One of IBM Corp.’s most prominent data integration product brands—Omnivore (an enterprise search-oriented flavor of its WebSphere Information Integrator franchise)—also doubles as an apt description of its acquisition practices.
Big Blue last week devoured still another tasty vendor, in this case Unicorn Solutions, Inc., a provider of metadata modeling and management tools. Representatives say IBM plans to incorporate Unicorn’s technology into future releases of its WebSphere middleware and Rational app dev products to help beef up the SOA and MDM capabilities of both families.
