Seagull Software, maker of numerous emulation and development tools for the iSeries, plans to acquire privately held SofTouch Systems, Seagull announced this week. The $3.6 million deal has gotten the green light by both companies' boards of directors and is set to close by the end of the month.
SofTouch specializes in integrating mainframe apps with Services-Oriented Architecture (SOA), the latest craze in the Web world. Seagull plans to integrate SofTouch's CrossPlex CICS-to-Web-services transformation product into its own LegaSuite Web services platform for the iSeries, IBM mainframe, Fujitsu ICL mainframe, Unix/VT, and Windows.
