Cape Clear Software, Inc., was a vendor of ESB (

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) software, founded in 1999. Cape Clear was a spin-off from

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. and was a privately held firm with headquarters in San Mateo, California, US, and offices in Atlanta, Chicago, Denver and Waltham, US; Dublin, Ireland; and London, UK. In November 2000, Cape Clear acquired Orbware a privately held UK-based software company founded in 1999 who were a

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licensee and whose OrCAS Enterprise Server product was a compact and high-performance implementation of the

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(

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) and

specifications. Cape Clear made a final release of the OrCAS J2EE server product in February 2001 before the OrCAS product was merged with Cape Clear's CapeConnect

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integration server product. The combined product was named CapeConnect and was first released in April 2001 (Beta Release) and May 2001 (Full Release) Cape Clear was identified as one of the leading ESB vendors by

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in July 2006. On 2008-02-06,

Workday, Inc Workday, Inc., is an American on‑demand (cloud-based) financial management, human capital management and Student information system software vendor. Workday was founded by David Duffield, founder and former CEO of ERP company PeopleSoft, alon ...

announced that it had reached a definitive agreement to purchase Cape Clear.Another ERP vendor buys into middleware ZDNet February 6th, 2008
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External links

Cape Clear websiteCape Clear Developer websiteCape Clear ESB at Workday
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