Consolidation in the industry keeps grinding on, with Software AG announcing that they will acquire webMethods for $546M. Last year, when I interviewed webMethods’ EVP of Product Development, I wrote that their new BPM launch placed them squarely in competition with IBM and TIBCO. Not surprisingly, today’s press release states:
The combined company will create a market leader in the software industry, specifically in the fast growing services oriented architecture, business process management and software application integration markets – just behind IBM and Tibco.
I guess we know who the competition is…
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Buy Fever — Software AG/webMethods
Just as the SOA industry stopped reeling from the revelation that Software AG had made plans to acquire webMethods, we were met with more news that IONA was buying LogicBlaze. But let’s go one at a time. ebizQ analysts and…
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Sandy Kelmsley notes that Software AG is buying webMethods. A word of unsolicited monkchips advice: Don
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