PeerLogic Inc, San Francisco is working up a bunch of relationships and technologies that will see its Pipes messaging system pitched more squarely into the emerging distributed application partitioning and object technology markets. Both markets, it agrees, are characterised by rampant partnering at the moment: indeed it has been on tour talking to practically everyone in these areas. As a consequence, it expects to begin offering additional tool connections for application builders and messaging services for object request brokers. After assessing what is on offer, it reckons that none of the application partitioning folk really do the distributed story properly, and that the Object Request Broker community is in general very weak when it comes to underlying naming and communications services. It really likes the type of distributed message-passing techniques that ICL Plc is applying to its DAIS Common Object Request Broker Architecture Object Request Broker environment, but said that it could ultimately end up competing with Fujitsu Ltd’s UK company depending on how the two develop and package their respective offerings. PeerLogic is preparing a graphical tool for release this year which will hook Pipes into Simple Network Management Protocol management environments and it has other IBM Corp-related work coming down the tube. Its IBM System Object Model-enabled version of the Pipes messaging system is on track for delivery next quarter, it says.
