Wombat is one of the leading providers of direct exchange feed handlers. The Wombat feed handlers were designed to run over a range of messaging layers. Rather than re implement the market data semantics separately for each potential platform, Wombat created an abstraction layer (MAMA) to provide a consistent API no matter what messaging was used in the system, allowing customers choice. Most customers historically used Tibco's RV product as the messaging layer. In early 2004, Wombat entered into a licensing agreement with 29West to offer the LBM messaging layer as an alternative to the RV messaging most of their customers were using.

Wombat customers are now able to measure the performance gains when running a high load application like the direct exchange feeds over LBM and compare it to the performance over legacy messaging systems like RV. LBM has allowed Wombat customers to deploy more complex and higher performing solutions than would have been possible under RV or other messaging layers.

They choose LBM for stability, performance, efficiency, and flexibility. See the related news article for further details on this relationship.