IONA's iPORTAL APPLICATION SERVER ACHIEVES JAVA™ 2 PLATFORM, ENTERPRISE EDITION (J2EE™) CERTIFICATION

IONA Delivers the Industry's First J2EE™ Technology-Based Portal Platform to Address the Development, Integration and Web Presentation Requirements of Enterprise Portal Applications

Waltham, Ma - November 15, 2000 - IONA®, the Enterprise Portal Company™ (NASDAQ: IONA), today announced the release of the 1.3 version of its iPortal Application Server™, which has successfully attained Sun Microsystem's Java 2, Enterprise Edition (J2EE™) Certification. IONA's iPortal Application Server is a cornerstone of the iPortal Suite™, which is a standards-based integration, development and web presentation platform for the creation of e-business applications and enterprise portals.

"We're pleased to welcome IONA, a leader in e-business infrastructure, to the family of application servers that have received J2EE certification," said George Paolini, vice president of System Software Technology Evangelism and Marketing at Sun Microsystems. "IONA's leadership in the middleware market, and their newly-certified application server, position them well to provide customers with an open, standards-based approach to developing integrated e-business solutions and enterprise portals."

"IONA is one of our most trusted, long standing partners," said Dr. Pehong Chen, president and CEO of BroadVision®. "We already work with IONA to incorporate their market-leading Orbix offering into our suite of e-business applications. With the J2EE certification of IONA's iPortal Application Server, we can ensure interoperability between our applications and iPortal. We look forward to extending their application server technology to our customers."

Unlike other application servers based on EJB™ technology, IONA's iPortal Application Server has been built from the ground up to leverage EJB 1.1 standards. It includes an EJB 1.1 technology-based container, a Java 2 platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE™) Web container that supports JavaServer Pages™ technology, Servlets, and complete support for other enterprise technology specifications included in the J2EE platform. Additionally, IONA's iPortal Application Server version 1.3 features the following enhancements:

  • Seamless EJB and CORBA interoperability using the industry's most advanced CORBA infrastructure
  • Complete mainframe connectivity, where CICS/IMS applications written in Cobol and PL/1 can be accessed seamlessly through enterprise beans running in IONA's J2EE certified-compliant container
  • Support of management and administration using JMX standard
  • Support for the dynamic re-deployment of containers, allowing rapid replacement of application server logic in 24-by-7 operating systems
  • New features including lightweight pure Java™ Transaction Manager and HTTP server support for deployed J2EE technology-based web applications

"Receiving J2EE certification underscores IONA's commitment to supporting open standards that protect our customer's investments," said Barry Morris, IONA's CEO. Recently, industry analysts recognized IONA as a leading platform provider for integrating, building and deploying enterprise portal applications, and today's certification from Sun further illustrates this leadership."

Compliance Testing:
Sun's J2EE technology certification is the industry's only comprehensive test suite for assessing compatibility with J2EE specifications. Since bringing the iPortal Application Server to market, IONA has passed more than 6,500 tests.

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 a full diversity of languages, including Java and C++, and distributed computing technologies, including SOAP, XML, EJB, J2EE, CORBA, Microsoft's Windows DNA 2000 and IBM OS/390, CICS and IMS. Founded in 1991, IONA is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland with US headquarters in Waltham, Massachusetts. The company had revenues of $105 million in 1999 and employs more than 750 people in 30 offices worldwide. For more information, please see www.iona.com.

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