Although large commercial vendors made early strides into the market for SOA software, open-source components are rapidly finding their way into the picture.

Vendors such as Iona Technologies, Red Hat, MuleSource, WSO2, Sun Microsystems and even IBM are pushing <A HREF="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,2155922,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03119TX1K0000594">open-source components as key pieces of service-oriented architecture</A> implementations.

To solidify its move into the open-source SOA world, Iona acquired LogicBlaze in April. Now the company will show off the fruits of that acquisition July 9 with several new initiatives designed to give customers the products, services and support programs--as well as opportunities for community participation--required to successfully incorporate open-source technology into SOA deployments, said Eric Newcomer, chief technology officer at Iona.