Tuesday, 19 January 2010

Mule no longer an Open Source company

While I have said for a long time that Mule was not really an Open Source company - since the real version of their ESB (as opposed to the children's edition sorry Community Edition) is not an Open Source product, the fact was that they continued to promote themselves as an Open Source company.

The latest offering from MuleSoft - MuleMQ - is now just a standard proprietary product, with a 30-day trial and no community project. I guess the rename from MuleSource to MuleSoft was an indicator that they were moving away from Open Source.