Cisco's AON: Mythical Middleware Menagerie

摘要

When Cisco Systems announced its Application-Oriented Networking line in June 2005, the market was abuzz with speculation on the technology and the sudden importance of XML to the company. Thinking the announcement heralded the acceptance of XML in the enterprise, other vendors began to snatch up XML and service-oriented architecture vendors as if they were berries ripe for the picking. Less than a month after the announcement, Intel acquired Sarvega. In October, IBM snatched up DataPower Technology. And this January saw the acquisition of Actional by Progress Software, which, you may recall, is the parent of enterprise service bus vendor Sonic Software.