Iona Technologies Ltd, the Dublin, Ireland company where SunSoft Inc is now own a shareholder, is setting up a direct sales office in San Francisco, but says it will keep its research, development and marketing activities back in its home town. The integrated version of Iona’s Orbix object request broker and SunSoft’s Distributed Objects Everywhere Object Group Corba implementations, is expected to go into beta test in a couple of months, with general release by year-end. In addition, Iona says it has won a large user contract for its Orbix object request broker which it will make public at the end of this month.
