IONA Technologies

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IONA Technologies, Inc.
Type Public (NASDAQ: IONA)
Founded 1991
Headquarters Dublin, Ireland
Industry Computer software
Consulting
IT Services
Products IONA Artix, FUSE, Orbix, Orbacus
Website www.IONA.com

IONA Technologies, NASDAQ: IONA, began life as a campus company in Trinity College, Dublin and was founded by Chris Horn, Annrai O'Toole, Colin Newman and Seán Baker.[1][2] IONA maintains headquarter offices 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. IONA products are widely deployed in the telecommunications and financial industries.

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[edit] IONA and Standards

IONA is 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 is involved in the following standards bodies:

[edit] IONA and Open Source

IONA promotes both open source and commercially licensed software, participates in several open source initiatives and acquired LogicBlaze.[3] IONA is involved in the following open source projects, and offers enterprise versions of the projects that are tested, certified and supported[4].

[edit] IONA Products

IONA's initial integration products are built using the CORBA standard, and more recent products are 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
  • Orbix - enterprise CORBA solution
  • Orbacus - embeddable C++ CORBA ORB
  • Professional services - training, consulting, and support

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Campus Companies Programme Irish Scientist 1999
  2. ^ Irish Independent Thu, Jan 24 2002
  3. ^ eWeek April 10, 2007
  4. ^ ebizQ July 9, 2007

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