SOA Acquisitions

SOA Consolidation

There are plenty of software infrastructure companies that have 'service enabled' their offerings. However, there are only a few companies that one would consider "pure SOA infrastructure". And in the last couple of years they've been getting snapped up...

Where did all of the SOA companies go?
We know that following the SOA space feels like a full time job. For that reason we are attempting to make life just a bit easier. We have accumulated a list of 'SOA Centric' acquisitions, identifying the seller (producer) and the buyer (consumer). We've also identified a handful of companies that are 'SOA Centric' (mostly startups) that have not been acquired.

Producer To Consumer

The Mind Electric ... WebMethods

Confluent ... Oblix (which sold to Oracle)

Collaxa ... Oracle

Sarvega ... Intel

DataPower ... IBM

Westbridge ... Actional (merger)

Actional ... Progress / Sonic

Systinet ... Mercury

ClientSoft ... Neon

Neon ... Progress / Sonic

FiveSight ... Intalio

ThoughtDigital ... SOA Software

SeeBeyond ... Sun Microsystems

Flamenco Networks ... SOA Software

Talking Blocks ... Hewlett Packard

Adjoin ... Computer Associates

Kenai Systems ... Forum Systems

Blue Titan ... SOA Software

Infravio ... WebMethods

Webify ... IBM

Mercury ... HP

Flashline ... BEA

BEA ... Oracle

Reactivity ... Cisco

LogicBlaze ... Iona

WebMethods ... SoftwareAG

Who are the SOA centric companies that have not been acquired?
Many of the 'SOA Centric' companies have not gone done the acquisition path. In many cases, they have chosen to mature their products and grow their customer bases prior to considering M&A activity (upping the valuation). In other cases, the companies are fairly new to the market and are in early stages of creating next-gen SOA products.

Producer

Amberpoint

WSO2

Active Endpoints

MuleSource

SOA Software

Forum Systems

Mindreef

Layer 7 Technologies

Cape Clear

WebLayers

ActiveGrid / WaveMaker

Logic Library

RogueWave

GT Software

iTKO

Parasoft

Bookmark this page - we'll continue to update the list as acquisition events occur...