On 1/23/07, Viraf Bankwalla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Could someone please clarify how ode differs from pxe. My understanding was that the key difference between the opensource version and product offered by intalio was that support for application servers and databases. I am begining to wonder if this is a correct understanding. Hoping someone could help clarify.
Hi Viraf, PXE no longer exists; the codebase has been donated to Apache and merged into Ode. The product offered by Intalio is a complete business process management suite, including a BPEL engine (powered by Apache Ode), workflow and security services, a management console, connectors and design-time tools such as an Eclipse-based BPMN diagram modeler. So I guess it's like comparing the Linux kernel versus an actual distribution (e.g. Red Hat), the differences go beyond the deployment environment. The important point here is that the code from Apache Ode is already used commercially with many happy users and that a growing number of people get interested in BPEL as a way to develop composite applications. This generates more interest for the Apache Ode project and we hope even more people will get involved in building and improving the best open-source BPEL engine there is! regards, alex
