Talarian was a provider of real-time infrastructure software. Now part of

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, it was a veteran provider of

message-oriented middleware Message-oriented middleware (MOM) is software or hardware infrastructure supporting sending and receiving messages between distributed systems. MOM allows application modules to be distributed over heterogeneous platforms and reduces the comple ...

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

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(OMG), and the

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(IETF).

SmartSockets

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

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(MOM) which is scalable and fault tolerant. Its programming model is built specifically to offer high-speed

interprocess communication In computer science, inter-process communication or interprocess communication (IPC) refers specifically to the mechanisms an operating system provides to allow the processes to manage shared data. Typically, applications can use IPC, categoriz ...

(IPC) for

multiprocessor Multiprocessing is the use of two or more central processing units (CPUs) within a single computer system. The term also refers to the ability of a system to support more than one processor or the ability to allocate tasks between them. There ar ...

architecture, scalability and reliability. It supports a variety of communication paradigms including publish-subscribe, adaptive

multicast In computer networking, multicast is group communication where data transmission is addressed to a group of destination computers simultaneously. Multicast can be one-to-many or many-to-many distribution. Multicast should not be confused with ...

, redundant connections,

peer-to-peer Peer-to-peer (P2P) computing or networking is a distributed application architecture that partitions tasks or workloads between peers. Peers are equally privileged, equipotent participants in the network. They are said to form a peer-to-peer ...

, and RPC. Included as part of the SmartSockets package are graphical tools for

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and debugging 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

. See acquisition 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: *

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* Hewlett-Packard *

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* MTR *

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's ground control station for the

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References

Talarian : Everything You Need To Know About Middleware
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