I heard of TIBCO in two ways, the first time was from my housemates friend who was visiting. We were still poor college students and this friend was making fat

I heard of TIBCO in two ways, the first time was from my housemates friend who was visiting. We were still poor college students and this friend was making fat stacks as a consultant for TIBCO. Apparently their business model is selling their system for cheap, throwing in as much support and help as they can integrating it deep in their clients business processes. And once that's succesful they raise the prices each year to exorbitant amounts. The other way I learned at a meetup that was hosted by the ING (a large international bank). An architect was trying to recruit me to come work at ING and explained their fancy architecture to me. Right at the heart of it was a TIBCO message passing layer. It made me cringe. I don't know why they couldn't have just picked rabbitmq or something, probably similar reasons to why some companies pick oracle over postgres. I don't think it's worth it, but I'm not an enterprise architect.