Originally posted by zeeblebot
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downtime#Cost
Cost
Business Average US$ cost per hour due to network outage
Brokerage Operations $5.45 Million
Credit Card Authorisations $2.5 Million
ATM Fees $14,000
Tele Ticket Sales $69,000
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ServiceMix
Apache ServiceMix is an enterprise class open source distributed enterprise service bus (ESB) and service-oriented architecture (SOA) toolkit. It was built from the ground up on the semantics and APIs of the Java Business Integration (JBI) specification JSR 208 and released under the Apache License. ServiceMix is lightweight and easily embeddable, has integrated Spring support and can be run at the edge of the network (inside a client or server), as a standalone ESB provider or as a service within another ESB. You can use ServiceMix in Java SE or a Java EE application server. ServiceMix uses ActiveMQ to provide remoting, clustering, reliability and distributed failover.
Characteristics of an ESB include:
Federation,clustering and container provided failover
Hot deployment and lifecycle management of business objects
True vendor independence by licence compliance with the the JBI specification
It was made an official Apache project by the ASF Board of Directors on September 19, 2007[1].