ZapThink analyst Jason Bloomberg told internetnews.com NetManage is accomplishing a couple of things by acquiring Librados.

“The Librados adapter technology rounds out NetManage’s Host Services Platform, enabling them to offer service-oriented architecture capabilities to customers with a much broader range of host-based legacy applications,” Bloomberg said. “On the other hand, this acquisition opens up a new market for NetManage, as they bring the Librados technology to their customer base.”

On a competitive front, Bloomberg said the blend of NetManage’s business with Librados’ unusual licensed source code model promises better SOA enablement and more flexible legacy adapters.

“In other words, they’re positioning themselves to be an iWay killer,” he said, referring to iWay Software, a Librados rival and unit of Information Builders that currently offers more than 250 application adapters.

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