Open-Source Project Aims At Middleware

The open-source community is aiming at another market. The Apache Software Foundation last week launched its Synapse initiative, an open-source effort that seeks to produce a common, standardized way to broker services on a network. If the move results in viable open-source code, it has the potential to challenge several commercial products, such as IBM’s WebSphereMQ, Tibco Software’s Rendezvous, and webMethods’ Fabric.