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What is the Paremus Enterprise Component Marketplace? |
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The Paremus Enterprise Component Marketplace (ECM) provides a structure for promoting 3rd Party OSGi™ software components that are certified by Paremus for use with the Infiniflow Service Fabric. In addition ECM membership provides the option of distribution and/or support for these components by Paremus. |
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Why is an ECM necessary? |
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The emerging trend towards the dynamic assembly of sophisticated composite business services from a collection of reusable 'hot pluggable' in-house or 3rd party OSGi-compliant software components promise to revolutionize the development of business systems. The Paremus ECM simplifies this process for Infiniflow Service Fabric customers, by certifying the components as being fit for purpose. In addition, the open source community (and also commercial software vendors) can optionally use Paremus to offer enterprise-class production support and as a marketing and distribution channel for their components. |
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What is Paremus' role in this ECM? |
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Paremus offers the industry's first ECM to encourage development of OSGi-based enterprise components for the Infiniflow Service Fabric. Paremus is also looking to provide a structure to offer open source individuals or groups with the opportunity to generate financial reward for their efforts. |
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How does the Paremus ECM work with the codeCauldron community? |
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The opportunity is there for the codeCauldron community to take advantage of the ECM to promote, distribute and offer support for their appropriate open source component projects. End user customers will be able to license codeCauldron-compliant components directly from these developers or other sources but many developers may choose to use the Paremus ECM for marketing, commercial distribution and support of their components. |
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Will non-codeCauldron, proprietary enterprise components be offered by the Paremus ECM? |
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Yes, as long as the OSGi component is certified by Paremus as being Infiniflow Service Fabric compliant, and the supplier works within the ECM business framework, the component can be distributed and supported by the Paremus ECM. |
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What does the Paremus ECM offer component developers? |
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As a marketplace, the Paremus ECM offers a convenient location to match purchaser requirements with supplier offerings. Developers will benefit from a larger market than they might be able to create themselves while leveraging the marketing and support capabilities offered by Paremus. The ECM allows developers to focus on enhancing their technology or developing new enterprise components.
Component developers who choose to offer a commercial license for their components and distribute via the Paremus ECM will share license and support revenues with Paremus. The majority of license revenue will go to the component developer. Support revenues will be shared based on the amount of second-level support offered by the developer. Developers may also choose to become associates with Paremus' Professional Services organization to provide component-specific or distributed computing consulting services. |
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What does the Paremus ECM offer end user customers? |
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The Paremus ECM offers end user customers a central marketplace for acquiring licenses and enterprise-class product support for components that are Infiniflow Service Fabric certified. For fully certified and supported components Paremus offers a single point of contact for all commercial matters and technical support for all ECM-certified components. Customer feedback will be used by Paremus and the codeCauldron community as guidance for enhancing existing components and developing new components. Customers may also directly sponsor new component projects on codeCauldron to meet their business needs. |
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Isn't the ECM similar to SpikeSource or SourceLabs? |
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Not really. While there are some similarities, the Paremus ECM model differs in several important respects. The most important difference is that Paremus is absolutely committed to a revenue-sharing model based on 'shared success, shared rewards'. Paremus' success is tightly aligned with the success of its component partners. From a technology perspective, unlike the rigid, 'stack-based' conventional middleware solutions offered by SpikeSource and SourceLabs, Paremus is working with the codeCauldron community to continue developing the advanced, adaptive distributed component platform, Newton, that enables service-based enterprise applications to architected, deployed and managed. |
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Does my software have to offer a commercial license to be offered as a supported ECM component? |
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No, the license choice is made by the component developer. For non-commercial licenses such as the GPL, Paremus will offer professional product support but not collect license revenue. Support revenues will be shared based on involvement by the component developer in delivering second-level support. |
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What is the process for submitting components for ECM certification? |
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Paremus offers a program to allow developers to submit their components for ECM certification. Paremus engineers will rigorously test components for reliability, performance and compliance with the OSGi component model. For further details on the certification program please contact us at ecm@paremus.com. |
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