SOA Software is on track to become the first $100 million vendor with an SOA-specific offering, says Jason Bloomberg, a senior analyst at research firm ZapThink. “SOA Software was already strong in the areas of security, management and runtime governance, while Blue Titan brings enterprise-class mediation to the fold,” he says.

Combined, the two vendors aim to provide offer a platform-neutral SOA infrastructure that can work with enterprise service bus (ESB) products from vendors such as BEA Systems, IBM, Tibco and webMethods.

“Platform neutrality is an important factor here, because companies are finding that when they take the platform/ESB approach to SOA infrastructure, they still need a way to handle mediation among various platforms and integration technologies — middleware for their middleware,” Bloomberg says. With the Blue Titan purchase, SOA Software’s platform can be tied to whatever ESB or other integration infrastructure is already in place at an enterprise, he says.

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