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InfoSpace Selects Mule ESB to Help Power Search and e-Commerce Businesses

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^{Published in Science and Technology on Thursday, February 24th 2011 at 9:20 GMT by Market Wire}  

SAN FRANCISCO, CA--(Marketwire - February 24, 2011) - [ MuleSoft ], the provider of web middleware built on leading open source projects Mule ESB and [ Apache Tomcat ], today announced that [ InfoSpace ] Inc. (NASDAQ: [ INSP ]), a leader in the Internet search market, has selected Mule ESB as the enterprise service bus to power its online properties, including its next-generation portal architecture, web search sites, partner distribution sites and specialty e-commerce stores under its Mercantila brand. With Mule [ ESB ], InfoSpace engineers will develop business services that can easily be configured and consumed by multiple applications.

"We were impressed with MuleSoft's highly extensible, open source enterprise services bus and its ability to bridge and integrate our differing platforms simply and efficiently across all of InfoSpace's properties," said Travis McElfresh, chief technology officer at InfoSpace, Inc. "Mule ESB offers a technological solution that we trust and allows InfoSpace's talented team of engineers to focus on further innovation of our search and e-commerce products and services."

InfoSpace's proprietary metasearch technology combines the top results from several of the largest online search engines, providing fast and comprehensive search results. MuleSoft's ESB platform will support InfoSpace's properties, which search sites such as Dogpile®, InfoSpace.com®, MetaCrawler®, WebCrawler®, WebFetch®, and more than 100 distribution partner websites. In addition, the company operates an e-commerce channel that includes a collection of more than 200 specialty retail stores under the Mercantila® brand, and an innovative online search engine optimization tool, WebPosition®.

InfoSpace will first use Mule at Mercantila, its e-commerce subsidiary, where Mule will be deployed in a cloud environment and power integration with InfoSpace's vendors and other business partners. Over time, Mule is expected to be rolled out across other InfoSpace's businesses -- for example, serving as a component of InfoSpace's private-label portal solution for its ISP partners. As InfoSpace continues to grow and enter new businesses, the team plans to leverage Mule's powerful features, including its orchestration capabilities and Mule Cloud Connect, for new products and services that the company will offer in the future.

"In many ways, InfoSpace is representative of the next generation of businesses models -- creating value by forming a network of partners and integrating their data and services, resulting in something much more than the sum of its parts," said Mahau Ma, VP of Marketing for MuleSoft. "We were pleased that Mule has proven to be the ideal platform for InfoSpace's extended business ecosystem and power its portfolio of businesses."

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[ MuleSoft ] is the Web Middleware Company, providing enterprise-class software based on the world's most popular open source application infrastructure products, Mule [ ESB ] and [ Apache Tomcat ]. With [ Mule ] ESB and [ Tcat ] Server, MuleSoft brings an ideal combination of simplicity and power to today's web applications. Its products boast more than 1.5 million downloads and over 2,000 production deployments by leading organizations such as Walmart.com, Nokia, Nestlé, Honeywell and DHL, as well as 85 in the Global 500 and 5 of the world's top 10 banks. MuleSoft is headquartered in San Francisco with offices worldwide.

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