Mule Reaches 500,000 Downloads Milestone.SAN FRANCISCO San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden -- MuleSource (www.mulesource.com), the leading provider of open source infrastructure and integration software, today announced that Mule (http://mule.mulesource.org) has reached the 500,000 downloads milestone. Following an initial open source release in 2003 by creator Ross Mason, Mule has become the enterprise developer's most-used integration platform, and is currently in production at multiple Fortune 50 companies and more than 120 large enterprises worldwide. Mule gained initial developer traction as the industry's first open source ESB (Enterprise Services Bus) A message broker that supports Web services. See message broker, messaging middleware and Web services. (Enterprise Service Bus). Over time the user community has leveraged its simple configuration-based programming model to execute a wide range of J2EE (Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition) A platform from Sun for building distributed enterprise applications. J2EE services are performed in the middle tier between the user's machine and the enterprise's databases and legacy information systems. integration tasks, with the ESB as one of many implementation topologies for Mule. "As a developer, you face an infinite number infinite number a number so large as to be uncountable. Represented by 8, frequently obtained by 'dividing' by zero. of integration scenarios, so rigid tools that mandate specific architecture and standards choices have very limited value," said Mason. "Mule was designed to be the developer's first multi-purpose platform for integration. Because it's so modular, and because it supports such a comprehensive list (http://www.mulesource.com/products/muletech.php) of technologies and standards in enterprise production environments -- Mule is the one integration platform that truly adapts to the developer's environment. It's a great alternative to the rigid integration frameworks that impose architecture choices and approaches on the developer." Today Mule use cases span every conceivable enterprise integration task - from integrating web services (1) Loosely, any online service delivered over the Web. Such usage appears in articles from non-technical sources, but not in IT-oriented publications, because definition #2 below describes the correct use of the term. and applications, to creating powerful messaging backbones for financial services The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. trading, to establishing frameworks that facilitate SOA (1) (Start Of Authority) The first record in a DNS zone file. See DNS records. (2) (Service Oriented Architecture) The modularization of business functions for greater flexibility and reusability. deployments. In October of 2006, venture capital firms Name Location Founding date Managing Partners/Directors Specialty Capital managed 5AM Ventures Menlo Park, CA; Waltham, MA 2002 John Diekman, PhD (managing partner), Scott Rocklage, PhD (managing partner), Andrew Schwab (managing partner) life sciences $200M [1] Hummer Winblad and Morgenthaler funded MuleSource to serve as the official support and services organization for the Mule user base. Following the company launch, MuleSource rolled out new subscription options (http://www.mulesource.com/support/) for Mule users, as well as introduced MuleHQ (click here for PDF (Portable Document Format) The de facto standard for document publishing from Adobe. On the Web, there are countless brochures, data sheets, white papers and technical manuals in the PDF format. brochure: http://www.mulesource.com/solutions/downloads/MuleSource_MuleHQ.pdf) a monitoring and management system for Mule environments. "In 2007, we are engineering a number of other exciting new capabilities into the Mule platform," said Dave Rosenberg Boxer Dave Rosenberg was born in New York on May 15 1901. He was managed by Joe Schwinger and won the National and New York State Amateur Championship titles in 1919 before turning professional in October of that year. He died aged 77 on February 01 1979 [1] , CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. and Co-founder of MuleSource. "While the platform supports the vast majority of technologies in today's enterprises, we are bringing in new capabilities to help users bridge the integration needs of new architectures and software development models they are evolving towards." According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. analyst firm IDC, by 2013, 72 percent of all servers will be virtual (source: http://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=prUS20487606). In 2007, MuleSource will release a virtual Mule appliance with partner CohesiveFT. Mule's virtual appliance will make it possible to run Mule inside of a virtual container in VMware Player environments. Additionally, a Q2 release of the MuleHQ product will support management and monitoring of VM instances of Mule. According to Gartner, SOA will be used in more than 50% of new "mission-critical" applications designed in 2007 (source: http://www.gartner.com/DisplayDocument?id=498449). Designed to support high-performance, multi-protocol transactions between services across an enterprise network - Mule is used in production environments today as the messaging backbone for SOA. Mule supports leading BPEL See WSBPEL. BPEL - Web Services Business Process Execution Language , rules engines and process management engines - and in 2007 will announce technology partnerships with complimentary SOA technology vendors. According to analyst firm Gartner, 25% of new business software will be delivered as software-as-a-service (SaaS) packs by 2011, up from 5% in 2005 (source: http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=496886). As SaaS continues to rise, both service providers and consumers will face new transport-level protocol integration and data integration challenges. Mule was originally created in the financial services trading environment, and is uniquely suited to enable SaaS providers to scale their platform to handle these type of transport-level issues as their subscriber bases grow. In 2007, Mule will announce a number of new integration offerings for SaaS providers. In Q2 of 2007, MuleSource also plans to announce the release of Mule version 2.0. Join the MuleSource mailing list (http://www.mulesource.com/company/) for more updates on Mule 2.0 and other MuleSource announcements. For more information on MuleSource support & services options for production Mule users, please call 1-877-MULE-OSS, or email info@mulesource.com. About MuleSource MuleSource is the leading provider of open source infrastructure and integration software. Founded by the creators of the Mule project, the world's most reliable and widely-used open source ESB and integration platform, MuleSource delivers enterprise-class support and services to the hundreds of organizations that have downloaded the open source project worldwide. Founded in 2006 and backed by investors Hummer Winblad Venture Partners and Morgenthaler Ventures, MuleSource is headquartered in San Francisco. |
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