While Cape Clear has done a “remarkable” job upgrading the standards support for Cape Clear 6, ZapThink analyst Jason Bloomberg questioned the company’s decision to describe its technology as an ESB.

“Unlike offerings from ESB vendors like Sonic Software, Cape Clear’s ESB doesn’t come with a messaging infrastructure, instead relying upon a customer’s existing infrastructure,” Bloomberg told internetnews.com. “Therefore, Cape Clear 6 is really more similar to Blue Titan’s fabric approach than to other ESBs on the market. But unlike Blue Titan, Cape Clear doesn’t offer enterprise-level scalability out of the box, either.”

“Instead, Cape Clear 6 can be installed in a J2EE application server, which would then provide scalability, preventing Cape Clear 6 from being a true stand-alone ESB,” he continued.

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