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 SOA Magazine has published an very good paper by JackBe's by John Crupi and Chris Warner called "
Enterprise Mashups Part I: Bringing SOA to the People".
The abstact is here:
Forrester Research predicts that mashups will be a $682 million industry in the next 5 years. But can you define mashups? Can you describe the value of mashups to an SOA architect or even a business user? Can you outline the relationship between mashups and existing enterprise technology? Knowing the answers to these questions will advance you well down the road to embracing the concepts and techniques behind mashups in your organization.
This three-part series will help you get a head start by discussing the gritty details. In Part 1 we'll define a mashup in the context of the enterprise, contrast it against other common data integration technologies, and outline some of the more important architectural elements. In Part 2 we'll discuss why SOA architects should care about enterprise mashups. Finally, in Part 3 we'll discuss an enterprise architecture that incorporates mashups as part of your SOA-enabled ERP/CRM/SFA/BI and homegrown applications. A PDF version is
here.
Labels: Service Component Architecture, Service Data Objects
