http://blog.joedrumgoole.com/2008/06/25/end-of-an-era-iona-sold-for-162m/ Ace King, check it out! Wed, 08 Feb 2012 01:14:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://blog.joedrumgoole.com/2008/06/25/end-of-an-era-iona-sold-for-162m/#comment-1663 Sat, 28 Jun 2008 09:24:58 +0000 http://joedrumgoole.com/blog/2008/06/25/end-of-an-era-iona-sold-for-162m/#comment-1663 Hey Steve, you and me both. Never spent a day there, though I did get a fly from Annrai at one point.

]]> http://blog.joedrumgoole.com/2008/06/25/end-of-an-era-iona-sold-for-162m/#comment-1662 Sat, 28 Jun 2008 09:23:12 +0000 http://joedrumgoole.com/blog/2008/06/25/end-of-an-era-iona-sold-for-162m/#comment-1662 As one of the few Irish geeks never to have been employed by Iona I agree totally with Joe’s thoughts here. Not getting on board with the abortion that was early enterprise-Java was a fatal error for Iona. Their belated attempt to fuse Corba and J2EE (Artix) was a great, if doomed, piece of engineering though.

]]> http://blog.joedrumgoole.com/2008/06/25/end-of-an-era-iona-sold-for-162m/#comment-1661 Thu, 26 Jun 2008 14:12:24 +0000 http://joedrumgoole.com/blog/2008/06/25/end-of-an-era-iona-sold-for-162m/#comment-1661 For a publically quoted company with a previous valuation of 1.2bn its a bit of step down.

]]> http://blog.joedrumgoole.com/2008/06/25/end-of-an-era-iona-sold-for-162m/#comment-1660 Thu, 26 Jun 2008 12:43:25 +0000 http://joedrumgoole.com/blog/2008/06/25/end-of-an-era-iona-sold-for-162m/#comment-1660 162 million is not too bad an exit though.

]]> http://blog.joedrumgoole.com/2008/06/25/end-of-an-era-iona-sold-for-162m/#comment-1659 Thu, 26 Jun 2008 04:15:42 +0000 http://joedrumgoole.com/blog/2008/06/25/end-of-an-era-iona-sold-for-162m/#comment-1659 [...] looks at the history of Iona as news of their sale hits. God, weren’t they the middleware golden children in the [...]

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