Talarian was a provider of real-time infrastructure software. Now part of TIBCO, it was a veteran provider of message-oriented middleware

Middleware

Middleware is computer software that connects software components or people and their applications. The software consists of a set of services that allows multiple processes running on one or more machines to interact...

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Talarian was a member of the Business Integration Group (BIG), the Internet Protocol Multicast Initiative (IPMI), the Securities Industry Middleware Council (SIMC), the Object Management Group

Object Management Group

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 (OMG), and the Internet Engineering Task Force

Internet Engineering Task Force

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 (IETF).

SmartSockets

SmartSockets was the main product of Talarian. It is a real-time message-oriented middleware

Middleware

Middleware is computer software that connects software components or people and their applications. The software consists of a set of services that allows multiple processes running on one or more machines to interact...

 (MOM) with unlimited scalability

Scalability

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, 100 percent fault tolerance, and intelligent full system exploitation . Its programming model is built specifically to offer high-speed interprocess communication (IPC) for multiprocessor

Multiprocessor

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 architecture, scalability and reliability.

It supports a variety of communication paradigms including publish-subscribe, adaptive multicast

Multicast

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, redundant

Redundancy (engineering)

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 connections, peer-to-peer

Peer-to-peer

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, and RPC

Remote procedure call

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Included as part of the SmartSockets package are graphical tools for monitoring

Monitoring

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 and debugging

Debugging

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 applications.

It is supported on a wide range of platforms:

• HP-UX
• AIX
• Linux
• Compaq NSK/OSS
• Tru64
• OpenVMS
• Windows
• Solaris
• Irix
• VxWorks

Applications using SmartSockets can be developed with the following languages:

• C API
• C++ Class Libraries
• ActiveX Components
• Java Class Library

SmartSockets is now a product of TIBCO. See acquisition

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 below.

Acquisition by TIBCO

In January 2002 TIBCO acquired Talarian for approximately $115 million. It was its primary competitor in the delivery of high-performance messaging solutions.

TIBCO paid $5.30 per share, half in stock and half in cash, for each of Talarian's outstanding shares.

Customers

Talarian customers were large end-users, OEMs and systems integrators in need of solutions where real-time data flow supports high information volumes.

List of Famous Customers:

• Boeing
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• AT&T
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• Hewlett-Packard
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• Cisco
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• MTR
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• New York Stock Exchange
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• NASA
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  's ground control station for the Hubble Space Telescope
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