While far from pervasive, the technology is attracting interest among customers and the release of open source products could help to further its adoption, said Ron Schmelzer, an analyst at ZapThink LLC in Waltham, Massachusetts. IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, BEA Systems Inc. and other large vendors all support some BPEL capabilities in their server software.

“If you want to build a truly distributed business process, i.e. one where you’re not fully in control of all the applications, because they’re spread across more than one company or across different divisions in a company, then you basically need to make sure you have BPEL everywhere,” he said.

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