Linxter has released an open source Microsoft SQL Server integration service, intended to illustrate the benefits of system integration using cloud services instead of web services.
According to Linxter, with the Microsoft SQL integration service, database administrators and system integrators can use their existing .NET skills to connect distributed applications and integrate distributed systems with their SQL server, without building or exposing web services.
The company claims that, with the integration service’s open source code and its plug and play communication plumbing, the technical barrier to entry is lowered for developers who want to create programs that can exchange data with their database server. It allows developers to enhance the source code themselves.
Reportedly, the cloud services built with Linxter are firewall friendly and provide well-governed asynchronous data exchange. A cloud messaging platform, Linxter eliminates common technical barriers such as message polling, transactional queues, dynamic endpoint reconfiguration, encryption and authentication, internet connection retries, non-repudiation and file chunking.
