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> "[Company I've never heard of] and [Another company I've never heard of], I'm going to guess you're under 30? Amongst the many things Tibco sold was Rendezv

> "[Company I've never heard of] and [Another company I've never heard of], I'm going to guess you're under 30? Amongst the many things Tibco sold was Rendezvous, which was extremely popular in the banks for running trading systems back in... the 90s and early 00s. Then of course, multi-core chips came along and sending messages to other processes on single cores over the network, versus, other processes in the same bit of silicon via memory instead. And Citrix - another extremely popular bit of software for connecting remotely to Windows boxes (amongst other things). Again in the 90s and early 00s. There seems to be so many of these zombie companies now. Embarcadero is another one that always springs to mind. Produces nothing new, just shambles around on existing revenue streams.

animal531 4y ago
I worked with Tibco's message queue back in the 00's somewhere...but to be honest I though they had gone under. Citrix should be more well known, but if you've never worked in a Windows environment then perhaps not.
- ptsneves 4y ago
  JMS righ?
- tanghall09 4y ago
  Tibco has pulsar, kafka and jms for mainstream streaming & queueing use cases. And FTL for low latency messaging. Not exactly on TechCrunch, but there is a lot of it out there in enterprises. Citrix also has a major load balancer/“ADC” business - formerly Netscaler. Had to look it up recently for a k8s ingress controller.
greggsy 4y ago
Citrix is alive and well in large organisations
mring33621 4y ago
My current, HUGE employer bases its whole remote/local workstation tech on Citrix products. At a previous, also HUGE employer, we used Tibco Rendezvous for FX trade messaging and it was a great product, in that it was performant and never seemed to fail.
tanghall09 4y ago
The successor to Rendezvous called FTL is optimized for low latency messaging over shared mem/rdma/infiniband etc and even inter-thread within a process. There is some neat distributed systems engineering in systems like FTL if your work depends on that kinda thing (trading, manufacturing, logistics, etc.) For the rest, there is always Pulsar/Kafka/WS/JMS. https://docs.tibco.com/pub/ftl/4.3.0/doc/html/GUID-C2A32299-BA94-4BDD-B5AF-DA70D16FE999.html https://docs.tibco.com/pub/ftl/4.3.0/doc/html/GUID-C2A32299-...

animal531 4y ago

I worked with Tibco's message queue back in the 00's somewhere...but to be honest I though they had gone under. Citrix should be more well known, but if you've never worked in a Windows environment then perhaps not.

ptsneves 4y ago
JMS righ?
tanghall09 4y ago
Tibco has pulsar, kafka and jms for mainstream streaming & queueing use cases. And FTL for low latency messaging. Not exactly on TechCrunch, but there is a lot of it out there in enterprises. Citrix also has a major load balancer/“ADC” business - formerly Netscaler. Had to look it up recently for a k8s ingress controller.

greggsy 4y ago

Citrix is alive and well in large organisations

mring33621 4y ago

My current, HUGE employer bases its whole remote/local workstation tech on Citrix products. At a previous, also HUGE employer, we used Tibco Rendezvous for FX trade messaging and it was a great product, in that it was performant and never seemed to fail.

tanghall09 4y ago

The successor to Rendezvous called FTL is optimized for low latency messaging over shared mem/rdma/infiniband etc and even inter-thread within a process. There is some neat distributed systems engineering in systems like FTL if your work depends on that kinda thing (trading, manufacturing, logistics, etc.) For the rest, there is always Pulsar/Kafka/WS/JMS. https://docs.tibco.com/pub/ftl/4.3.0/doc/html/GUID-C2A32299-BA94-4BDD-B5AF-DA70D16FE999.html https://docs.tibco.com/pub/ftl/4.3.0/doc/html/GUID-C2A32299-...