+1. I recommend using a open source ESB to build a prototype instead of a commercial product. In the initial phase, I think it's better to spend money to buy "time" instead of a software.
That said, >Maybe your boss golfs with the vendor sales rep, or maybe the >powers-that-be are listening to the wrong analyst firm, who knows. >But in any case, you're stuck with that decision, and you're now >expected to implement SOA with it. How true. :) H.Ozawa --- In [email protected], Gervas Douglas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > So, you've been following ZapThink long enough to know that beginning a > Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) project by purchasing an Enterprise > Service Bus (ESB) is starting at the wrong end of the initiative. > Purchasing any technology, especially an ESB, at the beginning of an > architecture project is a recipe for failure, you've been telling anyone > who'll listen. But for whatever reason, your organization didn't pay > attention to you, and now they've dropped a bundle on an ESB.
