IONA Technologies
| Type | Public (NASDAQ: IONA) |
|---|---|
| Industry | Computer software Consulting IT Services |
| Founded | 1991 |
| Headquarters | Dublin, Ireland |
| Products | IONA Artix, FuseSource Corp., Orbix, Orbacus |
| Website | iona.com |
IONA Technologies (NASDAQ: IONA) was an Irish software company. It was founded in 1991.
The company began life as a campus company in Trinity College, Dublin[1][2] and maintains headquarters in Dublin, Boston and Tokyo.
The company specializes in distributed service-oriented architecture (SOA) infrastructure. IONA products connect systems and applications by creating a network of services without requiring a centralized server or creating an IT stack.
On June 25, 2008 it was announced that IONA would be acquired by Progress Software for about $162 million, which occurred shortly thereafter.[3]
The open source group was later spun out into its own entity FuseSource Corp.. 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.
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[edit] 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 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
[edit] IONA and Open Source
IONA promoted both open source and commercially licensed software, participated in several open source initiatives and acquired LogicBlaze.[4] IONA was involved in the following open source projects, and offered enterprise versions of the projects that are tested, certified and supported.[5] These have since become part of the FuseSource Corp. entity.
- Apache CXF project
- Apache ActiveMQ project
- Apache ServiceMix project
- Apache Camel project
- SOA Tooling Platform (STP) project at the Eclipse Foundation
[edit] 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)
- 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
[edit] Notes
- ^ Campus Companies Programme Irish Scientist 1999
- ^ Irish Independent Thu, Jan 24 2002
- ^ eWeek Wed, June 25, 2008
- ^ eWeek April 10, 2007
- ^ ebizQ July 9, 2007
[edit] External links
- Official IONA website
- 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
