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Application integrator Progress Software (Quote, Chart) has agreed to
buy Neon Systems (Quote, Chart) for $68 million to make mainframe
integration a part of its DataDirect unit.
DataDirect makes software drivers for databases and operating systems to
connect disparate types of data, which is a crucial task in distributed computing models, such as service-oriented architectures (SOA).
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