Sonic ESB 7.6 hits General Availability
Sonic ESB 7.6 hits General Availability
Month Date, 2008: Progress Software Corporation has announced the general availability of Sonic ESB 7.6.
The Progress ESB or Enterprise Service Bus is an alternative to middleware stacks which assists in the management of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and can also connect to remote sites to provide continuous availability.
Progress believes that Sonic ESB 7.5 allows developers to create service orchestrations with ‘top down’ functionality. The ESB also features embedded prototype services that allow the building and testing of services prior to completion.
"We believe the release of Sonic ESB 7.6 most certainly hits upon all of the requirements outlined by Gartner from its ease of use to its feature-rich functionality. In addition to its financial strength and stability needed for long-term customer and product support, Progress Software offers customers a portfolio of best-in-class SOA infrastructure products that supports their multi-vendor SOA environments,” said David White, Sonic Product Marketing Manager, Progress Software.
According to Gartner’s ‘Cycle for Application Infrastructure Middleware, Platforms and Architecture 2007’ report, "the SOA and integration market is dynamic, with a relatively high rate of mergers and acquisitions. Therefore, companies buying an ESB product or another SOA middleware infrastructure product that contains an ESB product should consider the product viability and vendor viability, as well as the ease of development, standards compliance, quality of local support, administrative tools and feature richness,” said Gartner analysts Roy Schulte, Jess Thompson and Kimihikio Iijim.