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high-end features in an attempt to appeal to small and medium-size businesses.
In the case of Iona, which is also participating in Synapse, the company is seeking to create a "dual strategy" of gaining support revenue from Celtix while offering customers a higher-end edition of the same product, called Artix.
"The goal of the industry at this point is to get service-oriented infrastructure (software) into the hands of customers for the least possible cost, so you can drive adoption of it," Newcomer said.
The ServiceMix and Synapse software will be made available under the Apache 2.0 license, while Celtix is expected to use the Lesser General Public License, or LGPL. Both licenses are considered open source. However, the differences could create legal entanglements, particularly in regard to sharing code. To ease those concerns, Iona intends to republish any code used by the other projects under the Apache license, Newcomer said.
The planned partnership between participants in the Celtix and ServiceMix projects is also meant to sort out potential areas of confusion and overlap, according to people involved in the discussions.
"We're not going to compete; we're going to reuse," said James Strachan, the founder of the ServiceMix project and the chief architect of LogicBlaze, a company founded by Simula Labs earlier this year.
LogicBlaze now offers commercial support services behind the ServiceMix software and intends to offer similar services for the Celtix and Synapse code, he said.
"We're going to compete aggressively and shake up the market for all middleware vendors," Strachan said. "JBoss has done this in the application servers, and we're going after the messaging and integration space."
Though the combination of products may be compelling on paper, the three projects do face hurdles in adoption, noted observers.
In a post on open-source ESB projects, Annrai O'Toole, CEO of ESB vendor Cape Clear, argued that most successful open-source projects have a grassroots following.
"Just because a piece of code is open source doesn't suddenly endow it with natural greatness or popularity. A useless bit of code is a useless bit of code irrespective of its openness," O'Toole wrote.
Also, the process of coordinating efforts among different open-source projects, some of which are staffed with people from commercial vendors, could be challenging.
Even though open-source ESBs may be available for free, there will still be cost in the form of support and installation contracts, noted Forrester's Goulde. He added that with a growing list of ESB-related open-source projects, developer customers could easily be confused.
"One aspect of the open-source spirit is to pick one thing and do it well. We might see some of the capabilities of individual products trying to specialize in a piece of the architecture and make sure they all work together well," Goulde said. "It's too early in the process to see how things will shake out."
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There are many integration software products available. Most, if not all, of them are expensive (I wonder why Microsoft's Biztalk Server is not mentioned in the article...). Thus, the open source product lines.
I think the alliance offers potental if they can agree on a standard protocol and format to communicate and exchange data with each other rather than just sharing source codes. I think that a standard integration framework is essential. Something that users can immediately use out-of-the-box to integrate without much development or customization effort.
Microsoft Biztalk Server, for example, already has something like that called the Microsoft Biztalk Framework which is of course proprietary but the specification is freely available.
A similar framework for the alliance (which they can maybe propose as a standard) I think should enable true "unity" despite each products targetting different integration concerns.
But then, they seemed pretty hyper on the Bus, just when I hear peaople talk about getting OFF the bus. So, maybe this article has been on file for a while, awaiting a quiet moment ?
Not all integration models calls for pub/sub, and the features, found on the hub. I've recently been looking at new products offering interchangable MQ XML messages & SOAP XML messages. I foresee a time, when comapnies integrate to have part pub-sub, part point-to-point, with messages changing as they pass through.
I just don't think there's as much demand for Pub/Sub as was suggested in the industry a few years ago, and there may be MORE demand for point-to-point.
If these open source organisations have success, good luck to them. But when a financial services organisation has billions or trillions of dollars going through their systems every day, the cost of the established market leaders products becomes much less of an expense.
To view a quick demo of the product, click on the following: http://demo.com/demonstrators/demo2006/63000.html
To download the product click on the following that will take you to sourceforge: http://jitterbit.com/Product/download.php
To view what the community is using it for visit the forums on http://jitterbit.com/Community/index.php
This is the first open source offering that has been package like a commercial product but with tools that are much easier to use.
There are many integration software products available. Most, if not all, of them are expensive (I wonder why Microsoft's Biztalk Server is not mentioned in the article...). Thus, the open source product lines.
I think the alliance offers potental if they can agree on a standard protocol and format to communicate and exchange data with each other rather than just sharing source codes. I think that a standard integration framework is essential. Something that users can immediately use out-of-the-box to integrate without much development or customization effort.
Microsoft Biztalk Server, for example, already has something like that called the Microsoft Biztalk Framework which is of course proprietary but the specification is freely available.
A similar framework for the alliance (which they can maybe propose as a standard) I think should enable true "unity" despite each products targetting different integration concerns.
But then, they seemed pretty hyper on the Bus, just when I hear peaople talk about getting OFF the bus. So, maybe this article has been on file for a while, awaiting a quiet moment ?
Not all integration models calls for pub/sub, and the features, found on the hub. I've recently been looking at new products offering interchangable MQ XML messages & SOAP XML messages. I foresee a time, when comapnies integrate to have part pub-sub, part point-to-point, with messages changing as they pass through.
I just don't think there's as much demand for Pub/Sub as was suggested in the industry a few years ago, and there may be MORE demand for point-to-point.
If these open source organisations have success, good luck to them. But when a financial services organisation has billions or trillions of dollars going through their systems every day, the cost of the established market leaders products becomes much less of an expense.
To view a quick demo of the product, click on the following: http://demo.com/demonstrators/demo2006/63000.html
To download the product click on the following that will take you to sourceforge: http://jitterbit.com/Product/download.php
To view what the community is using it for visit the forums on http://jitterbit.com/Community/index.php
This is the first open source offering that has been package like a commercial product but with tools that are much easier to use.
There are many integration software products available. Most, if not all, of them are expensive (I wonder why Microsoft's Biztalk Server is not mentioned in the article...). Thus, the open source product lines.
I think the alliance offers potental if they can agree on a standard protocol and format to communicate and exchange data with each other rather than just sharing source codes. I think that a standard integration framework is essential. Something that users can immediately use out-of-the-box to integrate without much development or customization effort.
Microsoft Biztalk Server, for example, already has something like that called the Microsoft Biztalk Framework which is of course proprietary but the specification is freely available.
A similar framework for the alliance (which they can maybe propose as a standard) I think should enable true "unity" despite each products targetting different integration concerns.
But then, they seemed pretty hyper on the Bus, just when I hear peaople talk about getting OFF the bus. So, maybe this article has been on file for a while, awaiting a quiet moment ?
Not all integration models calls for pub/sub, and the features, found on the hub. I've recently been looking at new products offering interchangable MQ XML messages & SOAP XML messages. I foresee a time, when comapnies integrate to have part pub-sub, part point-to-point, with messages changing as they pass through.
I just don't think there's as much demand for Pub/Sub as was suggested in the industry a few years ago, and there may be MORE demand for point-to-point.
If these open source organisations have success, good luck to them. But when a financial services organisation has billions or trillions of dollars going through their systems every day, the cost of the established market leaders products becomes much less of an expense.
To view a quick demo of the product, click on the following: http://demo.com/demonstrators/demo2006/63000.html
To download the product click on the following that will take you to sourceforge: http://jitterbit.com/Product/download.php
To view what the community is using it for visit the forums on http://jitterbit.com/Community/index.php
This is the first open source offering that has been package like a commercial product but with tools that are much easier to use.
- Thank for this article
- by gsvdb January 17, 2007 1:48 PM PST
- You hit it on the nose. We need to see more solid stand alone applications integrate rather than seeing a whole new project. The company that I work for released Shine Live Help to integrate with SugarCRM. Bringing together applications greatly increases the value of both applications for giving customer support. Open source applications that add to an already strong project can really gain momentum quickly.
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