Ouch.
After Seemage, AS Infor, Polyspace, Kynogon & Pertinence, yet another IDEES company to be acquired. Xcalia was backed by Innovacom, Iris Capital & I-Source. It was also the very first investment from the seed fund Cap Decisif, in 2002.
Xcalia was part of the IDEES program (aka Startup Accelerator) and was one of the very first ISV supporting VS2008 & Linq. We had a very tight technical relationship with the company: They were a wwde launch partner for Linq & VS 2008 last year. A pretty unique partnership.
Announcing the release of Visual Studio 2008, S. “Soma” Somasegar, corporate vice president of the Developer Division at Microsoft, quotes Xcalia :
"Xcalia, a company that provides data and services intermediation software that makes it easier for enterprise businesses to build and maintain service-oriented applications, now provides LINQ support with its main product, Xcalia Intermediation Core. The team that developed Xcalia Intermediation Core also benefited from the performance and stability improvements in Visual Studio 2008 and used LINQ to simplify development. By supporting LINQ, the company offers powerful new tools to existing and potential customers developing applications on the Microsoft .NET Framework."
The Official PR.
BEDFORD, Mass. – March 18 2008 — DataDirect Technologies, a leader in data connectivity and mainframe integration and an operating company of Progress Software Corporation (Nasdaq: PRGS), today outlined its plans to support the rapidly emerging Service Data Objects (SDO) standard within its family of data connectivity and mainframe integration products. The SDO standard, developed by a diverse group of leading technology vendors participating in the OASIS SDO working group is designed to simplify and unify the way applications use data within a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA).
Concurrently, Progress Software announced its recent acquisition of Xcalia, a leader in the development and adoption of the SDO standard and data integration technologies. Xcalia is now part of the DataDirect Technologies operating company. The terms of the agreement were not disclosed.
Xcalia is a member of several international standards committees including JSR 317 (JPA2) and JSR 235 (SDO for Java™) within the Java Community Process (JCP). The company is also an active member of the OASIS and Open SOA consortiums contributing to the Service Data Objects (SDO 1, 2 and 3) and Data Access Service (DAS) specifications. Additionally, Xcalia spearheaded JDO and worked on EJB 3 standards.
Congrats to Eric, Pierre and the whole team.
About Xcalia
Xcalia’s dynamic integration software makes it easier for enterprises to build composite applications in SOAs while reusing valuable information resources, optimizing IT investments and reducing operating costs. Through Intermediation, a layer between the business model and the data/services resources, applications can be created or updated quickly to meet changing business demands. Xcalia is ideal for high-performance transactional applications that also need to reuse legacy and mainframe resources with maximum interoperability in any environment. The company has 20 large enterprises among its customers and has key partnerships with IBM, Microsoft and Sun Microsystems. Headquartered in Paris, France, Xcalia has offices in the U.S. and the company is privately held. For more information, visit www.xcalia.com.
