Recently I've been working on IONA's partnership with Microsoft. That has been keeping me very busy. Trips to Redmond, Nashville and Copenhagen for various events, and lots of other activities.
IONA and Microsoft have a history. IONA has always recognized the value of Microsoft in the IT organizations of the worlds most successful corporations. Back when people were talking about COM Vs CORBA in the 90s, IONA recognized the opportunity to bridge both technologies. IONA understood that Microsoft dominated the desktop in large enterprises (OS/2 was still around but declining). IONA built COMet as a very successful COM/CORBA bridging technology. In my opinion that product helped both companies considerably. Today, as both companies roll out more SOA technologies and products, it is important for us to partner.
IONA continues to help bridge Microsoft based applicaitons and services with non-Microsoft based applications and services today with Artix and Artix Connect. IONA has been working to help integrate with Microsoft products such as Connected Services Framework (CSF) and Customer Care Framework (CCF) - see our Microsoft partner page for more details.
Of course there is also a lot of cooperative activity with Microsoft in the various WS-* standards bodies and working groups. And IONA has participated in interoperability events and plugfests to help ensure that our products interoperate. As new products from IONA and Microsoft come to market, IONA is making sure that we continue to interoperate and integrate with Microsoft.
Many of you know me as a Mac guy. Well I just got a new Dell to help me focus on some of my Microsoft activities. More on that later.
IP Babble is the personal blog of William Henry.
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