Given all the noise that’s been made over messaging middleware recently, one of the pioneers of asynchronous queuing and messaging, PeerLogic Inc, San Francisco, California, has been ominously quiet. The last 12 months almost killed us, the company admits, as it suffered a crisis of confidence over internal differences about how to sell and market its Pipes distributed messaging and management suite. It claims it is now back on track but declined to be more specific about the nature of its problems. The 12 year-old privately-held company has suffered because it developed products before there was a messaging market to speak of. It says it’s now focused on customer-centric solutions for the call center, computer telephony integration and switching markets. It says it has 45 employees. It was one of the companies which contributed to the Object Management Group’s latest asynchronous messaging specification (CI No 3,441), though it would have preferred for messaging to have been integrate at Corba’s infrastructure level, ie, the IIOP transport mechanism.
