Jeff Gould
July 13, 2008

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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18Apr

Microsoft's Ozzie talks open source, mesh

By Nancy Gohring (IDG News Service)
Microsoft has "dramatically" changed because of open-source software, the company's Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie said Thursday as part of a wide-ranging discussion during the annual Most Valuable Professional summit in Seattle. He also talked about Microsoft's mesh concept and the importance of virtualization.
"Microsoft fundamentally, as a whole, has changed dramatically as a result of open source," Ozzie said. "As people have been using it more and more, the nature of interoperability between our systems and others has increased." That means that from the very start when Microsoft begins developing new products, it considers what components it will want to open up to outside developers, he said.

http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/144781/microsofts_ozzie_talks_open_source_mesh.html

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