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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. A public company usually refers to a company that is permitted to offer its registered securities ( Stock, bonds, etc The NASDAQ (acronym of National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations) is an American Stock exchange. For other uses of this term see Industry (disambiguation An industry (from Latin industrius, "diligent industrious" A consultant (from the Latin consultare means "to discuss" from which we also derive words such as consul and counsel) is a Professional IT Service Management ( ITSM) is a discipline for managing Information technology (IT systems philosophically centered on the customer's perspective of IT's In Marketing, a product is anything that can be offered to a Market that might satisfy a want or need Orbix is a CORBA ORB (Object Resource Broker - a commercial Software product which helps Programmers build distributed applications. A website (alternatively web site or Web site, a back-construction from the Proper noun World Wide Web) is a collection of Web pages The NASDAQ (acronym of National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations) is an American Stock exchange. Trinity College Dublin ( TCD; Irish Coláiste na Tríonóide Baile Átha Cliath; Latin: Collegium Sacrosanctae et Individuae Trinitatis Reginae [1][2] IONA maintains headquarter offices in Dublin, Boston and Tokyo.

The company specializes in distributed service-oriented architecture (SOA) infrastructure. Service-oriented architecture ( SOA) is a method for Systems development and integration where functionality is grouped around Business processes IONA products connect systems and applications by creating a network of services without requiring a centralized server or creating an IT stack. Information technology ( IT) as defined by the Information Technology Association of America (ITAA is "the study design development implementation support IONA products are widely deployed in the telecommunications and financial industries. The field of finance refers to the concepts of Time, Money and Risk and how they are interrelated

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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:

IONA and Open Source

IONA promotes both open source and commercially licensed software, participates in several open source initiatives and acquired LogicBlaze. The Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards ( OASIS) is a Global consortium that drives the development convergence and adoption Object Management Group ( OMG) is a Consortium, originally aimed at setting standards for distributed Object-oriented systems and is now focused The Web Services Interoperability Organization (WS-I is an industry consortium chartered to promote interoperability amongst the stack of Web services specifications Service Component Architecture (SCA is a relatively new initiative advocated by major software vendors The OSGi Alliance (formerly known as the Open Services Gateway initiative now an obsolete name is an open Standards organization founded in March 1999 Open source is a development methodology which offers practical accessibility to a product's source (goods and knowledge [3] IONA is involved in the following open source projects, and offers enterprise versions of the projects that are tested, certified and supported[4].

IONA Products

IONA's initial integration products are built using the CORBA standard, and more recent products are built using Web services standards. The Eclipse Foundation is a not-for-profit member supported corporation that hosts the Open-source Eclipse Projects and helps cultivate both an open source community The Common Object Requesting Broker Architecture (CORBA is a standard defined by the Object Management Group (OMG that enables software components written A Web service (also Web Service) is defined by the W3C as "a software system designed to support interoperable machine-to-machine interaction

IONA's products include

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

External links

FUSE ESB is an enterprise version of Apache ServiceMix that is tested certified and supported FUSE Message Broker is an enterprise version of Apache ActiveMQ that is tested certified and supported FUSE Services Framework is an enterprise version of Apache CXF that is tested certified and supported FUSE Mediation Router is an enterprise version of Apache Camel that is tested certified and supported Orbix is a CORBA ORB (Object Resource Broker - a commercial Software product which helps Programmers build distributed applications.
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