Most Open Source Projects (Not the namesake open source projects) are released under an OSI approved license. The open source definition of OSI states that "Open source doesn't just mean access to the source code. The distribution terms of open-source software must comply with the following criteria:". It goes on to describe 10 items under this. Item #6 states that "The license must not restrict anyone from making use of the program in a specific field of endeavor. For example, it may not restrict the program from being used in a business, or from being used for genetic research."
The Mule Enterprise Edition (Mule EE) violates item #6 which is described above. The License of Mule EE states that you cannot publicly publish performance results against it. Whats more if you go to the mule site you won't find the source code of Mule EE, rather it asks you weather you are "Looking for the open source Mule Community Edition?".
What baffles me is that Dave Rosenberg the CEO Mule states that "The Enterprise version of Mule is open source". Take a look at Dave's comment on Sanjiva's blog. What a joke.
Now Mule CE is an open source ESB. But would anybody care to use it in production? Look what we found out about Mule CE during some performance testing. 1% of all requests sent to Mule CE 2.0.1 fails. Now thats how you sell Mule EE keeping Mule CE Open Source.
Friday, June 27, 2008
Training session on Apache Axis2
A couple of weeks ago we were fortunate to attend a training on Axis2 which was conducted by Deepal. There is no better person to teach Axis2 than Deepal himself cause he has been involved with this project since its inception. Deepal is one of the six core Axis2 authors. The others are Srinath, Eran Chinthaka, Ajith, Chathura and Jaliya. There have been many others who've help Axis2 once the project started going, but these were the guys involved in building the core of it. Not to forget Dr. Sanjiva for all the advice and guidance provided.
The guys who knew Axis2 to some extent were able to make to most of this training, as we were able to question certain decisions made at that time.
Its also nice to note that except for Deepal. the rest are already reading for there PhDs. Deepal will be joining that list next month when he will head off for higher studies. Its also a interesting that the core Axis2 team has been associated with WSO2.
Deepal has also published his first book on Axis2 "Quickstart Apache Axis2" which is now available in the stores.
The Axis2 training was a great success so now its time to learn some policy. Again there will be no better person than Sanka himself, the person behind Apache Neethi (The policy engine used for Apache Axis2 as well as CXF). Once next week is done all of WSO2 will be policy experts too.
All of these are a part on continuous improvement to us.
The guys who knew Axis2 to some extent were able to make to most of this training, as we were able to question certain decisions made at that time.
Its also nice to note that except for Deepal. the rest are already reading for there PhDs. Deepal will be joining that list next month when he will head off for higher studies. Its also a interesting that the core Axis2 team has been associated with WSO2.
Deepal has also published his first book on Axis2 "Quickstart Apache Axis2" which is now available in the stores.
The Axis2 training was a great success so now its time to learn some policy. Again there will be no better person than Sanka himself, the person behind Apache Neethi (The policy engine used for Apache Axis2 as well as CXF). Once next week is done all of WSO2 will be policy experts too.
All of these are a part on continuous improvement to us.
Thursday, June 26, 2008
Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) Performance Revealed
It was recently that WSO2 released the 1.7 version of its Enterprise Service Bus (ESB). This release is based on Apache Synapse 1.2 which in turn is built on Apache Axis2 1.4.
There are many things that come in to play when deciding on which ESB to go with. Some of them are Performance, Licensing, Usability, Stability... etc. WSO2 has always been at the forefront when it comes to benchmarking ESB performance. You can find previous performance comparisons here and here. We've always been open as to how we conduct them and has always tried to get help from the relevant projects on how to configure them best.
Asankha the product manager of the WSO2 Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) recently published performance results based on its 1.7 release. The WSO2 Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) was compared with other leading implementations - both open source and proprietary. This comparison was done against a leading proprietary ESB, the proprietary version of an Open Source ESB, Apache Service Mix 3.2.1 and Mule Community Edition 2.0.1 (Mule CE). We cannot disclose the names of these proprietary ESB's cause they have a clause in there License saying that "Thou shalt not publish any performance results against us".
The results were pretty impressive. The WSO2 ESB outperformed all open source alternatives and it also outperformed the proprietary version of an Open Source ESB. Now what does that mean? The WSO2 ESB is the fastest open source ESB around (And thats with no specific performance tuning, Expect better results in the time to come.). The WSO2 Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) also displayed excellent stability on all scenarios.
Another interesting observation is that 1% of all requests sent to Mule CE 2.0.1 failing. Now who would want to use such a product in a production environment?
There are many things that come in to play when deciding on which ESB to go with. Some of them are Performance, Licensing, Usability, Stability... etc. WSO2 has always been at the forefront when it comes to benchmarking ESB performance. You can find previous performance comparisons here and here. We've always been open as to how we conduct them and has always tried to get help from the relevant projects on how to configure them best.
Asankha the product manager of the WSO2 Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) recently published performance results based on its 1.7 release. The WSO2 Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) was compared with other leading implementations - both open source and proprietary. This comparison was done against a leading proprietary ESB, the proprietary version of an Open Source ESB, Apache Service Mix 3.2.1 and Mule Community Edition 2.0.1 (Mule CE). We cannot disclose the names of these proprietary ESB's cause they have a clause in there License saying that "Thou shalt not publish any performance results against us".
The results were pretty impressive. The WSO2 ESB outperformed all open source alternatives and it also outperformed the proprietary version of an Open Source ESB. Now what does that mean? The WSO2 ESB is the fastest open source ESB around (And thats with no specific performance tuning, Expect better results in the time to come.). The WSO2 Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) also displayed excellent stability on all scenarios.
Another interesting observation is that 1% of all requests sent to Mule CE 2.0.1 failing. Now who would want to use such a product in a production environment?
Friday, June 6, 2008
Paul among the Best
Paul has been listed as one of Infoworld's top 25 CTOs. This is a huge achievement for Paul as well as WSO2 (whom Paul is a co-founder of).
Take a look at what Paul himself has to say about this achievement. I agree with Paul a 100% about what he has to say about the culture at WSO2, "I strongly believe - and long may it continue - that WSO2 doesn't suffer from "Drive By Architecture" syndrome". WSO2 is flat structured, even though there are co-founders, CTOs, Product Managers and so on when it comes to a technical debate each and every member at WSO2 has a role to play. Their thoughts and ideas are taken seriously and is not looked down on.
The team spirit we have at WSO2 is tremendous and it's a pleasure to be a part of WSO2.
Thursday, June 5, 2008
University of Moratuwa ranked first at GSoC 2008
Its really encouraging to see how much open source has cought up in Sri Lanka. A lot if the credit in this regard should go to visionaries like Dr. Sanjiva Weerawarana who initiated the Lanka Software Foundation (LSF) and later on went on to founder WSO2.
A living testimony to the development of open source in Sri Lanka is GSoC 2008. Where Sri Lanka was ranked 9th in the list of GSoc Applications and GSoc Accepted Applications. Not surprisingly a staggering number of applications from Sri Lanka came from the University of Moratuwa which is where I was privileged to have had my Higher education at. The University of Moratuwa ranked 1st in both the number of Applicants and number of accepted applications.
A living testimony to the development of open source in Sri Lanka is GSoC 2008. Where Sri Lanka was ranked 9th in the list of GSoc Applications and GSoc Accepted Applications. Not surprisingly a staggering number of applications from Sri Lanka came from the University of Moratuwa which is where I was privileged to have had my Higher education at. The University of Moratuwa ranked 1st in both the number of Applicants and number of accepted applications.
Thursday, May 8, 2008
Webinar - Introducing the WSO2 Mashup Server
If you've already heard that the WSO2 Mashup Server is cool then you might want to learn more about it. What better way than to attend a free webinar which will be on the 13th of may at 9.00 A.M PST. This one hour webinar will be conducted by Jonathan Marsh the Director of Mashup Technologies at WSO2. This Webinar will give you an introduction into the WSO2 Mashup Server and will also introduce the concept of mashups in general. You can register for this introductory Webinar at https://wso2.on.intercall.com/confmgr/event_register.jsp?eventId=65382.
Sunday, May 4, 2008
WSO2 is COOL indeed!
WSO2 the open source middleware company has been picked as one of 5 "Cool Vendors in Web Technologies, 2008" by Gartner. This Gartner report which requires payment/subscription can be found at http://www.gartner.com/DisplayDocument?ref=g_search&id=650512.
The report highlights the WSO2 Mashup Server as their preferred product for its positioning of server-side JavaScript. If you havent heard of the WSO2 Mashup Server already please visit the project home page to get more details. You can also try out our hosted instance of the Mashup server at http://mooshup.com. Mind you the Mashup Server (and all products released by WSO2) are released under Apache Licence V2. Hence it does not take anything from you to download the product and try it out yourself.
Whats even more interesting is the WSO2 is the only company in that list that's outside California. Yes we do have an office in Mountain View (Just getting it together) but we mainly operate out of Colombo, Sri Lanka.
The report highlights the WSO2 Mashup Server as their preferred product for its positioning of server-side JavaScript. If you havent heard of the WSO2 Mashup Server already please visit the project home page to get more details. You can also try out our hosted instance of the Mashup server at http://mooshup.com. Mind you the Mashup Server (and all products released by WSO2) are released under Apache Licence V2. Hence it does not take anything from you to download the product and try it out yourself.
Whats even more interesting is the WSO2 is the only company in that list that's outside California. Yes we do have an office in Mountain View (Just getting it together) but we mainly operate out of Colombo, Sri Lanka.
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