Forrester Research Names WSO2 As a Leader in Enterprise Service Business

Forrester Research (News - Alert), in its “The Forrester Wave: Enterprise Service Bus, Q2 2011 report,” has recognized WSO2 as a leader in enterprise service business. Published on April 25, 2011, the report evaluated both commercial and open source EDB vendors and gave WSO2 a score of 4.47 out of a possible 5.00 points for “current offering,” based on Forrester’s evaluation of the 100 percent open source WSO2 Enterprise Service Bus (WSO2 ESB) 3.0. WSO2 met 109 criterions on which evaluation was based.

The Forrester ESB Wave said: “The broad capabilities ESB products provide have made them a popular choice for meeting general integration needs and supporting efforts to implement a service-oriented architecture.” The report further notes that, “The increasing capability of both commercial and open source ESBs and their lower price points compared with comprehensive integration solutions (CISes) will continue to drive high interest in these products from organizations that are modernizing their application development infrastructure.”

“We designed our WSO2 ESB with the idea that a lean, adaptive architecture could provide the high performance and flexibility that enterprises need, and today we have customer implementations where WSO2 ESBs are reliably running 800 million-plus messages per day,” said Paul Fremantle, WSO2 co-founder and CTO and vice president of the Apache Software Foundation Synapse Project, in a statement. “We are excited to be identified by Forrester as a leader in its latest ESB Wave report. It further validates our commitment to reinventing middleware around the next generation of open source standards to meet enterprises’ real-world demands.”

WSO2 delivers the only complete open source enterprise SOA middleware stack purpose-built as an integrated platform to support today’s enterprise environments—internally and in the cloud.

The company recently launched the WSO2 Application Server 4.0 (formerly WSO2 Web Services Application Server). Among the new features in Version 4.0 is full support for Apache Tomcat which provides the ability to run Web applications and Web services on the same server, and manage them through a unified console.

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Edited by Jamie Epstein