Is there a redistributable .NET service bus?

Question

We make software that customers install themselves on their own servers. We have thousands of customers. I'd like to introduce a service bus into our application.

We need to keep the costs down and have the least possible number of dependencies/prerequisites to simplify our install.

Is there a service bus that is:

• Redistributable
• Cheap - ideally free, or at least isn't priced per install
• Built with .NET
• Doesn't require MSMQ to be installed

Is something like this available or are we stuck building one ourselves?

Answer 1

There is a Server equivalent available for Windows Azure Service Bus - which offers almost all messaging capabilities of Windows Azure Service Bus and is FREE.

• This is a Standalone product with very few dependencies (Sql Server 2012 being one of them though)
• To install this - first you will need to install WEB Platform Installer (something like wget for linux) and then Search for 'bus' for product list - and select "Windows Azure Pack: Service Bus Server 1.1"

HTH, Sree