Cape Clear (software company)
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Cape Clear is a vendor of ESB (Enterprise service bus
) software, founded in 1999.
Cape Clear was a spin-off from IONA Technologies
. and was a privately held firm with headquarters in San Mateo, CA, and offices in Atlanta, GA, Chicago, IL, Denver, CO, Waltham, MA, Dublin, Ireland, and London, UK.
In November 2000, Cape Clear acquired Orbware-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 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) and May 2001 (Full Release)
Cape Clear was identified as one of the leading ESB vendors by Forrester Research
in July 2006.
On 2008-02-06, Workday, Inc
announced that it had reached a definitive agreement to purchase Cape Clear.
Enterprise service bus
An enterprise service bus is a software architecture model used for designing and implementing the interaction and communication between mutually interacting software applications in Service Oriented Architecture...
) software, founded in 1999.
Cape Clear was a spin-off from IONA Technologies
IONA Technologies
IONA Technologies was an Irish software company. It was founded in 1991.The company began life as a campus company in Trinity College, Dublin and maintains headquarters in Dublin, Boston and Tokyo....
. and was a privately held firm with headquarters in San Mateo, CA, and offices in Atlanta, GA, Chicago, IL, Denver, CO, Waltham, MA, Dublin, Ireland, and London, UK.
In November 2000, Cape Clear acquired Orbware-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
Enterprise JavaBean
Enterprise JavaBeans is a managed, server-side component architecture for modular construction of enterprise applications.The EJB specification is one of several Java APIs in the Java EE specification. EJB is a server-side model that encapsulates the business logic of an application...
(EJB) and Java EE specifications.
Cape Clear made a final release of the OrCAS J2EE server product in February 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) and May 2001 (Full Release)
Cape Clear was identified as one of the leading ESB vendors by Forrester Research
Forrester Research
Forrester Research is an independent technology and market research company that provides its clients with advice about technology's impact on business and consumers. Forrester Research has five research centers in the US: Cambridge, Massachusetts; New York, New York; San Francisco, California;...
in July 2006.
On 2008-02-06, Workday, Inc
Workday, Inc
Workday, Inc. is an on-demand financial management and human capital management software vendor. It was founded by David Duffield, the founder and former CEO of PeopleSoft, and former PeopleSoft chief strategist Aneel Bhusri. The company was started in March 2005 and launched in November 2006...
announced that it had reached a definitive agreement to purchase Cape Clear.