January 16, 2008

MuleSource expands its SOA lineup

This week, MuleSource, known for its open source enterprise service bus (ESB) offering, announced a trio of product updates and new offerings. In addition to enhancing the Enterprise version of the company's namesake Mule Enterprise Service Bus (ESB), the vendor debuted a tool for monitoring transactions and a registry. The enhanced lineup now enables MuleSource to embed itself deeper into service-oriented architecture (SOA) deployments.

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Posted by TomR at 10:04 AM |

December 05, 2006

IONA fully embraces its Celtix open source experiment

IONA Technologies is making Celtix, an open source enterprise service bus (ESB), part of its core offerings. Previously, the company had heavily promoted its two commercial product families: Artix, its ESB, and Orbix, its battle-tested CORBA solution. But with this recent announcement, Celtix Enterprise becomes a fully marketed and supported IONA product -- the third element in the company's distributed computing portfolio.

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Posted by TomR at 02:18 PM |

November 14, 2006

Sun recharges the Java community with open source announcement

Yesterday, Sun Microsystems made official what company executives had promised to do: open source Java. Specifically, Sun is releasing "Java platform implementations" under the GPL open source license. This effort will help recharge the Java community and provide renewed energy to improve the Java platform in order to take on competitive offerings, particularly Microsoft's .NET Framework.

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Posted by TomR at 10:56 AM |

May 09, 2006

Celtix, the open source ESB, makes its official debut

Celtix, the open source enterprise service bus (ESB), reached a major milestone this past Monday with the release of version 1.0. ESBs are the middleware that enables and regulates the activities in a service-oriented architecture (SOA). While there is no single industrywide definition of the term, an SOA is most often described as a distributed computing architecture based on integrating service-enabled applications (services) and relying on core technologies like Web services and XML.Many organizations are...

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Posted by TomR at 04:03 PM |

September 14, 2005

Software development in the new age: IONA's aggressive embrace of open source

Before service oriented architecture (SOA), distributed computing battles were often waged between Microsoft's DCOM (Distributed Component Object Model) supporters and vendor-neutral CORBA (Common Object Request Broker Architecture) proponents. While these technologies don't generate much press these days, they continue to run many critical systems, particularly in large enterprises.IONA redefines its imageIONA Technologies, with headquarters in Waltham, Mass., and Dublin, made its name selling and supporting CORBA solutions with its Orbix offering. Now, the company is...

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Posted by TomR at 01:16 AM |

March 03, 2004

Open source's unfair advantage: Vendors, volunteers, and happy users

An article on Pamela Jones, the founder of the blog-turned-Web site Groklaw (a site devoted to analyzing the legal aspects of the various SCO-related lawsuits involving vendors IBM and Red Hat and, now, user companies AutoZone and DaimlerChrysler), drove home the point that the foes of open source software (OSS) and the related GPL (anti-OSS/GPL for short) are fighting a battle that they can't win.To understand why OSS won't be defeated, let's first look at...

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Posted by TomR at 01:33 AM |

October 22, 2003

What’s your excuse for not trying OpenOffice.org?

Whether your organization is a die-hard Microsoft shop or is looking for the first opportunity to ditch the Microsoft Windows operating systems and Office productivity suite – or anywhere in between – there is no good reason why someone in your organization should not be keeping an eye on the free and easily downloadable OpenOffice.org productivity suite. The OpenOffice.org offering OpenOffice.org software is a productivity suite that includes a word processor, along with a spreadsheet,...

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Posted by TomR at 10:39 AM |

October 07, 2003

Sun Java Desktop System and its siblings battle Microsoft Windows/Office

Last month, Sun Microsystems announced a new software offering called the Sun Java Desktop System (JDS), a bundle of enhanced open source software to compete with Microsoft’s dominant Windows operating system and Office productivity suite. Most of the business and technology media and analysts seemed unimpressed. Some even said that it was doomed because they considered the product to be a desktop for primarily running Java applications – understandable because of its name. But New...

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Posted by TomR at 10:45 AM |