Boeing purchases enterprise licences for IONA Orbix E2A

In a deal worth around $5m to IONA, Boeing Commercial Airplanes [BCA] has issued a statement of Direction naming IONA's Orbix E2A as a preferred integration technology.

BCA, which represents about 60% of Boeing, has signed an enterprise development and run-time licence agreement with IONA for use of both the Orbix E2A Web Services Integration Platform and the Orbix E2A Application Server Platform.