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Three decades of connecting enterprise systems.
Willow Technology is a privately held software group headquartered in Douglas, Isle of Man, with a heritage in messaging middleware that reaches back to 1991.
Corporate profile
Willow Technology, Inc. was founded in the United States in January 1991 by Gary Clueit, Don Breuner and Theresa Kolz. In 1993 and 1994, Mr Clueit acquired the shares of Ms Kolz and Mr Breuner. The company has been owned by Gary & Susan Clueit since then.
Willow's primary business is reliable messaging middleware for enterprise customers. In 1994, the company signed a source-code licensing agreement with IBM under which Willow would port the new MQ (formerly MQSeries and WebSphere MQ) software to computer platforms and operating systems that IBM itself could not support. Over the years, Willow has ported MQ to over 40 different platforms. The agreement with IBM continues to this day. In addition, Willow has built and supported MQ for companies such as Sequent (later acquired by IBM), Stratus (now Penguin Solutions) and IBM itself.
Willow has also developed its own line of MQ add-on products under the viaMQ brand.
In April 2018, Mr Clueit established a new company, Willow Technology (Isle of Man) Ltd., in Douglas to undertake research and development into emerging middleware messaging, security and artificial intelligence technologies. In October 2019 the Isle of Man company acquired Willow Technology, Inc., and responsibility for worldwide software development, product support and corporate management transitioned to the island.
Willow's products and services have supported business-critical functions at Global 2000 companies across industries in some 100 countries.
The company has always remained debt-free and has been profitable in every year of its operation.
What we do
- Messaging middleware — MQ Servers, and Clients, viaMQ add-ons.
- Technical support — 24x7x365 support for Willow products and unsupported older IBM distributed MQ platforms.
- Remote operations — monitoring, troubleshooting and maintenance of customers' MQ networks for a fixed annual fee.
- Research & development — emerging messaging, security and artificial-intelligence technologies. Willow and its aiLexiom division are members of the NVIDIA Developer Program and the NVIDIA Partner Network.
- Lab services — enterprise-class servers running more than two dozen operating systems, available for benchmarking, development, testing and proof-of-concept work.
The group
Established in 2026 as a social-enterprise division of Willow Technology (Isle of Man) Ltd., aiLexiom applies adaptive intelligence to legislative analysis and drafting. It is intended to become an independent entity once its initial R&D phase is complete.
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