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On 25 June 2008 it was announced that IONA would be acquired by ] for about $162 million, which occurred shortly thereafter.<ref> Wed, 25 June 2008</ref> | On 25 June 2008 it was announced that IONA would be acquired by ] for about $162 million, which occurred shortly thereafter.<ref> Wed, 25 June 2008</ref> | ||
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Traded as | Nasdaq: IONA |
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Industry | Computer software Consulting IT Services |
Founded | 1991 |
Defunct | 2008 (2008) |
Fate | Acquired |
Headquarters | Dublin, Ireland |
Products | IONA Artix, Fuse ESB, Orbix, Orbacus |
Website | iona.com |
IONA Technologies was an Irish software company. It was founded in 1991.
The company began life as a campus company in Trinity College, Dublin and maintained headquarters in Dublin, Boston and Tokyo. The company specialized in distributed service-oriented architecture (SOA) technology. IONA products connect systems and applications by creating a network of services without requiring a centralized server or creating an information technology project.
History
On 25 June 2008 it was announced that IONA would be acquired by Progress Software for about $162 million, which occurred shortly thereafter.
On 24 December 2012 Progress Software sold the IONA-related Orbix, Orbacus and Artix software product lines to Micro Focus International plc for $15 million.
The open-source group was later spun out into its own entity, FuseSource Corp, which was acquired by Red Hat in 2012. This group consisted of individuals and technologies involved in the various open-source projects and communities, including those that joined as part of the acquisition of LogicBlaze.
IONA and standards
IONA was involved in the development of standards that are relevant to large-scale IT integration. IONA employs the Web service, Java, TMF and Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) families of standards in their products, and was involved in the following standards bodies:
- World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
- Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS)
- Object Management Group (OMG)
- Telecommunications Management Forum (TMF)
- Web Services Interoperability (WS-I)
- Microsoft/IBM Web Services Workshop Process
- Open Service-Oriented Architecture's Service component architecture (SCA)
- Open Services Gateway initiative (OSGi) Alliance
IONA and open source
IONA promoted both open-source and commercially licensed software, participated in several open source initiatives, and acquired LogicBlaze. IONA was involved in the following open-source projects, and offered enterprise versions of the projects that are tested, certified and supported. These became part of FuseSource Corp., now within Red Hat .
- Apache CXF project
- Apache ActiveMQ project
- Apache ServiceMix project
- Apache Camel project
- SOA Tooling Platform (STP) project at the Eclipse Foundation
IONA products
IONA's initial integration products were built using the CORBA standard, and more recent products were built using Web services standards.
IONA's products include
- IONA Artix – advanced SOA infrastructure suite. Components include:
- Artix ESB (Enterprise Service Bus)
- Artix Registry/Repository
- Artix Orchestration
- Artix Mainframe
- Artix Connect for WCF
- Artix Data Services (formally Century 24's Integration Objects (IO). C24 was acquired by IONA in March 2007. In April 2011 C24 Technologies Limited acquired the product and brand from Progress Software and relaunched the product as C24iO.)
- FUSE – IONA's enterprise version of open source projects that include testing and professional services. Components include:
- FUSE ESB – enterprise version of Apache ServiceMix
- FUSE Message Broker – enterprise version of Apache ActiveMQ
- FUSE Services Framework – enterprise version of Apache CXF
- FUSE Mediation Router – enterprise version of Apache Camel
- Orbix – enterprise CORBA solution
- Orbacus – embeddable C++ CORBA ORB
- Professional services – training, consulting, and support
Notes
- Irish Independent Archived 27 April 2016 at the Wayback Machine Thu, 24 Jan 2002
- eWeek Wed, 25 June 2008
- Micro Focus International plc Archived 4 November 2013 at the Wayback Machine 2012-12-24
- eWeek 10 April 2007
- ebizQ 9 July 2007
- Archived 15 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine"C24 Integration Objects" , 6 April 2011
External links
- Three-part history of Iona Technologies and its company culture
- Official Micro Focus website of IONA-related products Orbix, Artix, and Orbacus
- IONA's open source community
- Enterprise ServiceMix
- Enterprise ActiveMQ
- Enterprise CXF
- Enterprise Camel
- ServiceMix project at Apache
- CXF project at Apache
- ActiveMQ project at Apache
- Camel project at Apache
- SOA Tools Platform (STP) project at Eclipse Foundation
- Semantic Technology Related News about IONA Technologies