Iona Releases New EAI Product Line

Headquartered in Dublin, Ireland, Iona said it has built the Artix family from scratch to enable companies to revamp any application, even those built on Customer Information Control System (CICS) and Information Management System (IMS) for the mainframe, for an SOA.

The Artix family is comprised of four components.

-- Artix Relay, software to provide high-performance Web services links between CORBA, MQSeries, Tuxedo, Tibco and other middleware products.

-- Artix Migrate, software that enables applications to bypass existing middleware platforms they've been hard-coded to interact with. This gives customers a relatively painless means of consolidating disparate EAI middleware.

-- Artix EnCompass, software that can transform existing application applications into Web services, which can then be distributed over an SOA.

-- Artix Mainframe, a specialized version of Artix EnCompass that transforms CICS and IMS mainframe transactions into Web services.

Iona said customers will spend $100,000 to $300,000 for a typical enterprise solution. Artix Relay and Migrate are available now. Artix EnCompass and Mainframe are due by the end of the quarter.