[ Thanks to Jason
Greenwood for this link. ]
“Companies have begun to use open source integration solutions
in their critical projects. When compared with commercial
integration solutions, the feature coverage of these open source
tools remains poor. This is not surprising: Established standards
are important as a platform for open source development, but
standards bodies have yet to establish many standards in this
area–particularly for the most advanced features. Despite this,
open source integration solutions represent a viable alternative to
commercial integration products for ‘follower’ enterprises. To move
forward, Forrester believes that large organizations–particularly
government and large enterprises–will increasingly need to invest
and participate in open source committees to drive requirements and
interoperability standards and fund the development of more capable
and coherent open source integration solutions…”