Seems like David Rosenberg over at CNET doesn’t like me. David is a CNET blogger and CEO of MuleSource, a commercial open source company. Although I won’t respond to his silly personal attacks, I will correct facts from his blog. We don’t use any open source code at all. None. We don’t bundle it. We don’t compile it in. We don’t produce DLLs to interact with it. There is nothing open source about our code. We sell 100% proprietary, internally developed network management software.
We simply provide our paying end customers the ability to view their applications inside our dashboard – whether it’s commercial (i.e., Oracle, SAP, Salesforce.com etc) or open source (i.e., Nagios, Cacti, MRTG etc). You can view any browser-based application inside our dashboard. In the coming months we will release an SDK and APIs to allow third parties to integrate into our product, similar to many commercial applications. It’s to make life easier for our customers and community of end user IT departments.
We believe the hybrid commercial open source model is fundamentally flawed. If you read our position paper, you will see that we are huge supporters of the open source community and open source software generally. The details are in the paper. I am more than happy to debate David anytime he wants on the subject.
Steve
Ps. David inadvertently used the wrong URL for our position paper on open source. Here it is again.
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