Oracle Buys Agile
Yep… if you want Agle, you can just go and buy it.
Just kidding of course. As it happens, there actually is a company called Agile Software (imagine the false-positives when doing a Google search for Agile methodologies. I had the worst time when trying to find conferences on Agile methodologies in Paris recently; all I could find was conferences of Agile Software products). They even have the agile.com domain! They also have a logo that has suspicious similarities to the Scrum Alliance logo. However, they are a PLM company and seem to bear no relationship with the Agile & Scrum communities or practices. PLM is a relatively hot domain nowadays, as witnessed last year by the purchase of MatrixOne by Dassault Systèmes, the industry leader, and this year of UGS by Siemens.
As it appears, they (Agile Software) have themselves been acquired recently by Oracle. (All that for a fun headline!)
While I was at it, I checked other Agile-style domains.
- agile.net apparently belongs to a company simply called Agile that designs websites. They try to relate to Agile methodologies (mention of a book called Extreme Programming for Web Projects).
- agile.org, agile.fr and agile.co.uk have been snapped by a Domain Name Warehouse / Speculator
