Confluent CORE was a different product that ones I'd reviewed before. There was not specific transport layer included, just gateways, agents, and management points. There are certain businesses that will be very interested in the model that Confluent uses. For example, I was speaking to Scott Loftesness a few month ago about Web services and he made the observation that the financial services industry is not likely to embrace a third-party active intermediary model because of the security risks that would have to be mitigated. I'm inclined to believe Scott on this. CORE is an alternative that provides many necessary features without the attending potential risk of a third party intermediary.