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.Iona offspring surprised by Cape Clear row Sunday Business Post Online, May 5, 2002 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 OrbwareCape Clear Acquires Leading UK Java Technology Licensee; Orbware Acquisition Extends CapeConnect Product Line With Java2 Platform Business Wire, November 20, 2000 Cape Clear press release, November 20, 2000 Venture Wire News, November 20, 2000 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 Cape Clear press release, February 20, 2001 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)Cape Clear Releases World’s First Web Services Platform with CapeConnect Two for J2EE Cape Clear press release, April 9, 2001 and May 2001 (Full Release) Cape Clear press release, May 17, 2001
Cape Clear was identified as one of the leading ESB vendors by Forrester Research in July 2006.Cape Clear continues to lead the ESB market Forrester Research, July 2006BEA, Cape Clear claim no. 1 ESB spot ZDNet July 6, 2006
On 2008-02-06, Workday, Inc announced that it had reached a definitive agreement to purchase Cape Clear.Workday press release Another ERP vendor buys into middleware ZDNet February 6th, 2008
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External links Cape Clear website Cape Clear Developer website Cape Clear ESB at Workday