Tibco

[Svalbaard]

I see. Mr Tibco, or whatever his name was, had a problem, which was 'I am unable to dream up or produce a useful software product that people will buy'. So he dreamt up a 'solution', which was 'I will use a business bulltulip generator to make a posh sounding text for my website promising solutions to all the problems of businesses, and then I will sell 'consultancy' for many many pounds per hour, and sell this 'solution' to ignorant people whose job is to spend somebody else's money'.

Genius.

Are you sure you're not confusing Tibco with Ronco?

[darmstadt]

It's a bit of software that solves all your business problems. Oh, and costs a fortune in Consultancy charges to get it to work.

Don't you see??

Ah, synonym for SAP

[darmstadt]

IIRC when I was doing a POC at the CSA they had TIBCO and it was a SNAFU

[doodab]

TIBCO invented publish and subscribe messaging.

[Pondlife]

I see. Mr Tibco, or whatever his name was, had a problem, which was 'I am unable to dream up or produce a useful software product that people will buy'. So he dreamt up a 'solution', which was 'I will use a business bulltulip generator to make a posh sounding text for my website promising solutions to all the problems of businesses, and then I will sell 'consultancy' for many many pounds per hour, and sell this 'solution' to ignorant people whose job is to spend somebody else's money'.

Genius.

Do you tell prospective clients that you click run on test scripts for €75/hr.

[oracleslave]

Do you tell prospective clients that you click run on test scripts for €75/hr.

It's hidden in fine print in the deepest darkest corner of his company brochure.

[aussielong]

Tibco Rendezvous was their classic messaging product. It was a very good product. I worked with it a lot. Easily the best of the bunch.

Now they have Tibco Businessworks. This is used in a lot of banks for enterprise service bus stuff - implementing integration projects. This is a well paid contractor skill.

Tibco used to be in Bishopsgate somewhere. They were all PhD boffins. The main man is (was?) an Indian guy who invented pub/sub messaging about 15 years ago, as someone else said.

[Pogle]

Ah, synonym for SAP

I was about to say the same

But don't knock it - SAP keeps me in Shoes and handbags

[Mich the Tester]

So it's a message broker with bells and whistles?

[aussielong]

So it's a message broker with bells and whistles?

Pretty much.