Progress buys IONA

It seems that Iona is no longer in limbo - Progress Software are buying Iona for around $100m in actual value.

Back in April 2007 I joked about the perennial problem: you wait ages for a bus, and then three turn up. In Iona's case they had Artix, ServiceMix and C24. Now Progress has to somehow deal with the ESB capabilities of Sonic, Artix, ServiceMix and C24. Its going to be interesting to see how they position four ESBs to customers. Or is it five? Or maybe six? Sorry I forgot that James Strachan often says people consider ActiveMQ an ESB. That would make seven!

I can only imagine they are going to have to cut some of that technology.