ZapThink analyst Jason Bloomberg said that while Sun and SeeBeyond have complementary product lines and similar philosophies with respect to Java, Sun has a spotty track record for acquisitions.

Moreover, he said, SeeBeyond’s market for tightly coupled, single-platform enterprise application integration is disappearing.

“Both firms centered their SOA efforts on Java’s write once, run anywhere portability value proposition, which is fundamentally at odds with SOA interoperability centric value proposition,” he said.

“The combination of the two companies, therefore, is shaping up as a ‘dumb and dumber approach to SOA, as competing vendors like BEA and Sonic Software hammer out solutions that better address the agility and heterogeneity needs of today’s enterprises.”

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