It's been a big year for application development industry acquisitions - MySQL, BEA, Borland CodeGear, Cape Clear. It's now the turn of IONA Technologies, which has been acquired by Progress Software for $148.4 million. The acquisition follows a few false starts, including a bid from Software AG.
IONA's legacy CORBA product is widely deployed in the telecommunications and financial industries, although that can not be too attractive to Progress, which already has plenty of legacy products. Perhaps the encouraging results for IONA's new
Service Component Architecture-based product called Artix influenced the acquisition?
Labels: Service Component Architecture, Service Data Objects
The JSF 2.0 Expert Group has released an Early Access Draft of the next version of the specification, and it’s looking ugly. While it would be all to easy to provide a long list of reasons why the new version of the specification is disappointing, it should be sufficient to point to the
comments on The Server Side discussion to understand why CodeFutures will not be added JSF support to FireStorm/DAO.
The simple fact is that not a single FireStorm/DAO user has ever requested JSF support and there are technologies out that that are far more impressive such as Flex and some Ajax implementations.
Labels: FireStorm/DAO, Flex, JSF
