Company Profile: MuleSource

MuleSource
Founded: 2006
Location: San Francisco, CA
Current Employees: 50 (30 in SF)
Funding: $16.5M
VCs: Hummer Winblad, Morgenthaler, Lightspeed

Overview
MuleSource is the leading provider of open source service oriented architecture (SOA)
infrastructure software. Founded by the creators of the Mule project, the world's most
reliable and widely used open source enterprise service bus (ESB) and integration
platform, MuleSource delivers enterprise-class software, support, and services to the
thousands of organizations that have downloaded the open source project worldwide.

Competition
They are the leading opensource player.  Main competition is from proprietary incumbent players and large software companies.

Users
Developers and architects in the IT group of a company.  Variety of industries.  Don't just focus on Fortune 500's of the world. Effectively serve the smaller and mid-market companies. 

Sales
Business model comes from subscriptions that include enterprise class version of the software and additional tooling and support.  Consulting services on top of that.  Sales team with inside/outside model.  Got a start in financial services, but very diverse.  Over 80% of deployments are considered mission critical.

Working environment
Startup culture.  Passionate group of employees.  Believe in the opensource model. Not internally competitive.  International feel with people contributing from all over the world.  Offices in 9 countries.

Hot Job
All sales positions.  Get over 1,000 leads each month.  Infrastructure software experience helpful.  Believe they will be the winner in the SOA space.