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August 31, 2006

Enterprise OS X

Reading an article today from Tom Yager called Linux will get buried got me thinking again about OS X in the enterprise.

A couple years ago I worked with some folks at Apple to get Orbacus ported to Apple OS X. Apple were kind enough to lend us a nice box to do the port. I was naiive enough to think back then that Apple understood their Apple Enterprise move with Xserve and that the market was beginning to understand the value of OS X. Well even if they did or not the iPod, which had lready been around for a couple of years, became an even bigger success and I guess Enterprise Apple became a lesser priority.

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January 09, 2006

Open Source ESB for Mac OS X

I wasn't explicit it my last post because I didn't want to detract from my main topic of RSS for WSDL discovery. But you should have noticed that I performed this demo on my Apple Powerbook.

So I thought I'd be more explicit in this post. ObjectWeb's Celtix open source Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) runs on Mac OS X. IONA Technologies is the main sponsor of Celtix and invests several full-time developers to the project.

The demo I described in my last post was developed and tested on Powerbook G4 with OS X version 10.4.3.

Now I'm just waiting on Artix to be ported. Soon perhaps.