Looking to strengthen its hand
in telecommunications infrastructure software, Oracle announced Wednesday it has
agreed to buy HotSip, a vendor of communications software based in Stockholm.
HotSip sells the HotSip M2CE, a
carrier-grade application server for SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) and J2EE
(Java 2, Enterprise Edition). SIP is emerging as a common protocol to link many
forms of communication on IP (Internet Protocol) networks. The M2CE can be used
as a platform for HotSip IP telephony, presence, messaging and conferencing
applications. HotSip also offers a service creation environment for customizing
existing applications and adding new ones to the M2CE, according to the
company's Web site.
Terms of the deal were not
disclosed.
Oracle, in Redwood Shores,
California, recently closed its approximately $5.85 billion acquisition of Siebel
Systems and on Tuesday announced its purchase of open-source database
vendor SleepyCat
Software.
