Alex Fletcher is lead industry analyst at Entiva Group Incorporated, a research and analyst firm which specializes exclusively on the open source software industry. In addition to his analyst coverage activities, he advises organizations of all sizes on establishing governance, strategy and policy surrounding use of open source software as a competitive differentiator. Fletcher has prior experience as a consultant, software engineer and start-up founder. He can be reached at alex dot fletcher -at- entivagroup dot com.
Alex Fletcher's "Open Source Unleashed" Blog
Even if the announcement that Apache Software Foundation (ASF) granted
Synapse separate, top-level project billing last week didn't generate major
waves of uproar of reaction and commentary, it remains a significant move to
the overall state of a burgeoning open source SOA arena. Initially, after
first catching wind of Synapse in early spring of last year, I was thrown off
slightly by some of the divergent descriptions/understandings of the effort
that were floating around the web and as is the case with incubated open
source projects it was a rapidly changing code base looking to grow in a more
concisely defined direction over time. Since this is normally the case with
early stage open source efforts especially those that set ... (more)
Alex Fletcher's Blog
Undoubtedly, as the Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) continues to emerge as a
hallmark of service-oriented architecture (SOA), the competition between open
source and proprietary products will continue to heat up. Granted, ESB is a
well-established category of infrastructure software. Enterprises across the
world (medium to large) rely on this technology to provide the re... (more)
Alex Fletcher is lead industry analyst at Entiva Group Incorporated, a research and analyst firm which specializes exclusively on the open source software industry. In addition to his analyst coverage activities, he advises organizations of all sizes on establishing governance, strategy and policy surrounding use of open source software as a competitive differentiator. Fletcher has prior experience as a consultant, software engineer and start-up founder. He can be reached at alex dot fletcher -at- entivagroup dot com.
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