Progress Software (NASDAQ:PRGS) announced today their intentions to acquire IONA Technologies plc (NASDAQ: ADR) for $162M. Its clear Progress is going for a SOA industry roll-up and I’m excited to see the breakout from among the non-mega platform vendors: IBM, Oracle, Microsoft, Sun.
IONA has struggled to redefine themselves in the post CORBA, SOA world and I know that isn’t for lack of technical horsepower. It will be interesting to see how Sonic/Actional + IONA develop the ESB market and how other SOA infrastructure evolves.
