Comments on: IBM to acquire ILOG and other rumors http://pathfindersoftware.com/2006/03/_ibm_to_acquire/ The Fastest Way to Launch Successful Software Thu, 19 Jan 2012 16:36:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Peter Lin http://pathfindersoftware.com/2006/03/_ibm_to_acquire/#comment-5058 Peter Lin Thu, 30 Mar 2006 04:11:39 +0000 http://www.pathf.com/blogs/2006/03/_ibm_to_acquire/#comment-5058 <p>Actually, I know that Oracle started working on their own rule engine back in 2001, but their recent release wraps other RETE engines. IBM has ABLE and CommonRules. Both projects are on IBM's AlphaWorks. ABLE stands for Agent Building learning environment, which claims to implement RETE. CommonRules is a tuple based implementation and was started by Benjamin Grosoff before he left IBM and joined MIT.</p> <p>Aside from FairIssacs and iLog, there's also Mindbox, which uses CBR approach. They also happen to own the old C++ RETE engine build by ART Technologies. ART inspired CLIPS, so in many ways most engines today are decendents of OPS5 rule engine.</p> <p>peter lin</p> Actually, I know that Oracle started working on their own rule engine back in 2001, but their recent release wraps other RETE engines. IBM has ABLE and CommonRules. Both projects are on IBM’s AlphaWorks. ABLE stands for Agent Building learning environment, which claims to implement RETE. CommonRules is a tuple based implementation and was started by Benjamin Grosoff before he left IBM and joined MIT.

Aside from FairIssacs and iLog, there’s also Mindbox, which uses CBR approach. They also happen to own the old C++ RETE engine build by ART Technologies. ART inspired CLIPS, so in many ways most engines today are decendents of OPS5 rule engine.

peter lin

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