[servicemix-dev] FW: Briefing: ServiceMix

[McGovern, James F (HTSC, IT)]

Title: Briefing: ServiceMix

FYI. Would be great if users from the ServiceMix community could assist me in helping Gartner understand the value proposition behind open source. Please drop me a note if you have any additional insight... -----Original Message----- From: Schulte,Roy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2006 8:58 AM To: McGovern, James F (HTSC, IT) Cc: servicemix-dev@geronimo.apache.org; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Schulte,Roy Subject: RE: Briefing: ServiceMix Jim   Thanks for your follow up on this issue.   I believe that we at Gartner should treat ServiceMix in exactly the same way that we treat any other ESB product – documenting its strengths, limitations and areas of applicability to the best of our ability.  That means including ServiceMix in all reports and presentations that discuss ESBs, with the same attention as we would apply to IBM WebSphere ESB, Microsoft WCF, Sonic ESB, Cape Clear 6, etc.   To accomplish this, I need to be able to check references from people who are using the software and are in a position to knowledgeably and fairly discuss the product. I will follow up with you (Jim) personally, but I would also ask the following:   1.  If there are other people on this mailing list who have worked with ServiceMix, ideally with a production application but not absolutely necessary given the young age of the software, can you respond directly to me (just send an email reply to this message).  I would like to do a 30 minute conference call to debrief you on your experience.  It is best if I am able to refer to the name of your company as a source, although as a fallback, we can have the discussion on a confidential basis (sometimes it is an onerous task to get approval from your PR folks to have public mention of your use of the software).   2.  If you have a production application that is particularly illuminating as an example of ESB usage and ServiceMix usage, and if you are willing to go public with your work as a case study, let me know that too.  I produce case studies from time to time and I can host a case study guest speaker at the Gartner App Integration and Web Services conference in June if we can find a suitable example.   Regarding the Garther vendor positioning chart (“Quadrant”): We are just beginning work on the 2006 version of this. I would be glad to include ServiceMix if I can get enough information (see above).  Until we do the analysis, I cannot make any predictions about where ServiceMix would appear on the chart.  ObjectWeb, JBOSS and other open source products have appeared on Gartner positioning charts in the past (see enclosed), and JBOSS made it into the leader’s quadrant of this particular example.  We have not have open source ESBs on the “integration backbone” chart (that covers ESBs and Integration Suites) in the past, but frankly, I ascribe this entirely to the young age of the software.  We can’t put something on our chart until it has a real impact on the lives of our clients. I will do everything I can to ensure objective treatment.   Thanks for any help you can provide.   Cheers Roy Schulte Gartner Application Integration and Web Services Conference: 19th  to 21st of June 2006, San Diego. For information see http://www.gartner.com/it/products/events/events.jsp From: McGovern, James F (HTSC, IT) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2006 2:27 PM To: Schulte,Roy Cc: servicemix-dev@geronimo.apache.org; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Briefing: ServiceMix   I wanted to thank you for taking time to explain the Gartner perspective on Enterprise Service Bus. I am of the belief that I have the following action items: 1. I am currently working on getting ServiceMix to be certified on the Azul platform. The notion of it being literally the first ESB that has been certified to run on 384 CPUs is powerful. 2. I will make sure that over the next couple of weeks that several individuals that have deployed ServiceMix to a production environment directly contact you to describe their perspectives and experiences in this space. I am cc:ing the ServiceMix development list on the chance there are users that I may not be aware of. 3. I have been thinking about ServiceMix showing up in the visionary quadrant as intriguing but insufficient. With this thought in mind, I have managed to not only get many of my peers interested in contributing but have talked with architects at other Fortune 100 enterprises including but not limited to: Aetna, JPMorgan Chase, Morgan Stanley, St Jude Medical, Boeing and Verizon to also contribute. They are all game to contribute but under the one condition that if they provide their expertise, they want to see ServiceMix move from a visionary quadrant to the leaders quadrant in a short timeframe. Looking forward to prioritizing the specific tasks they take on with this specific goal in mind. 4. If you have opportunities at upcoming conferences where members of the open source community can share their development experiences with ServiceMix, please do not hesitate to drop the list a note. 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