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What Does Progress' Takeover Mean for Iona s Open Source Strategy?

Posted on June 25, 2008

Carnac the Magnificent has answered the question in the last envelope in the independent middleware market: Progress Software (PRGS) will acquire Iona (IONA). My prediction that it would most likely be another so-called closed source software provider pairing up with an open source provider turned out to be correct. My prediction that it would be IBM (IBM), Sun (JAVA), TIBCO (TIBX), Novell (NOVL), a Telco or a packaged app supplier (as in Workday acquiring Iona spinout Cape Clear)? Not so good.Effectively this means little to the independent middleware market which had already collapsed in upo...

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