http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/soa-talk/it%e2%80%99s-official-iona-is-part-of-progress/ A SearchSOA.com blog Tue, 24 Apr 2012 15:27:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/soa-talk/it%e2%80%99s-official-iona-is-part-of-progress/#comment-493 Formerionian Tue, 24 Mar 2009 03:42:47 +0000 http://soa-talk.blogs.techtarget.com/2008/09/17/it%e2%80%99s-official-iona-is-part-of-progress/#comment-493 Don’t know if it is already too late, but here is the real story, straight from the founders of IONA (all really good guys): they had two distinct things in mind when naming the company: (1) “IONA” is an island* off the coast of Scotland (off the western most tip of the Isle of Mull) where the Book of Kells (http://tinyurl.com/ckq3ct) was hidden by monks during the dark ages and then sprung forth as the source of enlightenment (as the company was expected to do) (2) they figured IONA Technologies might get abbreviated as “IT” which they thought would be quite fitting. *Bonus trivia: in the early days of the company, many conference rooms were named after other Irish islands…

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