Cape Clear 6.5 Extends ESB & SOA Leadership for the Enterprise. Mission-critical deployments are simplified through new unified development tools, standards-based security, and advanced clustering capabilities. Despite the promises of vendors, for too long SOA applications have achieved nothing more than "business as usual" ever more expensive IT systems that seldom meet an organisation's strategic goals. Cape Clear Software recently cited as a leader in the Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) category by Forrester Research -- is to change this forever with the launch of Cape Clear 6.5.

Cape Clear 6.5 provides full support for mission-critical enterprise wide service deployments and increased ease-of-use through an Eclipse-based development environment, expanded security compliance through open standards, and new capabilities to deliver enterprise-level qualities of service including failover and debugging.

"One of the early innovators in the ESB market, Cape Clear has grown its offering to a broad suite by adding service orchestration and some management features, and now has one of the deepest implementations of the Web services stack available," states Mike Gilpin, VP, Research Director at Forrester Research in the November 2005 Forrester Wave: Enterprise Service Bus, Q4 2005.

Paul Fletcher, Chief Architect at MessageLabs, a Cape Clear user, added, "In contrast to conventional and proprietary ESB products, Cape Clear's integrated suite is focused solely on simplifying the task of building an SOA. As a user this means you are not forced into buying a product with surplus capabilities that then requires a team of consultants to integrate. Implementations should be completed in a fraction of the time and cost of alternative approaches and are aligned directly with our business strategy."