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    Iona Acquires LogicBlaze for Open-Source SOA

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    Darryl K. Taft
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    April 10, 2007
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      Iona Technologies has announced its acquisition of LogicBlaze, a provider of open-source service-oriented architecture technology.

      Financial terms of the all-cash acquisition were not disclosed. Iona, based in Dublin, Ireland, with U.S. headquarters in Waltham, Mass., provides SOA infrastructure solutions and is a leader of the open-source Eclipse SOA Tools Project.

      The deal enables Iona to accelerate its strategy of delivering enterprise open-source SOA infrastructure software to large IT organizations, company officials said.

      As part of the acquisition, LogicBlaze co-founders Hiram Chirino, Rob Davies and James Strachan will join Ionas open-source business, Iona officials said. LogicBlaze is based in Marina del Rey, Calif.

      “Ionas customers are looking for ways to reduce costs, while at the same time seeking to add the innovation and flexibility required of IT to rapidly respond to changing business requirements,” said Iona CEO Peter Zotto in a statement.

      /zimages/3/28571.gifClick here to read more about Ionas open-source SOA strategy.

      “In a flat world, open-source communities are providing a new level of creativity to support the trend toward SOA,” Zotto said. “Iona is committed to combining the innovation of open source with innovation from Iona and its partners to deliver solutions based on Ionas unique, distributed approach to SOA.”

      Ronald Schmelzer, an analyst with ZapThink, said, “From a technology perspective, LogicBlaze has some good open-source-based stuff that will add to Ionas open-source offerings. But, as a company, LogicBlaze never really got that far.”

      Indeed, Schmelzer said he believes “Iona saw an opportunity to take on a failing companys valuable assets as a way of continuing its own momentum. Certainly, LogicBlaze wont add a ton of new customers, and I dont think Iona would admit that [Iona] didnt have a credible open-source offering beforehand, so we have to see this as a momentum and opportunistic acquisition.”

      Meanwhile, LogicBlazes Strachan said in a statement: “As a greater number of large IT organizations embrace the use of open-source technology to support their mission-critical applications, they want to know that the innovation of open source is paired with world-class service and support from the development stage through deployment. This is a philosophy shared by Iona and LogicBlaze.”

      Schmelzer said the deal not only increases Ionas momentum in the open-source arena—typified by its Celtix open-source Enterprise Service Bus offering—but also allows the company to compete for mind share in a market that is rapidly consolidating. However, the open-source-versus-commercial part of Ionas strategy is still a bit challenging, Schmelzer added.

      “Their next step needs to be a compelling road map for customers and prospects on how they should choose between open-source and commercial offerings; what the Iona value proposition is there, and the revenue stream; and how they plan to cross-sell or up-sell from one to the other,” Schmelzer said.

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      Darryl K. Taft
      Darryl K. Taft covers the development tools and developer-related issues beat from his office in Baltimore. He has more than 10 years of experience in the business and is always looking for the next scoop. Taft is a member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and was named 'one of the most active middleware reporters in the world' by The Middleware Co. He also has his own card in the 'Who's Who in Enterprise Java' deck.

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