Company type | Privately held firm |
---|---|
Industry | software |
Predecessor | Orbware |
Founded | 1999 |
Successor | Workday, Inc |
Headquarters | San Mateo, California |
Area served |
Atlanta Chicago Denver Waltham Dublin, Ireland London, UK |
Services | ESB ( Enterprise service bus) |
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. [1] 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 Orbware [2] [3] [4] 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 [5] 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) [6] and May 2001 (Full Release) [7]
Cape Clear was identified as one of the leading ESB vendors by Forrester Research in July 2006. [8] [9]
On 2008-02-06, Workday, Inc announced that it had reached a definitive agreement to purchase Cape Clear. [10] [11]