In the first of a series of service-oriented architecture (SOA) conversion programs, Sonic Software (www.sonicsoftware.com), the inventor and leading provider of the enterprise service bus (ESB), today announced that it will offer TIBCO customers a competitive trade-up program aimed at accelerating their transition from inflexible and expensive integration platforms of the past to a SOA platform based on Sonic ESB(R). Sonic intends to provide TIBCO (Nasdaq: TIBX) customers with Sonic SOA Suite(TM) licenses of equivalent capability to their currently deployed TIBCO products, for a price equivalent to their TIBCO maintenance.

"Customers have paid multiple millions of dollars for enterprise licenses of TIBCO products--with hundreds of thousands of dollars in annual maintenance fees. These customers are frustrated with the inadequate returns they have achieved with this traditional, centralized hub-and-spoke integration technology," said Greg O'Connor, president of Sonic Software. "Sonic provides flexible SOA infrastructure out of the box that is helping organizations accelerate their transition to enterprise-wide SOA, and significantly reducing SOA project risk."

"We're making it much easier for companies to embrace the huge potential of service-oriented architecture," continued O'Connor.

SOA presents the opportunity for organizations to achieve broad-scale interoperability of IT systems, while providing the flexibility required to continually adapt these systems to changing business requirements. SOA requires a new type of software infrastructure called the ESB that can connect, mediate and control a wide variety of services in a flexible manner across a distributed environment.