Digital Equipment Corp’s DECmessageQ is by far and away the best message-oriented middleware product in the market but is being let down by an almost non-existent marketing strategy, according to a report from London, UK-based market consultant Ovum Ltd. The report is Ovum’s second study of middleware after its examination of database communications middleware (CI No 2,893). It looks at IBM Corp’s MQSeries and DEC’s DEC-messageQ, as they command 500 and 600 customers respectively, Verimation Inc’s Vcom because the report regards it as a promising newcomer, Peer Logic Inc’s Pipes for its naming service and Momentum Software Inc’s X-IPC for its large installed base and support for shared queues, semaphores and shared memory. It awards DECmessageQ a score of 15, Vcom 12, MQ-Series 10 and X-IPC and Pipes 8 each. The report is $2,775.
