That’s what I learned this week at the training: StreamBase is a platform. That’s right, behind the registrations and logins and all that (more on that in a later post), you get to discover an IDE that’s easily the best IDE I’ve seen for event processing (in a very generalised way, a lot of GUI builders are event processing builders). Here you have an interface that basically gives you true drag-and-drop functionality to let you create powerful applications. Not only that, StreamBase lets you create your own things and drag and drop them as well. I’m being a little vague, because it was a lot of material and I’m still sorting it all out in my head, but I’ve come away from it being hugely excited.
This is reminiscent of the excitement that Gentoo generated in me way back in the day — and for similar reasons. I’m looking at the StreamBase Studio the other day in marvel at how this thing is a *platform* that is just waiting to be used. Well, there are some major players using it already — but my goal is to get developers interested in creating applcations on this platform.
My manifesto then: in the upcoming months, I aim to make StreamBase accessible to all you smart people out there 🙂
So, week 1 and I’m actually more excited about being here than I was before I got here (and I wanted really badly to get here).
Kulleen out.