TOGETHERSOFT AND IONA TEAM TO SPEED DEVELOPMENT OF ENTERPRISE JAVA BEAN APPLICATIONS

Integration of Together Control Center and iPortal Application Server Provides Innovative Solution for E-Business Development

Waltham, MA. - December 4, 2000 - IONA Technologies®, the Enterprise Portal Company™ (NASDAQ: IONA),) and TogetherSoft Corporation, the "Infrastructure Enabler"™ company, today announced the integration of the Together Control Center with the IONA iPortal™ Application Server to help customers simplify their e-business development efforts.

Togethersofts Together Control Center is an end-to-end development environment that simplifies the design, deployment, debugging, and administration of complex B2B applications. IONAs iPortal Application Server is a certified J2EE-compliant application server for the deployment of scalable, robust business logic for implementing enterprise portals. IONA and Togethersoft have seamlessly integrated these products to help iPortal Application Server customers utilize the Together Control Center to simplify their development efforts. This "building block" integration offering can be downloaded at: http://www.iona.com/products/ip_ipas_home.htm

"The iPortal Application Server is one of the leading development solutions on the market today and the integration of the Together Control Center will help our customers develop and deploy J2EE applications at an even faster pace," said Patrick OBrien, vice president of product planning and strategy for IONA. "Togethersofts functionality provides a perfect complement to our own, and were excited to extend this integrated offering to our customers."

"The depth, breadth, and quality of the Together Control Center and the proven reliability and scalability of the iPortal Application Server provides a complete, end-to-end solution that addresses every aspect of the development and deployment lifecycle," said Karl Darr, Vice President of Business Development for TogetherSoft Corporation. "Our Together Control Center adds significant value to the iPortal Application Server, and were thrilled to work with IONA to meet our mutual customers needs."

About TogetherSoft
TogetherSoft Corporation is the "Infrastructure Enabler"(tm) company. Its flagship product, Together Control Center, gives infrastructure a face, reduces time to market, and mitigates vendor risk and infrastructure-technology risk for companies wanting to build better apps faster and freedom from over-dependency on any one infrastructure vendor. Unlike other software-product companies, TogetherSoft develops products using its patent-pending platform-and-building-blocks technology, making possible "massively parallel development"(tm). This allows over 100 programmers, working in teams of 1-2, to simultaneously develop value-added building blocks for the platform, adding new features at a pace 10-20 times faster than industry norms.

With the Together product line, TogetherSoft develops and markets product/service bundles that reduce software development risk by helping teams deliver frequent, tangible, working results. The Together product line is the emerging leader and fastest growing control center for enterprise e-solutions, a comprehensive control center for everyone involved in software development, from manager to business person to designer to programmer to tester.

TogetherSoft is headquartered in Raleigh and has offices in San Jose and Stuttgart. Visit www.togethersoft.com and its "building block" community site at www.togethercommunity.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 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 http://www.iona.com.

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