Merging in public is difficult...

Sounds like Aleri and Coral8 in the CEP (Complex Event Processing) market are not doing the best job they could of managing the publicity surrounding their recent merger, not helped by announcement of a CEP capability by Sybase, based on Coral8 source code. 

Explained more in a post on the Magmasystems Blog, and made more entertaining by the aggressive marketing tactics of Streambase in responding to the merger by offering a software trade-in facility for clients of Aleri and Coral8 (see press release).