IONA LAUNCHES NEXT-GENERATION APPLICATION SERVER FOR THE JAVA™ 2 PLATFORM, ENTERPRISE EDITION (J2EE™)

New iPortal Application Server™ 3.0 Combines Enterprise Features with Mass-Market Pricing Model to Deliver Industry's First J2EE™ Compatible Server for Total Business Integration™

JavaOnesm Conference 2001 - San Francisco, CA. - June 4, 2001 - IONA®, the leading e-Business Platform provider for Total Business Integration™ (NASDAQ: IONA), today announced iPortal Application Server™ 3.0 - the next-generation Java™ 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition application server. The iPortal Application Server 3.0 combines strict J2EE standard conformance and unique Extreme Programming features with application integration and Web services generation tools to provide unparalleled usability, flexibility and reliability for enterprise applications.

Built to the needs of tomorrow's integrated business, the IONA iPortal Application Server 3.0 addresses the evolution of the Java™ platform as the platform of choice to connect the enterprise and beyond. Leveraging its foundation based on J2EE technology, the iPortal Application Server 3.0 adds support for a wide set of distributed computing standards and technologies, enabling out-of-the-box application-to-application (A2Ai) and external business-to-business (B2Bi) integration, and interoperability with XML-based Web services.

"IONA has long been a leader in the e-business infrastructure space, and was an early adopter of Java technology," said Rick Saletta, Group Marketing Manager for Sun Microsystems. "The Java 2 platform has reached a level of maturity within the enterprise, and become the platform customers are relying on to integrate and run their business. With its iPortal Application Server 3.0, IONA has responded to the evolution of Java technology, and is providing customers an advanced J2EE technology-based platform that delivers the high degree of interoperability, reliability and scalability required to handle the demands of enterprise e-business."

"Our goal in developing the iPortal Application Server 3.0 was not to simply provide organizations with an advanced application development environment, but to empower them with a scalable J2EE platform that is powerful enough to serve as the back-bone of their entire business integration solution," said Simon Pepper, director of J2EE products at IONA. "The iPortal Application Server 3.0 combines extensibility and performance to enable organizations to seamlessly integrate their internal systems and present them through the Web to perform complex business interactions and achieve Total Business Integration."

Designed for Extreme Programming Environments
Extreme Programming is a highly intuitive and productive application development process that is gaining popularity among developers of component-based systems, such as the J2EE platform and Microsoft .NET. The development and deployment experience using iPortal Application Server 3.0 was designed to complement this process:

  • Using a sophisticated source code management facility, the iPortal Application Server offers incremental build capabilities and dynamic class loading technology.
  • The iPortal Application Server offers the unique ability to re-deploy complete applications in live systems, reconfigure live applications and store live deployment configurations in stateful repositories.
  • Bundled with and tightly integrated with the application server, the Forte" for Java v2.0 provides comprehensive development, build, deployment and distributed debugging capabilities.

Supplying e-Business Integration Capabilities
iPortal Application Server 3.0 is expressly designed to combine application server with enterprise integration capabilities out of the box:

  • The iPortal Application Server is at the core of IONA's e-Business Platform for Total Business Integration, providing an end-to-end e-business integration solution combining A2Ai, B2Bi, XML, Web services, J2EE technology, CORBA and Enterprise Portal technologies.
  • Existing applications or systems, written in C++, the Java programming language, COM+, C#, vb.NET, COBOL and PL/1 running on Windows, Unix and Mainframe platforms, can be leveraged with applications for the J2EE platform.
  • Developers can easily browse for, implement, deploy, test and access Web Services for existing J2EE technology-based applications without the need to develop the XML or marshal SOAP.
  • Improved interoperability between J2EE technology-based applications and JMS Messaging, Message Connection Pooling and Consumer classes are provided to deliver Message Driven Bean capabilities.
  • The iPortal Application Server extends IONA's unique OS/390 integration ability by allowing Mainframe applications to seamlessly interoperate with J2EE technology-based applications while preserving the transactional and security properties.
  • The iPortal Administration Console, a component of the iPortal Application Server, uses the latest Java Media Extension (JMX) technology and provides a complete and comprehensive extensible instrumentation and management solution for the J2EE platform.
  • IONA's reliance on, and adherence to, J2EE in designing and developing iPortal Application Server 3.0 ensures that IONA will continue to provide broad support for such integration-focused enterprise Java features as EJB 2.0 and the J2EE Connector Architecture (JCA).

Support:
The iPortal Application Server utilizes the latest JDK 1.3 technology to offer support for a diversity of platforms including Windows NT, Windows 2000, HP-UX, Solaris, AIX and Tru64 environments. Through JDBC 2.0 technology and use of the latest SequeLink 5.1 from MERANT, the iPortal Application Server is available for Oracle, SQLserver, Sybase, Informix, IBM UDB and dB2.

Pricing and Availability:
iPortal Application Server 3.0 is immediately available via subscription for an annual fee of $495. The subscription includes a full developer license, e-mail support, online upgrades and documentation materials. The deployment charge for the iPortal Application Server 3.0 Standard Edition is $2,500 per CPU.

About IONA:
IONA is a leading e-Business Platform provider for Total Business Integration™. The IONA e-Business Platform provides users with a complete solution for end-to-end business integration inside and outside the firewall. IONA's e-Business Platform includes a J2EE-compliant application server, a mainframe and enterprise application integration suite as well as XML web services, Java and CORBA development tools, and a business-to-business integration (B2Bi) platform. Founded in 1991, IONA is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland with U.S. headquarters in Waltham, Massachusetts. The company had revenues of $153 million in 2000 and employs more than 1000 people in 30 offices worldwide. Please visit www.iona.com for more information.

IONA, IONA e-Business Platform, iPortal Application Server, IONA Enterprise Integrator, IONA Mainframe Integrator, IONA B2B Integrator, iPortal SureTrack, IONA XMLBus, Orbix, Adaptive Runtime Technology and Total Business Integration are trademarks or registered trademarks of IONA Technologies. SUN, Sun Microsystems, the Sun Logo, Java, and J2EE are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc in the United States and other countries. CORBA is a trademark or registered trademark of the Object Management Group,Inc in the U.S. and other countries. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

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