SAIC AND IONA SIGN SYSTEMS INTEGRATION PARTNERSHIP

SAIC To Provide System Integration Services for IONA Customers in Multiple Industries

Waltham, MA. and San Diego, CA. - June 6, 2000 - IONA, the Enterprise Portal Company™ (NASDAQ: IONA) and Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), a Fortune 500 company providing informatioSuite™.

Under the terms of the agreement, SAIC will resell the IONA iPortal Suite to its clients and provide systems integration support and technical expertise to customers purchasing the iPortal Suite directly from IONA. SAIC will also exploit Quava", its own software integrated development environment, to deliver customized solutions for customers in many industries, including utilities, financial services, healthcare, transportation and telecommunications.

"SAIC and IONA will build enterprise portals, Internet commerce sites, and other large-scale distributed applications that streamline the way users access and interact with enterprise and Web-based content," said Rick Goodwin, Assistant Vice President, SAIC. "Organizations interested in integrating and upgrading their existing systems to support e-business with employees, partners and customers will be extremely pleased with our leading-edge solutions."

"SAIC's integration experience in the utilities and telecommunications vertical markets complements IONA's own professional services offerings, said Ed Gaudet, VP, Worldwide Marketing, IONA. "We are committed to offering our customers the best e-business integration solution available, and partners like SAIC extend our products and services and add tremendous value for our customers."

Quava" enables code generation of Java EJB components for IONA's iPortal Application Server™or pure CORBA C++ objects for IONA's Orbix 2000™. It supports generation of classes into complex frameworks consisting of multiple Orbix 2000 services such as events, transaction and persistence. Enhancing project models by relating physical and object models, Quava" is a high-productivity toolkit for rapidly developing and integrating business applications and middleware services.

About the iPortal Suite
IONA's iPortal Suite helps companies build B2B enterprise portals, which are unified points of access that connect the web to the corporate business by integrating all of an organization's applications and back-end systems. The iPortal Suite's five components are:

  • iPortal Server, which provides Internet integration in the form of a portal access and control platform
  • iPortal Integration Server, which is a standards-based environment for leveraging and integrating large-scale enterprise applications
  • iPortal OS/390 Server, which incorporates mainframe applications into e-business solutions, delivering proven business systems to enterprise portals
  • iPortal Application Server, which is an EJB/J2EE-based server for component-based business logic
  • Orbix 2000, which is a standards-based, common e-business infrastructure that is the foundation of the iPortal Suite

About SAIC
SAIC is the nation's largest employee-owned research and engineering company, providing information technology and systems integration products and services to government and commercial customers. SAIC scientists and engineers work to solve complex technical problems in telecommunications, national security, health care, transportation, energy, the environment, and financial services. With annual revenues of exceeding $5.5 billion, SAIC and its subsidiaries, including Telcordia Technologies, have more than 40,000 employees at offices in more than 150 cities worldwide. More information about SAIC can be found on the Internet at www.saic.com.

About IONA
IONA, the Enterprise Portal Company, is a leading provider of e-business infrastructure that helps organizations build and deploy enterprise portals, Internet commerce sites, and other large-scale distributed applications. IONA supports the full diversity of languages -including Java and C++ - and distributed computing technologies - including XML, Enterprise JavaBeans, CORBA, Microsoft's Windows DNA 2000 and IBM OS/390, CICS and IMS - used by today's development organizations. Founded in 1991, IONA Technologies is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland. The company had revenues of $105 million in 1999 and employs more than 650 people in 25 offices worldwide. For more information, please see www.iona.com.

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