StreamBase&#8217;s Stonebraker touts streaming apps
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InfoWorld - Mike Stonebraker has had a well-traveled career in IT, specifically in the area of data management. He was the main architect of the Ingres relational database, the Postgres object-relational database, and the Mariposa federated data system. He was founder and CTO of the Ingres, Illustra, and Cohera corporations as well as CTO at Informix and Required Technology. His latest project is StreamBase Systems, where he is founder and CTO. StreamBase is attempting to ride what it believes will be a great wave of need for high-speed streams-based data applications. Stonebraker recently met with InfoWorld Editor at Large Paul Krill in Pacific Grove, Calif., to discuss StreamBase and recent goings-on with Stonebraker's previous projects. Stonebraker also provided his views on the open source phenomenon and Oracle's acquisition of PeopleSoft.
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Punts 802.11a kit at gamers, multi-room music streamers
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Video codec company DivX is seeking individuals to help beta test some "secret stuff" the company is concocting in its labs. Although it's not saying what software (or hardware) products it plans to test, DivX has built a streaming media set-top box code-named GejBox, after DivX's creator.
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The company behind most CDMA technology is now planning to go multicast in order to allow faster and more stable streaming content.
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New Web services technologies announced Monday will help developers build money-making applications and use existing mainframe technology to create and deploy new Web services.
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Sybase is adding to its mobile portfolio, grabbing messaging service provider Mobile 365 for about $425 million in cash.ADVERTISEMENTMAKE SOA REAL WITH IBM WEBSPHERE PODCASTStreamline processes and maximize efficiency within a proven service oriented architecture. Take back control of your business processes with IBM WebSphere.
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Netflix and LG Electronics are working on a set-top box that will let customers watch movies streamed from the Web to their TV.
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A leaked video contains details on Google's plans to integrate a number of its offerings (think Picasa, GTalk, Calendar, Reader and more) into what the movie refers to as "activity streams."
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(InfoWorld) - Yahoo Inc. has launched a service called Pipes designed to let regular users mix different RSS and Atom feeds and create data "mashups," a process that so far has required programming knowledge. Pipes features a drag-and-drop interface that the company hopes non-technical users will find simple and intuitive as they manipulate content syndication feeds to combine data in new and useful ways. An example of a Pipe is this one , which meshes listings from Craigslist with data from Yahoo's local search engine to display apartments for rent near any business, Yahoo said. Another one collates news about topics chosen by the user from a variety of sources. "Pipes' initial set of modules lets you assemble personalized information sources out of existing Web services and data feeds. Pipes outputs standard RSS 2.0, so you can subscribe to and read your pipes in your favorite aggregator. You can also create pipes that accept user input and run them on our servers as a kind of miniature Web application," reads Yahoo's description of the service , posted Wednesday night. While Pipes today lets users mix data from RSS and Atom feeds, Yahoo hopes to extend the service to support other data formats, Web services, processing modules and output renderings, Yahoo said. For example, Yahoo will open up access to the Pipes engine to programmers and add support for the KML data source, which is used to display geographic data in Google Inc.'s popular Google Earth mapping application and Google Maps Web site. The initial response from observers has been enthusiastic. "Yahoo's new Pipes service is a milestone in the history of the Internet," Tim O'Reilly, founder and CEO of computer book publisher O'Reilly Media Inc., wrote on his blog . "While it's still a bit rough around the edges, it has enormous promise in turning the Web into a programmable environment for everyone." The Pipes Web site, available throughout this morning, was nonetheless down at press time, displaying the message: "Our Pipes are clogged! We've called the plumbers!"
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Network Appliance has brought out the latest version of its Data Ontap software, which imposes a grid storage architecture on NetApp devices by creating an abstraction layer between application servers, storage controllers and disc arrays.
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If you dream of being able to watch CSI: Miami or Survivor on your cell phone while you dash out to the store for some snacks, take heart: LiveStation, a Web TV service created by Microsoft and a software company called Skinkers, might soon make it possible.
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JavaPolis 2006 -- GigaSpaces(TM) and Lightstreamer today announced they have completed a joint development effort that streamlines the integration of the two organizations' complimentary products.
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Ardence Inc. has updated its software-streaming platform to version 4.0, saying the update should make it easier and faster for IT administrators to roll out software to targeted PCs.
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InfoWorld - PeakStream, a startup company featuring former executives from Sun Microsystems and VMware, on Monday is set to launch its high-performance application platform that leverages multicore processors.
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(InfoWorld) - Extending its developer outreach, complex event processing software maker StreamBase is making a development environment available as a free plug-in to the Eclipse platform. StreamBase on Monday is unveiling this capability with the StreamBase Developer Edition. The package features the StreamBase Studio developer tool and a non-production version of the StreamBase stream processing engine. Developers can plug the tool into the Eclipse IDE. Developer Edition is available free over the Web. StreamBase Studio previously was based on Eclipse. "What we're finding is you want a Web distribution of your software. [We] want to make it very easy for developers to try out the system," said Michael Stonebraker, founder and CTO of StreamBase. Developers can use the tool to build applications, but once an application is deployed into production, users must purchase a StreamBase license, which starts in price at $95,000. StreamBase's engine is being used in applications ranging from click stream monitoring in e-business systems to financial services and military surveillance. StreamBase with its application development strategy leverages the open source Eclipse plug-in framework. The company's unveiling features and plug-ins to Eclipse that make it easy for developers to connect new data feeds or custom adapters to the StreamBase engine. Input and output plug-ins enable, respectively, the stream processing system to access events and send processed data to enterprise systems. Wizards and templates in the Developer Edition assist with connecting to XML message systems, financial market data feeds, and other data providers. Developers can leverage Eclipse capabilities including testing and debugging, version control, and customer development. Enhancements being unveiled this week will be available online here on Friday as will a re-launched StreamBase Developer Zone, an online resource for developers. It features blogs, sample code, product documentation, and FAQs.
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Grist to the Viacom-YouTube mill? A permanent injunction has been imposed on the distributor of the Morpheus file-sharing software. A US court ruled yesterday that StreamCast Inc. must use "the most effective means available to reduce the infringing capabilities of the system."â¦
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WARSAW, Poland, Sept. 13  /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Stream Communications Network & Media Inc.