MuleSource Adds New VP of Engineering to Executive Team.Former Oracle Group Director of Engineering, Ron Park, Joins New Hummer Winblad and Morgenthaler- Funded Integration Software Start-Up 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 the addition of Ron Park as the company's new VP of Engineering. Prior to joining MuleSource, Ron managed software development across three product lines as Group Director of Engineering for Oracle's CRM (Customer Relationship Management) An integrated information system that is used to plan, schedule and control the presales and postsales activities in an organization. applications division. At MuleSource, Park and his team will develop new management tools and components for enterprise customers using the popular Mule integration platform (http://mule.mulesource.org). Mule is a Java-based, open source ESB (Enterprise Services Bus) A message broker that supports Web services. See message broker, messaging middleware and Web services. and integration platform that enables enterprise developers to perform a wide variety of integration tasks, from bringing new applications into production, to modernizing legacy applications and platforms, to enabling 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. (Service-Oriented Architecture). With hundreds of production deployments worldwide, Mule is the industry's most battle-tested open source integration approach. "MuleSource is the clear market leader in open source ESB and integration, and it provides the world with an elegant way to avoid proprietary vendor lock-in," said Park. "The incredible uptake of the Mule project by enterprise production users is proving that the market is ready for lightweight, open source alternatives for their integration needs. I'm looking forward to working with Ross Mason [Mule creator] and the rest of the engineering team to continue the evolution of the Mule platform, and to keep driving new tools and capabilities for MuleSource subscribers." Park's 18-year career in the software industry includes expertise in a comprehensive range of enterprise technologies, including Java, 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. , SOA, EAI (Enterprise Application Integration) Refers to various techniques used to share data and business processes in large enterprises. When companies acquire another organization, disparate information systems have to be made to work together. , enterprise applications (CRM, Financial Services, ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) An integrated information system that serves all departments within an enterprise. Evolving out of the manufacturing industry, ERP implies the use of packaged software rather than proprietary software written by or for one customer. , e-commerce), master data management, CDI CDI compact disc interactive: a system for storing a mix of software, data, audio, and compressed video for interactive use under processor control , web services, and relational databases. 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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