September 1, 2009, 4:00 am
Having secured funding from Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners and Morgenthaler Ventures, MuleSource cofounder Ross Mason turned what was the Mule Project into an open source player on the fast track. Re-invigorated with new CEO Greg Schott when another cofounder, Dave Rosenberg, left the company, MuleSource has been ramping up its business in the wake of a recession that has gutted some proprietary legacy players.
The Mule Project was an open source enterprise service bus (ESB) and integration platform that gained notoriety early on. MuleSource has adapted its product offerings in both the community and enterprise editions in the Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and integration space. Its core business is selling subscriptions for its open source infrastructure software, Mule…
