IONA Technologies

IONA Technologies was an Irish software company. It was founded in 1991. The company began life as a campus company in Trinity College, Dublin and maintained headquarters in Dublin, Boston and Tokyo. The company specialized in distributed service-oriented architecture infrastructure. IONA products connect systems and applications by creating a network of services without requiring a centralized server or creating an IT stack. On 25 June 2008 it was announced that IONA would be acquired by Progress Software for about $162 million, which occurred shortly thereafter. On 24 December 2012 Progress Software sold the IONA-related Orbix, Orbacus and Artix software product lines to Micro Focus International plc for $15 million. The open-source group was later spun out into its own entity FuseSource Corp.. This group consisted of individuals and technologies involved in the various open-source projects and communities, including those that joined as part of the acquisition of LogicBlaze.