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

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, it was a veteran provider of

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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

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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

middleware Middleware is a type of computer software program that provides services to software applications beyond those available from the operating system. It can be described as "software glue". Middleware makes it easier for software developers to imple ...

(MOM) which is

scalable Scalability is the property of a system to handle a growing amount of work. One definition for software systems specifies that this may be done by adding resources to the system. In an economic context, a scalable business model implies that ...

and

fault tolerant Fault tolerance is the ability of a system to maintain proper operation despite failures or faults in one or more of its components. This capability is essential for high-availability, mission-critical, or even life-critical systems. Fault t ...

. Its programming model is built specifically to offer high-speed

interprocess communication In computer science, interprocess communication (IPC) is the sharing of data between running processes in a computer system. Mechanisms for IPC may be provided by an operating system. Applications which use IPC are often categorized as clients ...

(IPC) for

multiprocessor Multiprocessing (MP) 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. The ...

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

multicast In computer networking, multicast is a type of 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 differs from ph ...

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connections,

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, and

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

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applications. It is supported on a wide range of platforms: *

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NSK/OSS *

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Applications using SmartSockets can be developed with the following languages: * C

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Class Libraries *

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Components *

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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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's ground control station for the

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References

Talarian : Everything You Need To Know About Middleware
2002 mergers and acquisitions Middleware Software companies based in California Defunct software companies of the United States Software companies established in 1989 Software companies disestablished in 2002