Jason Bloomberg, an analyst with ZapThink LLC, of Waltham, Mass., said, “SOA Software already offered management, security and UDDI capabilities. By adding reliable messaging, they now have a complete SOA fabric offering, similar to, say, Blue Titan.

“This acquisition moves SOA Software more into competition with ESB [enterprise service bus] vendors like Sonic Software. ZapThink sees this news as part of the maturation of the transitional Web Services Management market, since enterprises are now realizing that management is only a piece of the SOA puzzle.

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