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Layer 7 Exec Comments on IBM's Acquisition of DataPower

VP Sirota Says Big Companies Not Doing Enough
By SOA News Desk
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October 19, 2005 09:30 AM EDT
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IBM's acquisition of DataPower will no doubt cause commentary on the part of customers, partners, and competitors, as Big Blue continues its recent aggressive marketing and technology moves into the burgeoning global SOA marketplace. One of the early comments came from Layer 7, and a company executive also spoke with Web Services Journal about the deal.

“This acquisition seems to concede that the current generation performance and security solutions offered by the platform vendors is not enough for customers contemplating SOA.” says Dimitri Sirota, VP of Marketing and Alliances, Layer 7 Technologies, in commenting on IBM's acquisition of DataPower. “The question for customers will now be how do they implement cross-platform, open solutions that fit their heterogeneous SOA environments. This is an area where Layer 7 has unique strength.”

The company had said in an official announcement that the acquisition represented "a major milestone in the SOA sector, and demonstrates growth in the market." The statement added that the acquisition "presents many opportunities to companies like Layer 7 that provide standards-based, cross-platform security and governance solutions for XML, web services, and SOA."


Dimitri Sirota

Questioned about Layer 7's existing relationship with IBM's Tivoli division, Sirota noted that “Tivoli has been a good, but not exclusive, partner for Layer 7. We have multiple joint customers and several joint opportunities we will continue to support with Tivoli. We of course also have opportunities generated through other relationships."

"While Datapower and Layer 7 compete on high performance XML appliances, Layer 7 also offers software based gateways, XML VPNs and SOA compliance products not offered by Datapower. We anticipate continuing to work with Tivoli in several of these areas.”

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SOA Web Services Journal News Desk 10/19/05 09:39:45 AM EDT

SOA Web Services - Layer 7 CEO Comments on IBM's Acquisition of DataPower. 'This acquisition seems to concede that the current generation performance and security solutions offered by the platform vendors is not enough for customers contemplating SOA.' says Dimitri Sirota, VP of Marketing and Alliances, Layer 7 Technologies.