IONA Technologies

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Former type Public Fate Acquired Founder Annraí O'Toole Defunct 2008		Traded as NASDAQ: IONA Website iona.com Founded 1991 Parent organization Progress Software
Industry Computer software Consulting IT Services Products IONA Artix, FuseSource Corp., Orbix, Orbacus Headquarters Dublin, Republic of Ireland Motto "Making Software Work Together" Subsidiaries Netfish Technologies Inc

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) infrastructure. IONA products connect systems and applications by creating a network of services without requiring a centralized server or creating an IT stack.

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.. 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 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 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

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