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February 06, 2008 | Comments: (0)

Cape Clear ESB vendor acquired

TAGS: SOA

On-demand business services vendor Workday has acquired enterprise service bus vendor Cape Clear Software, Workday said on Wednesday.

The Cape Clear ESB already is a component of every Workday deployment; it will no longer be offered as a standalone product and will be available only as part of the Workday Integration On Demand package. The acquisition will allow Workday to accelerate customer support packages, Workday said. Workday was started by former PeopleSoft CEO David Duffield.

Existing Cape Clear customers will continue to be supported by Workday.

Cape Clear is to become Workday's integration team based in Dublin, Ireland. Annrai O'Toole, CEO of Cape Clear, will become vice president of integration at Workday.

"This could be the day that the middleware industry finally broke the mold on how to deliver integration technology — this could also be the day that SOA finally stood up and announced its intention to be a real driver of business value, and not just a driver of technology innovation," O'Toole said in a blog entry.

"For those of you who may be a little surprised at a hosted applications company buying an SOA and ESB company, you shouldn’t be. This is really the logical outcome of many of the things I’ve written about on these pages over the last several years," said O'Toole.

O'Toole said Cape Clear and Workday share a vision of how applications should work.

Financial terms of the acquisition were not released; the purchase is expected to be completed in 30 days.

Posted by Paul Krill on February 6, 2008 05:37 PM

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