The document summarizes ObjectWeb, an open source middleware consortium. It discusses how middleware technologies are becoming commoditized and how open source is a strategy to develop commodity middleware. ObjectWeb aims to reduce software production costs through collaborative engineering and opening source codes. It has grown to include over 60 corporate members and 1600 individual members collaborating on over 80 open source middleware projects.

1. San Francisco, CA, USA - August 9, 2005
ObjectWeb:
Middleware the Open Source Way
Technical superiority and business
opportunities for the digital age
François LETELLIER – INRIA/ObjectWeb
francois.letellier@objectweb.org
© ObjectWeb 2005
www.objectweb.org

2. What’s Middleware Anyway?
WfMc
IBM advertisement Liberty
WebServices BPEL
e-business
e-administration, …
network
« The function of middleware is
to mediate interaction between SyncML
the parts of an application, or Globus CORBA
between applications » Java/J2EE OSGi
XA HTML/XML
www.objectweb.org F.Letellier – 2

3. Commoditization of
Key Enabling Technologies
Commodity Applications
a Definition (Tim O’Reilly)
 Water, Ore, Sugar,
Bolts, Oil, … Middleware
RAM, Microchips, …
 Basic building blocks for
many different purposes Operating
 Sourced by more than System
one producer
 Uniform quality standards Hardware
to which they conform
Components
www.objectweb.org
Key Enabling Tech. Free Competition Open Standards3
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4. Commodity Software:
Free as in Free Beer
$ Demand Manufacturing
$ Software
Demand
Cost
Cost
Mkt size Quantity Mkt size Quantity
Commodity Market The Software Exception
 Significant value (huge demand)
 Unbiased, close to “perfect  High cost for the first copy (entry
competition” barrier)
 Marginal production cost  Zero!
 Shrunk margins are a  Unlimited supply
competitive advantage
 Nash equilibrium Radical drift to price  0
E.g.: sf.net – June 30, 2005 – Registered Projects: 102,362 …
www.objectweb.org F.Letellier – 4

5. FOSS: a Collective Strategy to
Develop Commodity Middleware
Because sooner or later, publishers of proprietary
software have to compete against vendors of (almost)
free substitutes
Because software production costs can be reduced
through collaborative engineering
Because opening the source code is the best way to
maximize the potential of collaboration
And because collaborating when competing is pointless
is the best way to keep innovating
www.objectweb.org F.Letellier – 5

6. 1st International Consortium
for Open Source Middleware
2 005
J uly
60+ Corporate Members
1600+ Individual Members
3 continents, 75+ countries
YANGFANSOFT
www.objectweb.org F.Letellier – 6

7. Organization
Governance, Objectives
Transparent Governance
 Strategy: 12 board members
 Technical vision: college of architects
• Co-founded ’02 by Bull, INRIA, France Télécom R&D
 Operations: executive committee
• Hosted by INRIA (cf W3C)
• Sponsored by Together Teamlösungen
 Driven by the community of members
A Heavyweight Open Source Player
Business neutral and not for profit: Users
ObjectWeb does not sell software nor services Contributors
Wide roster of industry grade projects:
Needs
80+ projects, 30 solutions Committers
Compliance with open standards
(W3C, OMG, JCP, OSGi, …) Code
Management
F/OSS
License
Code source
Expertise & network: +3000 developers, 75 countries Version Management System
www.objectweb.org F.Letellier – 7

8. Third Generation
of Free/Open Source Software
Cha lleng ers Lead ers
ASSOCIATIONS OF EAS “Magic Quadrant”
Source: Gartner Research (April 2005)
COMPANIES
IBM J2EE
BEA J2EE
IBM T PM
Ora cle
SAP Micr osoft
BEA TPM
JBoss
Ab ility
ASSOCIATIONS OF
to Tma x TPM
Fujitsu Siemens TPM
Execute Sun Fujitsu
Pra mati NEC
Borland Software Sybase Macr omedia
Hita chi
IO NA
Ir onfl are Tmax J2EE
INDIVIDUALS
Caucho Trifork Kabira Technologies
Kingdee O jectWeb
b Zend Technolo gies
No vell
App istry
Desider ata Software Paremus
A of Apr il 2005
s
Nich e Players Visio naries
Co mpleten ess o f Visio n
INDIVIDUALS
BEA = BEA S ystems S n = Sun Microsystems
u
«Consider ObjectWeb when looking for
Fujitsu Siemens = Fujitsu Sie mens Computers Tmax = Tmax Soft
IONA = IONA T echno logies TPM = tr ansact ion-processing monitor
J2EE = Java 2 Platfor m, Enterprise Edition Trifor k = Tr ifor k Technologies
a single source for a comprehensive set
Pramati = Pramati Technologies
of open-source middleware and
development tools».
Yefim Natis, VP Distinguished
From ethical to economical motivations Analyst, Gartner, November 2004
From techno-centric to business-centric
www.objectweb.org F.Letellier – 8

9. By Professionals
For Professionals
Big Companies I nnovative SM Es

Atos O rigin

ADN EOM Technologies

Bull
 ARGIA

Code Lutin

Capgemini 
Cotranet

Dassault Aviation 
e-Care

EDF R&D 
EBM WebSourcing

Engineeering Ingegneria Informatica 
Ecensity Corp .

France Telecom R& D 
EdifiXio

Iona  eMAXX

NEC Soft 
Emic N etworks

Thales 
Erlang -projects

Eteration
 eXo Platform
Public Sector / Academi a 
Experlog

CEA 
Fossil e-commerce

Char les University Prague 
Funambol

CN AF 
InfinitiesSoft Solutions Inc

CNRS 
Librados

French M inistr y of Interior 
Linagora

Groupe des Ecoles des Télécommunications  Lynx

Guangzhou M iddl eware Research Center

Mandriva

MySQL

I3 S (UN SA - CNRS) 
Open W ide

IM AG / LSR  Orbeon Inc

I N RI A 
Red Hat

LIFL/ USTL 
ScalAgent Distributed Technologies

LIP6 
SourceBeat

SUSE LINUX

Together Teamlösungen

XQuark Group
1600 I ndividuals Members  XCalia
www.objectweb.org 
Yangfan soft F.Letellier – 9

10. How Business Models…
…Add Up to an Innovation
Ecosystem
Innovation opportunities for all stakeholders
www.objectweb.org

11. Growth of a Business
Ecosystem: Case Study
HOWL
Business Ecosystem (James F. Moore)
Competition
Complimentar ity
I ndust r y players « breed », live, die
Neogia
LongTeng
T he ecosystem remains
End
users Application Server End users
(1,000s
End users
companies)
www.objectweb.org F.L etell ier – 11

12. FOSS Beefs Up
Innovation Capacity
► Reuse
 Cost containment
Stronger commitment
Innovation capacity
 Contribute through adoption
► Double sourcing
 Negotiation
 Unlimited scalability / hybrid platforms
► Outsourcing
 Contribute open source code to outsource
maintenance and evolution
 Percolation: outsource all which is not a competitive
advantage
► Shared R&D
 Flexible platform for collaborative engineering
www.objectweb.org F.Letellier – 1 2

13. FOSS Business Models
Conservation of “Attractive Profits” (Christensen)
 At any given point in time, not all the value stack is
commoditized
 Innovation happens on the boundary between open
source and proprietary parts
 Transient and permanent windows of opportunity
Business Models (Most Often, a Blend of 2+)
 Innovation Produces OSS
Patronage, Optimization, Dual Licensing, Bait & Hook, Bait &
Switch Emerging Commoditized
 Added Value
Opportunities
Consulting, Subscription
Hosted, Embedded
www.objectweb.org Adoption F.Letellier – 1 3

14. Innovation &Technology
Transfer from Academia
Middleware is Hot
 For pervasive, distributed computing
 For software interoperability
Share R&D Efforts
 Gather real world needs
 Faster technology transfer
ActiveXML
 Complement of activity in standardization bodies Carol
Place of Research in the Business Ecosystem C-JDBC
 Trust and professionalism CLIF
 Virtuous cycle between fundamental research and industrial JORAM
applications Fractal
 Global outreach Rubis
ProActive
www.objectweb.org …
F.Letellier – 1 4

15. Government & Citizenship
Ethical Motivations Economical
Knowledge to the people Motivations
Architecture regulates (Lessig)
Citizen scrutiny « Free as in Free Beer »
China
« Free as in Freedom »
India
Germany Code Public Invitations to Tender
France
Neutrality Base Laws & Regulations
USA
Spain
Japan
Korea « Open Source »
UK Exemplarity Externalities of Free/Open-Source
Brazil Prescription Opportunities for cost containment
Russia Software quality
Adaptability: no de facto regulations
EU
(Local) economical development
etc… Technology independence
Commons for Infrastructures
www.objectweb.org F.Letellier – 1 5

16. ObjectWeb gets
boost from China
research group
Research institute joins
open source middleware
consortium
4
By James Niccolai, IDG News
7 6 Service
6 December 09, 2004
ObjectWeb, the
European open source
middleware consortium,
has added a Chinese
research institute to its
membership in a move
that could help broaden
the use of its software in
China, the groups said
Thursday.
www.objectweb.org F.Letellier – 1 6

17. ObjectWeb Middleware
Industrial Grade Software for All to Use
www.objectweb.org

18. Software You Might Have
Never Heard of…

JOnAS: J2EE Certified Application Server
NO DEMO

eXo Platform: Enterprise Portal & CMS

Sync4j: Synchronization of Mobile Devices

C-JDBC: Clusters of Relational Databases

Celtix: Business Integration

ProActive: Computational Grids

And more…
N.Buonomo, CNAF:
NO CRASH
« The system has been in production for 1
year now. Accessed daily by hundreds of
users from our 123 local offices, it just never
crashed: we did not receive a single incident
report! »
www.objectweb.org F.Letellier – 1 8

19. JOnAS:
Open Source, Industry Grade
J2EE 1.4 Application Server
1/ 2 8, 2 0 0 5 - 7 .3 0 PM
00%tests [ passed ]
1
Scholarship JCP
3 years, 800.000 OW lines
Collaborative development
Companies, academia
High-end open source
J2E E
JOnAS committers
1.4
www.objectweb.org F.Letellier – 1 9

20. Eclipse Web Tools Platform
Top Level Project: J2EE & Web
ObjectWeb Proposal
Endorsed by Eclipse
Tooling for All J2EE, Including JOnAS
M.Milinkovich, June 30, 2005
« I had a interesting conversation with a fellow
who was a huge fan of the Eclipse Web Tools
project. He has been using it since WTP M1 to
build internet banking applications and is very
very happy. Quote: "You have no idea how much I
love your tools." Hats off to WTP! »
www.objectweb.org F.Letellier – 2 0
Eclipse Web Tools Platform kick off

21. Enterprise Service Bus Initiative
Integration & SOA for the Masses
J2EE Packaged .Net Web
Application Application Application Service
JMS JCA Soap-HTTP Soap-HTTP
MOM facilitie s
 Asynchronous communication system
 XML/SOAP m essaging Enterprise
XML transformation services Service
Content -based routing Bus
(ESB)
Development Tools . Platform Managt .
 Deployment
 Monitoring
 ESB Core / JBI – Celtix
 Workflow, BPEL – Bonita, Shark & JaWE, MOBE
 Message Bus – Joram
 J2EE / Web Services – JOnAS
 XML Processing – OPS, XQuark
 Extract-Transform-Load – Enhydra Octopus
www.objectweb.org F.Letellier – 2 1

22. C.N.A.F.
(Family Branch, Social Security)
>100 business 1 year
intelligence apps
No crash
10 M individuals France
10.000 fields
123 local
offices
8 Regional
Computing Centers
www.objectweb.org F.Letellier – 2 2

23. Greco International
GrECo International selected Enhydra's projects
(Enhydra 5.1, Dods, Director, Shark, JaWE) for
an application to administer data for about 20.000
clients, 120.000 insurance contracts and 1.5
million documents
300 employees in Austria, 9 subsidiaries. It is a
mission-critical web application providing
advanced features such as document
management, multilingualism and complex
security.
GrEco decided to extend the system to local
offices in the Czech Republic and Hungary in
2005.
www.objectweb.org F.Letellier – 2 3

24. France Télécom
JOnAS
JOnAS is one of the J2EE
servers recommended by France
Telecom for deployment on
Linux.
JOnAS is used operationally by
more than 20 projects today
About 50 projects being planned
to be operational with JOnAS by
the end of 2005
JOnAS, JORAM
Additionally, a number Research
and Development projects have
been deployed operationally on
top of an M2M platform (Paris-
Dakar, Marathon de Lyon…)
www.objectweb.org F.Letellier – 2 4

25. US Joint Forces Command
Joint Futures Lab (CDCIE Project)
Maximize Benefits of Open Source &
Open Standards
Stimulate industry
Enable Coalition partners the ability to
roll their own interoperable solution
Reduce the cost of collaboration in DoD
Why eXo Platform?
One of the first certified JSR-168 portals
Very flexible layout engine with good
Multinational group layout/page controls
Information Sharing Leapfrogs the commercial portals in its
Solution to support war technology
fighters operating in a Supports server load balancing
coalition environment
www.objectweb.org http://www.dodccrp.org/events/2005/10th/CD/papers/213.pdf2 5
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26. ObjectWeb Today
Community Impact
Size x 2 / year
60 Companies
150,000 V isitors/m
1800 I ndividuals 1000%
1,200,000 D l/y
800%
75 Countr ies 600%
L ocal to Global
250 M ailing-L ists
400%
JOnA S Cer0% tification
200%
7,500 Suscri bers
Eclipse Web ToolsQ1 03 2 03Q3 03Q4 03Q1 04
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www.objectweb.org F.Letellier – 2 6

27. San Francisco, CA, USA - August 9, 2005
Thank you for your attention
Questions
? Le middleware
François LETELLIER – INRIA/ObjectWeb
francois.letellier@objectweb.org partout ?
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© ObjectWeb 2005
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