IONA'S ARTIX PROVIDES EXPRESS DELIVERY FOR POSTE ITALIANE GROUP

Artix to Provide Foundation for Enterprise Wide Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)

DUBLIN, Ireland & WALTHAM, Mass. - December 14, 2005 - IONA® Technologies (NASDAQ: IONA), a world leader in high-performance integration solutions for mission-critical IT environments, today announced that Poste Italiane Group, a leading provider of express mail, logistics and financial services across Italy has selected Artix?, IONA's extensible Enterprise Service Bus (ESB). Artix will provide the foundation for the Business Partner Integration (BPI) project, a critical component of Poste Italiane's Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) strategy. Using SOA principles, the BPI project was initiated to integrate and extend Poste Italiane's IT infrastructure with the service management systems of its partner companies.

The Poste Italiane Group has expanded its business partner network rapidly over the past five years and today offers integrated communications, logistics and financial products and services that deliver important new revenue streams for the company. These new services are offered through Poste Italiane's nationwide network of 14,000 post offices, employing 154,000 staff, across nine regional offices and 140 branch offices with 60,000 service counters. The BPI project was initiated to integrate the IT systems of partner companies and government bodies that use Poste Italiane's post office network to bring their products and services to the market. It is also expected to support the roll-out of increased e-government service offerings across the postal network in 2006.

"Our need to bring together such a diverse set of partners and service offerings made it imperative that the technology we selected could securely support any number of IT environments," said Alessandro Saralli, Team Leader, Central Office, Information and Communications Technology, Poste Italiane. Following an extensive evaluation of a number of SOA technologies, Poste Italiane selected Artix for its high levels of security, broad platform support, performance and reliability. Mr Saralli added, "We were familiar with IONA's outstanding reputation in the integration market, and once we evaluated Artix, it quickly rose to the top of our selection list. Artix's extensible plug-in architecture will allow us to integrate with the broadest set of IT platforms and extend beyond that set should future needs arise."

"In today's corporate environment, consolidation and partnerships are a frequent occurrence across almost every industry. Merging a diverse set of IT infrastructures into a cohesive enterprise is a challenging and very real issue," said Peter Zotto, CEO, IONA Technologies. "Maintaining competitiveness and a speedy time to market across multiple business operations requires a flexible and highly responsive IT infrastructure. Achieving these efficiencies in a cost effective manner is vital and we are very pleased that Poste Italiane has selected IONA's Artix as their SOA solution for such a strategic development initiative."

About IONA

For more than a decade, IONA� Technologies (NASDAQ: IONA) has been a world leader in delivering high-performance integration solutions for Global 2000 IT environments. IONA pioneered standards-based integration with its CORBA-based Orbix� products. Artix?, IONA's extensible Enterprise Service Bus, enables existing enterprise systems to be integrated with an organization's common infrastructure components. IONA's sponsorship of the ObjectWeb Celtix open source ESB is a natural extension of the company's history of solving integration problems by leveraging open standards and distributed architectures.

IONA is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland, with U.S. headquarters in Waltham, Massachusetts and offices worldwide. For additional information about IONA, visit our Web site at http://www.iona.com.

IONA, IONA Technologies, the IONA logo, Orbix, High Performance Integration, Artix, Mobile Orchestrator and Making Software Work Together are trademarks or registered trademarks of IONA Technologies PLC and/or its subsidiaries. CORBA is a trademark or registered trademark of the Object Management Group, Inc. in the United States and other countries. All other trademarks that may appear herein are the property of their respective owners.

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