Thanks! On 2/16/06, James Strachan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Great stuff Ismael! > > James > > On 15 Feb 2006, at 22:07, Ismael Ghalimi wrote: > > > Good afternoon, > > > > My name is Ismael Ghalimi, and I am the CEO of Intalio. Our company > > would be > > interested in participating to the Ode project through a donation > > of the PXE > > BPEL 2.0 engine and the dedication of development resources to the > > project. > > The PXE BPEL 2.0 engine is currently licensed under the CPL open > > source > > license, and has been integrated into third-party products/projects > > such as > > Sun's Java Studio Enterprise and LogicBlaze's ServiceMix. > > > > We understand that multiple implementations of BPEL might be > > contributed to > > the project, and are willing to support the one that will be > > selected by the > > Ode community. We believe that Apache is the right community for the > > development of a solid implementation of the latest BPEL > > specification, and > > our goal is to participate to this project as actively as we can, > > so that > > the community at large could benefit from it. Ideally, we would > > like to > > contribute to the development of a BPEL engine that could be > > deployed on top > > of any J2EE application server, integrated with any ESB, and > > support the > > most current version of the BPEL specification. > > > > Alongside our donation of the PXE BPEL 2.0 engine, we are also > > willing to > > contribute an AJAX-powered management console for the BPEL engine > > and an > > XForms-based workflow engine that implements the concepts of the > > BPEL4People > > proposal from IBM and SAP, without relying on any extension of the > > BPEL > > specification. We believe that the BPEL management console should > > become > > part of the Ode project, while the BPEL4People workflow engine > > could either > > become part of the Ode project, or be developed through a separate > > project. > > > > Additionally, the following people would participate to the project: > > > > * Assaf Arkin [EMAIL PROTECTED], co-author of the BPEL specification > > * Alex Boisvert [EMAIL PROTECTED], PXE Developer > > * Jacques-Alexandre Gerber [EMAIL PROTECTED], BPEL4People Developer > > * Holger Hoffstaette [EMAIL PROTECTED], PXE Developer > > * Iwan Memruk [EMAIL PROTECTED], BPEL4People Developer > > * Maciej Szefler [EMAIL PROTECTED], PXE Chief Architect > > * Matthieu Riou [EMAIL PROTECTED], Agila + PXE Developer > > * Nazar Stasiv [EMAIL PROTECTED] Console developer > > * Olexandr Zakordonskyy [EMAIL PROTECTED], PXE & Console developer > > * Oleg Zenzin [EMAIL PROTECTED], BPEL4People Developer > > > > Beyond our open source work on PXE, Intalio has developed a good > > experience > > with Open Source projects in general and the Apache community in > > particular. > > For example, we were the original developers for OpenEJB, which > > served as > > one of the building blocks for Geronimo. We also developed the > > original > > codebase for Slide and donated OpenXML to the Xerces project, > > alongside > > IBM's donation of XML4J. We also developed the Castor, OpenJMS and > > OpenORB > > projects under Apache license. These projects are now being > > developed by > > communities such as CodeHaus or ObjectWeb. > > > > Today, we wish to share our experience and resources with the Apache > > community, and look forward to a very successful and exciting project. > > > > Best regards > > -- > > Ismael Chang Ghalimi, CEO > > Intalio, The Open Source BPMS Company > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.intalio.com > > weblog.itredux.com > > > James > ------- > http://radio.weblogs.com/0112098/ > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
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