On 24 Feb 2008 in A-Team Free, Delivery Terms, FTI-Middleware, FTI-SOA, FTI-Web Services, FinTech-Infrastructure.com
Industry speculation places Software AG as interested in acquiring Iona Technologies, which announced it has received an “unsolicited preliminary expression of interest” that might lead to a formal offer.
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On 11 Feb 2008 in A-Team Free, Delivery Terms, FTI-Events, FTI-Mashups, FTI-SOA, FTI-Web Services, FinTech-Infrastructure.com
Financial data vendor Xignite will debut Splice Studio, a Web Services mashup tool, at today’s Web Services on Wall Street conference. Splice allows the easy integration of individual Web Services to form composite services, providing a higher level of functionality for applications that are looking to consume them.
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On 16 Jan 2008 in A-Team Free, Delivery Terms, FTI-Application Servers, FTI-Corporate News, FTI-Event Processing, FTI-SOA, FinTech-Infrastructure.com
BEA Systems did not get the $21/share that it wanted, but the $19.375 that it accepted today from Oracle was at least a couple more bucks than was originally offered by Larry Eliison’s juggernaut back in October of last year, and valued the company at $8.5 billion. Facing a potential downturn in the market, BEA probably got as good a price as it was going to. Oracle CEO Ellison noted that the “combination with BEA gets us where we need to be [in the middleware market],” adding that there is a big overlap in the two companies’ customer bases.
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