For Application Development & Program Management Professionals (Length: 19 pages)

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Service-oriented architecture (SOA) is hot. And as today's primary entry point for SOA, the emerging enterprise service bus (ESB) market is heating up, too. For example, within the last few months two major application platform vendors, BEA Systems and IBM, formally entered the ESB market, legitimizing the concept for many potential buyers. To assess the state of the ESB market and see how the vendors stack up against each other, Forrester evaluated the strengths and weaknesses of top ESB vendors using 100 criteria. The result: The market has two segments, with different leaders in each. The ESB suites segment is led by Cape Clear Software, Fiorano Software, BEA Systems, and Sonic Software, whereas the comprehensive ESB suites segment is led by Oracle, TIBCO, and Sun Microsystems. Included in this report is an interactive vendor comparison tool that provides detailed product evaluations and customizable rankings.

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