In a couple of recent posts I’ve expressed my doubts about Progress Software’s decision to divest its middleware products and concentrate on providing a cloud-based development environment. In one post, I suggested that
They’re effectively killing the middleware product value they have by announcing a slow death for them. As MWD suggests in @neilwd’s post on the topic, the sales pipeline for those products has just disappeared – reducing any revenue to PSC pre-sale, and reducing the value (and therefore the sale price) of the assets. It would have been much better to have organised the sale/spin-off prior to this announcement.
It seems PSC’s competitors can smell the blood in the water, as WSO2 announces support and alternatives for Sonic customers who may now be feeling abandoned …
forward thinking Progress customers are looking at alternative vendors, who can provide a stable, supported, and innovative middleware platform … For IT teams seeking a more robust alternative to Progress Software and looking to avoid the risk of an unknown platform future, WSO2 provides a viable path forward.
Ouch. But they won’t be the last to join the feeding frenzy …
It’s bound to happen, any enterprising competitor will be trying to take advantage of the uncertainty of the situation.