IONA Technologies


IONA Technologies was an Irish software company. It was founded in 1991.
The company began life as a campus company in Trinity College, Dublin and maintained headquarters in Dublin, Boston and Tokyo.
The company specialized in distributed service-oriented architecture technology. IONA products connect systems and applications by creating a network of services without requiring a centralized server or creating an information technology project.

History

On 25 June 2008 it was announced that IONA would be acquired by Progress Software for about $162 million, which occurred shortly thereafter.
On 24 December 2012 Progress Software sold the IONA-related Orbix, Orbacus and Artix software product lines to Micro Focus International plc for $15 million.
The open-source group was later spun out into its own entity, FuseSource Corp, which was acquired by Red Hat in 2012. This group consisted of individuals and technologies involved in the various open-source projects and communities, including those that joined as part of the acquisition of LogicBlaze.

IONA and standards

IONA was involved in the development of standards that are relevant to large-scale IT integration. IONA employs the Web service, Java, TMF and Common Object Request Broker Architecture families of standards in their products, and was involved in the following standards bodies:
IONA promoted both open-source and commercially licensed software, participated in several open source initiatives, and acquired LogicBlaze. IONA was involved in the following open-source projects, and offered enterprise versions of the projects that are tested, certified and supported. These became part of FuseSource Corp., now within Red Hat.
IONA's initial integration products were built using the CORBA standard, and more recent products were built using Web services standards.
IONA's products include