I wonder how this affects the relationship between Epicor and Progress? My
guess is that it could make it stronger.
Mark W.
From http://www.sdtimes.com/content/article.aspx?ArticleID=32444
Progress Software to acquire Iona Technologies
By David Worthington
...
The deal with Iona comes on the heels of Progress' buyout of Mindreef, a
firm that focused on quality management and testing tools for SOA. Mindreef
may be best known for its SOAPscope Server.
Iona may be best known for its Artix product line, which includes the Artix
ESB, Artix Connect for WCF (Windows Communication Foundation) and Artix Data
Services, as well as other lines, including its versions of open-source
testing products, sold under the Fuse brand. Iona also brings to the table a
reasonably solid legacy CORBA clientele with its Orbix customers, noted
Bloomberg.
The Artix ESB (enterprise service bus), which is a fork of the open-source
Fuse ESB, a derivative of Apache ServiceMix, has a distributed architecture
that does not rely on a centralized server. Its use of distributed endpoints
allows for incremental adoption and the dynamic configuration of services.
It is contrasted by Progress' Sonic ESB, which takes a more traditional
MQ-based approach. The ESB is built upon Progress' Sonic XQ message queue
technology.
...
"WCF support and .NET integration was one of the most attractive elements of
this acquisition for us; it is a sanctioned offering that adds first class
Microsoft integration to our portfolio," said Vandervoort. Microsoft
provided technical assistance to Iona in the design of Artix Connect for
WCF.
...
guess is that it could make it stronger.
Mark W.
From http://www.sdtimes.com/content/article.aspx?ArticleID=32444
Progress Software to acquire Iona Technologies
By David Worthington
...
The deal with Iona comes on the heels of Progress' buyout of Mindreef, a
firm that focused on quality management and testing tools for SOA. Mindreef
may be best known for its SOAPscope Server.
Iona may be best known for its Artix product line, which includes the Artix
ESB, Artix Connect for WCF (Windows Communication Foundation) and Artix Data
Services, as well as other lines, including its versions of open-source
testing products, sold under the Fuse brand. Iona also brings to the table a
reasonably solid legacy CORBA clientele with its Orbix customers, noted
Bloomberg.
The Artix ESB (enterprise service bus), which is a fork of the open-source
Fuse ESB, a derivative of Apache ServiceMix, has a distributed architecture
that does not rely on a centralized server. Its use of distributed endpoints
allows for incremental adoption and the dynamic configuration of services.
It is contrasted by Progress' Sonic ESB, which takes a more traditional
MQ-based approach. The ESB is built upon Progress' Sonic XQ message queue
technology.
...
"WCF support and .NET integration was one of the most attractive elements of
this acquisition for us; it is a sanctioned offering that adds first class
Microsoft integration to our portfolio," said Vandervoort. Microsoft
provided technical assistance to Iona in the design of Artix Connect for
WCF.
...