jitterbit

Business integration software has long been the exclusive playground of proprietary closed source vendors.

But a new open source startup called Jitterbit is hoping to change the landscape a bit with its newly released Jitterbit 1.0 platform.

Jitterbit's self-named business integration software enables users, on either Windows or Linux, to integrate and connect data from diverse applications, whether they're CRM, ERP, data warehouse or other data stores.

The data can be connected via XML or any number of other different protocols, including SOAP, ODBC , HTTP and FTP.

The Business Integration software space is full of large enterprise vendors such as IBM, webMethods, Tibco and even Microsoft. Jitterbit isn't necessarily going after the large enterprises though.