Progress Software has acquired Mindreef, a provider of SOA service validation and testing tools. Mindreef will be fully integrated into Progress Software, and will adopt the Progress Software company name. Progress expects to retain most Mindreef product names, however, this will be reviewed over the months following the acquisition.

The Progress Software mission is:  "To deliver superior software products and services that empower our partners and customers to dramatically improve their development, deployment, integration and management of quality applications worldwide."   The Mindreef acquisition provides quality and validation products that complement each of the phases of delivering quality applications for SOA.

In January 2008, Progress introduced the concept of real-world SOA, which embodies three key challenges: Distribution, Quality of Service (QoS) and Heterogeneity. Mindreef’s core competency in quality and validation tools directly aligns with QoS, where QoS helps organizations strive for a SOA that is fast, reliable, scalable and secure, and thus strengthens our overall go-to-market strategy moving into 2009.