In a recent post by Loraine Lawson on ITBusinessEdge, an informal survey was cited that referenced a majority of mid-market CIOs who “said they had no current business need for SOA.” I was a little surprised by the headline since MuleSoft continues to see tremendous adoption of our open source Mule ESB and subscriptions of our enterprise version among companies I would describe as mid-market. So, I decided to read further and try to learn more. (more…)

Trying to get budget from the C-level in these economic times can be difficult, but integration and SOA initiatives are still very much alive and need to move forward. Check out this blog post and conversation on ebizQ to consider whether “’Guerrilla SOA’ is a realistic option when the CEO doesn’t approve your budget.” (more…)

I am presenting a webinar with GigaSpaces tomorrow on Scalable SOA where we’ll be introducing a powerful joint solution integrating GigaSpaces’ XAP with the open source Mule ESB.

This webinar is intended for developers and architects looking for an end-to-end SOA solution, featuring application resiliency, failover and linear scalability

During this 1-hour event Uri Cohen, Product Manager at GigaSpaces and myself will introduce the joint solution and discuss the underlying details around how the Mule/GigaSpaces integration works. Attendees will see several ways to scale an SOA implementation, the benefits of this integration, example use cases, a live demo and more.

Who should attend?

• GigaSpaces users looking for a lightweight, flexible, integration platform that allows complex workflow support and connectivity with almost every possible protocol
• Mule users who are looking to achieve fault tolerance, high availability, linear scalability and self healing capabilities with their existing Mule applications

Logistics:
Date: February 11, 2009
Time: 9am PDT / noon EDT
Click Here to Register Now

There is an interesting post by Anne Thomas Maines from Burton Group exclaiming that SOA has gone the way of the Dodo:

Once thought to be the savior of IT, SOA instead turned into a great failed experiment—at least for most organizations. SOA was supposed to reduce costs and increase agility on a massive scale. Except in rare situations, SOA has failed to deliver its promised benefits. After investing millions, IT systems are no better than before. In many organizations, things are worse: costs are higher, projects take longer, and systems are more fragile than ever.

Of course the part we all want dead is the vague, hand-wavy, SOA hype. Those that bought into proprietary-SOA and its heavy-handed, “big bang” approach lost out and everyone else got sick of fuzzy SOA promises. But behind any hype in the enterprise space you can find good ideas. The fact is that the ideas behind SOA are as important to us (the distributed masses) as Object Orientation was to the development of complex applications. The difference is that OO required that a single developer to think differently, SOA requires a whole organization of people to think differently- (more…)

Hot on the heals of the Mule 2.1.2 release, we’ve pushed out a new release of Galaxy as well. This release contains many improvements:

• A new custom policy example
• A new AtomPub API usage example
• Fixed LDAP Integration
• Many bug fixes!