Ronald Schmelzer, senior analyst with ZapThink LLC in Waltham, Mass., said that of the four products in the Artix platform, he sees the most promise in Artix Encompass, which he called “the least EAI-like” because of its end-point integration.

Schmelzer has predicted the demise of the middleware market because it is becoming “less and less viable” due to heavy infrastructure requirements such as messaging and because of the costs of ongoing maintenance.

A Web service product like Encompass, he said, eliminates the need for such infrastructure and helps companies reuse and consolidate applications they’ve already paid for. Encompass offers support for CORBA- and C -based Web services.

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