What is Artix and what does it do?

Question

There are Enterprise Service Busses Cape Clear, Sonic, and Inona's Artix. It has a cheaper "per CPU" price than the other two, but what does it do and how well does it do it?

Answer 1

Answer would be too lengthy for proper discussion here, but if Reuters Financial recently chose IONA's Artix it must be an option worthy of consideration.

It's enterprise middleware:
http://www.iona.com/products/artix/welcome.htm