MuleSource calls out IBM's double standard on open source

Granting that the open source players are starting out from a small revenue base, simple math tells us that if they keep on growing at their present pace they will sooner or later put some real hurt on the sales of incumbent closed source vendors like IBM and Oracle, who have long dominated enterprise middleware and database sales.
I had a chance to explore that and other issues recently with the CEO of one of these new open source middleware challengers, David Rosenberg of MuleSource, a company best known for its Mule ESB product. Below is a lightly edited transcript of our conversation.

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