Software AG’s announcement suggests this is a major step towards their stated goal of becoming a €1 billion software company. According to Software AG CEO Karl-Heinz Streibich, the acquisition positions Software AG as one of the global leaders in SOA and BPM. He also stressed the expected foothold in the critical North American market that webMethods will bring to the company. This is another in a series of acquisitions that have occurred in the last 15 months, including the acquisition of SOA governance vendor Systinet by Mercury, which was in turn acquired by HP in July (see here and here for coverage on InfoQ). In September, webMethods acquired Systinet competitor Infravio, which now becomes part of Software AG as part of the webMethods deal.
As Software AG has its own governance solution with CentraSite, co-developed with Fujitsu, an obvious question is how this and the Infravio registry are going to be integrated. InfoQ had chance to question Ivo Totev, Vice President crossvision Product Strategy at SOA, about this, who highlighted the reliance on JAX-R as something that will pay off now:
In the mid term we will of course develop and support both products. Later we will combine best of both worlds. This is the beauty of standards - since both are based on JAX-R this will be achieved without rewriting the one or the other product. Customers will benefit from this strategy. No matter if CentraSite or Infravio: there is a clear upgrade path to future releases at the pace of our customers - and there is a clear path towards increased innvovation from the combined engineering team.
Totev highlighted webMethods' B2B, BAM and BPM capabilities, and Software AG's strength in SOA Enablement and Legacy Modernization.
Jason Bloomberg, Senior Analyst at ZapThink, shared his opinion with InfoQ:
While we don't know about Larry Ellison's personal feelings, it will definitely be very interesting what kind of impact the combination of both companies can make in the SOA space.This is huge news in the SOA space, because the combination of Software AG and webMethods is now second only to IBM in terms of both traditional integration and SOA capabilities. This is a marketshare play and a SOA play entirely. Software AG gets a much stronger North American presence, and they can now leave the likes of TIBCO and Oracle in their dust. Mark my words, Larry Ellison is not going to be happy about this news.
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Interesting news for people following SOA and XML
by Frank Cohen,
Re: Interesting news for people following SOA and XML
by miko matsumura,
Re: Interesting news for people following SOA and XML
by miko matsumura,
Interesting news for people following SOA and XML
by Frank Cohen,
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I've been following Software AG as publisher of an XQuery and native XML database platform that is good for building XML-oriented services. WebMethods has a good practice as a system integrator and publisher of process management tools. Aligning Infravio to CentraSite is going to prove if JAX-R implementations really are interoperable. (Where's Miko on this?)
From my viewpoint the cosolidate market looks like this:
BEA with AquaLogic "I'm an ESB, no?"
Oracle with Fusion "The ring to rule all others" Middleware
IBM with WebSphere "All these parts fit together, right?" and Tivoli
Microsoft with BizTalk "I'm an ESB, right?" and .NET
Those are the big platform plays. And the more system-integration-ish plays are now:
Software AG: with WebMethods and Infravio
Progress Software: with Sonic, DataDirect, Actional, etc.
IONA: with Artix, Orbix, Celtix, etc.
Of course, they all missed the purchase of Mercury Interactive for SOA Governance. I wonder where that puts HP?
-Frank
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Re: Interesting news for people following SOA and XML
by miko matsumura,
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Well, unfortunately there are limits to what I can say at this stage as material public statements end up on the record with the SEC if they happen during the tender offer period. At least that's what I've been told.
I can say that JAXR normalizes the highly interoperable UDDI standard with the semantically rich end-user driven ebXML Registry Repository model--and provides really a fantastically practical object oriented information model standard out there for SOA Registry Repository.
Repository is a funny beastie as anything that stores state can be called one. But among the few standardized ways to build a repository in such a way as to preserve a standards based set of semantics around lifecycle management, auditing and some pretty interesting capabilities.
Farrukh, who admittedly is an ebXML RR zealot posted the comparison here:
ebxmlrr.sourceforge.net/tmp/Registry_Capability...
But of course the real approach is provider level 1 for JAXR which provides for 100% interop across both of these standards. So it's not an either-or in any case.
Miko
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yick, sorry for the double block quotes at the end, that was an error.
Miko