The driver for IONA's buying spree 

By Pieter Hintjens Posted Tuesday 10th April 2007 17:10 GMT

The reason for IONA's purchases of C24 and LogicBlaze is probably the emergence of a new standard for messaging middleware, namely AMQP, which is being developed by a working group that includes IONA and other firms, including my own little firm. See www.amqp.org.

AMQP is driving the messaging market towards commoditization.