| Type | Privately held firm |
|---|---|
| Industry | software |
| Predecessor | Orbware |
| Founded | 1999 |
| Successor | Workday, Inc |
| Headquarters | San Mateo, California |
Area served | Atlanta Chicago Denver Waltham Dublin, Ireland London, UK |
| Services | ESB (Enterprise service bus) |
Cape Clear Software, Inc., was a vendor of ESB (Enterprise service bus) software, founded in 1999.
Cape Clear was a spin-off from IONA Technologies.[1] and was a privately held firm with headquarters in San Mateo, California, US, and offices in Atlanta, Chicago, Denver and Waltham, US; Dublin, Ireland; and London, UK.
In November 2000, Cape Clear acquired Orbware[2][3][4] a privately held UK-based software company founded in 1999 who were a Java EE licensee and whose OrCAS Enterprise Server product was a compact and high-performance implementation of the Enterprise JavaBean (EJB) and Java EE specifications.
Cape Clear made a final release of the OrCAS J2EE server product in February 2001[5] before the OrCAS product was merged with Cape Clear's CapeConnect XML integration server product. The combined product was named CapeConnect and was first released in April 2001 (Beta Release)[6] and May 2001 (Full Release)[7]
Cape Clear was identified as one of the leading ESB vendors by Forrester Research in July 2006.[8][9]
On 2008-02-06, Workday, Inc announced that it had reached a definitive agreement to purchase Cape Clear.[10][11]
Notes
- ↑ Iona offspring surprised by Cape Clear row Sunday Business Post Online, May 5, 2002
- ↑ Cape Clear Acquires Leading UK Java Technology Licensee; Orbware Acquisition Extends CapeConnect Product Line With Java2 Platform Business Wire, November 20, 2000
- ↑ Cape Clear acquires leading UK Java Technology Licensee Cape Clear press release, November 20, 2000
- ↑ Cape Clear acquires Orbware Venture Wire News, November 20, 2000
- ↑ Cape Clear Releases J2EE-Based Orcas Version 4.2 Cape Clear press release, February 20, 2001
- ↑ Cape Clear Releases World’s First Web Services Platform with CapeConnect Two for J2EE Cape Clear press release, April 9, 2001
- ↑ Cape Clear Delivers Web Services to Mainstream Developers with the Full Release of CapeConnect Two for J2EE Cape Clear press release, May 17, 2001
- ↑ Cape Clear continues to lead the ESB market Archived February 5, 2007, at the Wayback Machine Forrester Research, July 2006
- ↑ BEA, Cape Clear claim no. 1 ESB spot ZDNet July 6, 2006
- ↑ Workday press release Archived February 9, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ Another ERP vendor buys into middleware ZDNet February 6th, 2008
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