Coridan, a leading provider of next-generation messaging middleware, will showcase its MantaRay product at the Open Source Business Conference, which opens today at the Westin St. Regis Conference Center in San Francisco. Coridan was selected to present at the conference's Startup Showcase as one of the most promising open source startups.

Broker-based messaging middleware was introduced in order to simplify and standardize the way applications communicate with each other. Today, however, IT is quickly moving from a world of monolithic architectures to a world of widely divergent technologies, platforms and integration suites where there are huge amounts of data stored inside enterprise applications, numerous decoupled components, and Service Oriented Architectures (SOA).

Clearly, a new approach is required to take messaging middleware, the foundation for application integration, events and services, to the next level. To achieve this goal, Coridan's MantaRay technology brings the world of Kaaza and Skype, the proven peer-to-peer networks, to applications and SOA. It does so by deploying optimized messaging structures, such as persistency and durability, on peer-to-peer architecture, to create an extremely lightweight product that uses virtual brokers instead of centralized ones.