Tuesday, October 11, 2005

March of ESBs

March of the ESBs by ZDNet's Joe McKendrick -- It's no use fighting ESBs; they're an unstoppable wave now. First IBM announced it was offering not one, but two (count 'em, two) enterprise service buses, and now word is out that JBoss also is getting into the ESB act. InfoWorld's Paul Krill reports that the open-source app server company "plans to offer an open-source ESB in 2006." Along with IBM and JBoss, a lot of infrastucture vendors have been getting on the bus lately, including BEA. And, the open-source world has another ESB-like architecture in the offing — the Apache Synapse Web services intermediary.[...]

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