Jason Bloomberg, senior analyst, ZapThink, LLC, agreed JBoss is making the open source business model work but said it will take more than that to reach the SOA goal.

“The open source business model of selling support and other services can be a challenging way to build a business, but JBoss is clearly one of the success stories,” he said. “The rising tide of commodity products heralded by open source is putting pressure on the commercial vendors to continue to innovate in order to provide value above and beyond what open source can do.”

However, Bloomberg curbs the vendor enthusiasm for SOA software. “No collection of software — either open source or commercial — will give you SOA,” the analyst said. “SOA is architecture, which is a set of best practices and the discipline to follow them.”

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