Paul Fremantle on the open source ESB and REST-based SOA

What does the future hold for the open source enterprise service bus (ESB)? Will there be a place for closed source ESBs or some hybrid approach? In the first part of this interview with Rich Seeley, Paul Fremantle, co-founder and vice president of WSO2 Inc., he discusses these issues as well as the Apache Synapse open source ESB, which is the core of the WSO2 ESB product.

For part 2 of this interview, see here.

Paul Fremantle co-founded WSO2 after 9 years at IBM where he created the Web Services Gateway, and led the team that developed and shipped it as part of WebSphere Application Server. Paul also co-created the Web Services Invocation Framework (WSIF), was co-lead of JSR 110: Java APIs for WSDL, which produced WSDL4J, and co-chaired the OASIS Web Services Reliable eXchange Technical Committee.

Interview: http://searchsoa.techtarget.com/qna/0,289202,sid26_gci1286466,00.html