Follow the money: new acquisition demonstrates SOA viability

IONA Technologies just announced it is acquiring LogicBlaze, an open source SOA tools company.

ZDNet blogging colleague Dana Gardner provides a compelling overview of the acquisition, and what it means to the SOA market. Namely, that this is just the latest in a series of acquisitions, partnering and product announcements now going on in the SOA space.

With all this activity, Dana concludes: "Do you think SOA is all hype? Not a chance."

A couple of months back, Dana, I and several other analysts had a chat with a Wall Street guru who opined that Wall Street didn't really quite "get" SOA yet. Maybe the Street is starting to get the message.