Industry Analyst Reports and Quotes
Independent Research on SOA and IONA
"With Artix Connect for WCF, IONA has created a compelling alternative to traditional .NET interoperability options that focuses on empowering Microsoft developers working within Microsoft’s Visual Studio development environment,” said Brad Shimmin, principle analyst, Current Analysis . “This is counter to most interoperability options available within the SOA marketplace, which predominantly lean toward the Java developer’s perspective. In a nutshell, IONA’s approach promises to free IT departments from having to choose between Java and .NET – an unenviable position faced by many large IT organizations grappling with corporate acquisitions"
Brad Shimmin
Current Analysis
"We are taking a positive stance on IONA as an application infrastructure provider as it seeks to capitalize upon its open source efforts and expand its Artix product family through acquisition and internal development."
Brad Shimmin
Current Analysis
"Look for SOA vendors with unique deployment architectures (e.g. IONA) to lead the way in terms of innovative solutions"
Brad Shimmin
Current Analysis
"In general, the enhancements bolster the firm's differentiator in having a lightweight, distributed piece of infrastructure for SOAs."
Shawn Willett
Current Analysis
"A truly successful SOA deployment will enable organizations to extract additional value from existing infrastructure by making it more available to new systems and by ensuring that the entire architecture is agile enough to be responsive to an ever-changing business and technology landscape."
Massimo Pezzini
Gartner
"Their (IONA's) architecture, I'm quite fond of it. It's WS-*-based at its core. It means that you don't have to deploy proprietary protocols to make this thing work."
Anne Thomas Manes
Burton Group
"What you're seeing is companies have two ways to go in the SOA space. Either you try to deliver everything, which is the IBM way to do it. Or you can offer various pieces in the SOA stack."
Tom Rhinelander
New Rowley Group
"Best practices for successful SOA require that organizations develop an enterprise-wide strategy combined with a staged deployment methodology that is responsive to changing business requirements."
Massimo Pezzini
Gartner
"One of the appealing things about Artix is they're [IONA] not trying to impose a heavy layer on people. It's what differentiates them from a lot of the players."
Shawn Willett
Current Analysis
"Orchestrating services in a SOA deployment provides organizations with the flexibility and agility necessary to respond to ever-changing business and technology requirements. Gartner believes that BPEL will be important to organizations requiring process centricity in SOA applications."
Daryl Plummer
Gartner
"Artix offers a lower cost, yet highly efficient way to create a more tightly integrated back office, while facilitating the launch of new services critical to the future success of the service provider."
Paul Hughes
Yankee Group
"IONA's MTOSI Toolkit offers an excellent way for developers to familiarize themselves with this important standard and its role in successful SOA implementations."
Paul Hughes
Yankee Group
"For open source technologies to have a distinct impact on mainstream SOA adoption, they must provide standard interoperability with legacy and modern closed source technologies, offered with support and services dedicated to SOA integration."
Yefim Natis
Gartner
"...the arrival of Celtix Enterprise provides them (organizations) with the opportunity to embrace the SOA future with the support of a vendor that has built its reputation on solving complex distributed computing challenges."
Tom Rhinelander
Analyst
"IONA fully embraces its Celtix open source experiment"
New Rowley Group
"Based on the level of adoption we have found in Europe and North America, open source software for mission-critical infrastructure and applications has crossed over from a pioneer or early-adopterstatus to the point where it can be considered a mainstream alternative."
Michael Goulde
Forrester Research
"By 2010, Global 2000 IT organizations will use open-source products in 80 percent of infrastructure focused software investments and 25 percent of business software investments (0.8 probability)."
Laurie F. Wurster
Gartner
"IONA Technologies detailed its bear-hug embrace of open source as a burgeoning market driver for the company. IONA is not just dabbling in open source, it does appear now as its fundamental road to the future."
Dana Gardner
Interarbor Solutions
"It is also increasingly likely SOA deployments will include a combination of open source and commercial software, and it is vital world-class services are available to support these mixed environments."
Massimo Pezzini
Gartner
"Celtix's distributed architecture, as well as its sponsorship by an established global company like Iona, distinguish the project. Celtix has distributed end points, which arguably adhere more closely to the concept of SOA, which is supposed to be distributed, not hub based."
Shawn Willett
Current Analysis
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