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MuleSource names SpringSource exec as new CEO

MuleSource, the company behind the top open-source enterprise service bus (ESB) and a leading open-source service-oriented architecture (SOA) vendor, has been without a chief executive for some time, having lost the services of CNET blogger Dave Rosenberg in September. On Monday, the company announced the appointment of Greg Schott as its new CEO.

Schott may familiar to those who follow the sometimes-incestuous open-source talent pool. That's because Schott joins MuleSource from SpringSource, where he was senior vice president of marketing.

Prior to joining SpringSource, Schott had served as senior vice president of marketing and vice president of corporate development … Read more

Nestle scales Nepresso delivery with MuleSource

Nestle's Nespresso division, a Switzerland-based global leader in coffee, with more than 1,700 employees and sales into 50 countries, had the kind of problem most companies would love to have: growth. As its traditional retail channels moved online, it found it difficult to scale its systems to be able to manage its online growth.

Enter MuleSource, with its open-source Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) technology, Mule. In conjunction with a leading open-source system integrator, Optaros, the two put together a highly scalable services-oriented architecture for Nespresso that makes the coffee drip on time:

Nespresso engaged Optaros and MuleSource to … Read more

Top 10 trends in identity management

I read last week in some print publication (that's right, people still read magazines) about a growing "superstructure" of GRC (Governance, Risk Management, and Compliance) and how it starts to address some of the shortcomings of SOA (Service-Oriented Architectures), meaning the stuff in between all the loosely coupled data flying around.

This top 10 list of Identity Management trends explores GRC and some other interesting facts. Personally I am all about trends No. 3 and 4.

Trend No. 3: Open systems and modules instead of monolithic suites… Read more

Workday buys Cape Clear for integration software on demand

Hosted business application provider Workday said Wednesday that it has acquired Cape Clear to create an integration on-demand offering.

Financial terms were not disclosed.

Launched in 2006 by PeopleSoft founder Dave Duffield, Workday sells online versions of traditional ERP business applications, such as human resources management and accounting.

Cape Clear's standards-based integration software, called an enterprise service bus (ESB), will form the basis for an integration on-demand offering the company plans to add to its products. The integration service will allow people to exchange information between Workday applications and those from other providers, including Microsoft Office programs.

Workday said … Read more

Oracle buys BEA after all (what the heck is going on today?)

Marketwatch is reporting that Oracle finally got its hands on BEA after raising their price. Oracle agreed to lift its offer to $19.375 a share in cash, compared to the company's original bid last October of $17 a share. BEA had been holding out for $21 a share. The new proposal reflects a premium of 24% over BEA's closing price on Tuesday of $15.58. The deal also values BEA at $7.2 billion, up from Oracle's initial bid of $6.7 billion What the hell is going on out there? (Oh, and while cash prizes … Read more

WSO2 releases Synapse-based open-source ESB

Open-source start-up WSO2 on Monday released an open-source enterprise service bus based on any Apache Synapse project.

Called WSO2 ESB, the server software is designed to integrate different applications by translating between different protocols and converting different XML formats.

The product is based on Synapse, an open-source ESB done at the Apache Foundation with the participation of WSO2 employees.

The company adds additional features on top of Synapse including a Web-based administration console and a registry and repository, said Paul Fremantle, WSO2 co-founder and its vice president of technical sales.

There are several open source ESB product in the marketplace, … Read more

Open-source firm MuleSource lands additional $12.5 million

MuleSource said on Tuesday that it has raised a second round of $12.5 million, adding to an initial $4 million it raised last fall. This latest round was led by Lightspeed Venture Partners.

MuleSource provides support services around Mule, an open-source integration server based on standards, a product category referred to as an enterprise services bus (ESB). The software provides the plumbing for moving information between applications.

"Open source is effecting the same type of evolution in enterprise integration that it brought to the operating system and application server,? said Ravi Mhatre, general partner at Lightspeed in a … Read more