In yet-another sign of the consolidation of the infrastructure business, Progress Software announced the acquisition of IONA. IONA, with headquarters in Dublin and Boston, was a high flyer in the 90s with the development of the first implementation of CORBA, a key middleware technology for integration. While the company stumbled in later years, they have been retooling around SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) In yet-another sign of the consolidation of the infrastructure business, Progress Software announced the acquisition of IONA. IONA, with headquarters in Dublin and Boston, was a high flyer in the 90s with the development of the first implementation of CORBA, a key middleware technology for integration. While the company stumbled in later years, they have been retooling around SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) including their open source Artix technology. So raise a pint of Guiness for IONA as it enters into the next chapter of its history. Go mbeire muid beo ar an am seo arís. Open Source