- Cape Clear (software company)
Cape Clear is a vendor of ESB (
Enterprise service bus ) software, founded in1999 .Cape Clear was a spin-off from
IONA Technologies . [ [http://archives.tcm.ie/businesspost/2002/05/05/story906687628.asp Iona offspring surprised by Cape Clear row] Sunday Business Post Online, May 05, 2002] and was a privately held firm with headquarters in San Mateo, CA, and offices in Atlanta, GA, Chicago, IL, Denver, CO, Waltham, MA, Dublin, Ireland, and London, UK.In November 2000, Cape Clear acquired Orbware [ [http://www.allbusiness.com/technology/software-services-applications/6537351-1.html Cape Clear Acquires Leading UK Java Technology Licensee; Orbware Acquisition Extends CapeConnect Product Line With Java2 Platform]
Business Wire , November 20th, 2000] [ [http://www.capeclear.com/news/?p=9 Cape Clear acquires leading UK Java Technology Licensee] Cape Clear press release, November 20th, 2000] [ [http://www.capeclear.com/news/?p=10 Cape Clear acquires Orbware] [http://venturewire.com/ Venture Wire News] , November 20th, 2000] - a privately held UK-based software company founded in1999 who were aJ2EE licensee and who's OrCAS Enterprise Server product was a compact and high-performance implementation of theEnterprise JavaBean (EJB ) andJava 2 Enterprise Edition specifications.Cape Clear made a final release of the OrCAS J2EE server product in February 2001 [ [http://www.capeclear.com/news/?p=16 Cape Clear Releases J2EE-Based Orcas Version 4.2] Cape Clear press release, February 20th, 2001] before the OrCAS product was merged with Cape Clear's CapeConnect XML integration server product. The combined product was named CapeConnect and was first released in April 2001 (Beta Release) [ [http://www.capeclear.com/news/?p=32 Cape Clear Releases World’s First Web Services Platform with CapeConnect Two for J2EE] Cape Clear press release, April 9th, 2001] and May 2001 (Full Release) [ [http://www.capeclear.com/news/?p=49 Cape Clear Delivers Web Services to Mainstream Developers with the Full Release of CapeConnect Two for J2EE] Cape Clear press release, May 17th, 2001]
Cape Clear was identified as one of the leading ESB vendors by
Forrester Research in July 2006. [ [http://www.capeclear.com/esbwave06/ Cape Clear continues to lead the ESB market]Forrester Research , July 2006] [ [http://blogs.zdnet.com/service-oriented/?p=655 BEA, Cape Clear claim no. 1 ESB spot]ZDNet July 6th, 2006]On
2008-02-06 ,Workday, Inc announced that it had reached a definitive agreement to purchase Cape Clear. [ [http://www.workday.com/news_and_events/press/integration.php Workday press release] ] [ [http://blogs.zdnet.com/SAAS/?p=448 Another ERP vendor buys into middleware ZDNet February 6th, 2008] ]Notes
External links
* [http://www.capeclear.com/ Cape Clear website]
* [http://developer.capeclear.com/ Cape Clear Developer website]
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