcetera uses Spring extensively some involvement with CloudFoundry is a possibility as well.
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