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| 16 | <td align=left width="72%"> <font class=indextop style4>Iona Joins As Strategic Developer </font><br>
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| 26 | <td><p align="center"><span class="style2">IONA JOINS ECLIPSE FOUNDATION AS STRATEGIC DEVELOPER </span><span class="style2">TO <br>LEAD PROPOSED SOA TOOLING PLATFORM TOP-LEVEL PROJECT</span></p>
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| 27 | <P><strong>DUBLIN, Ireland & WALTHAM, Mass & OTTAWA, Ontario, Canada</strong> <strong>–
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| 28 | September 12, 2005</strong> - IONA® Technologies (NASDAQ: IONA), a world leader in high-performance
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| 29 | integration solutions for mission-critical IT environments, and the Eclipse Foundation, a community
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| 30 | committed to the implementation of a universal platform for tools integration, today announced that
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| 31 | IONA has joined the Eclipse Foundation as a Strategic Developer. In this role, IONA is bringing
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| 32 | to bear more than a decade’s worth of integration experience to lead a proposed Service Oriented
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| 33 | Architecture (SOA) Tools Platform (STP) project. </p>
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| 34 | <p>IONA joins the nine existing Strategic Developers; Actuate, BEA, Borland, Computer Associates,
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| 35 | IBM, Intel, Scapa, Sybase and Wind River as a Board Member for the Eclipse Community. The STP
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| 36 | project proposal is intended to provide an integrated developer tooling platform for SOA-based
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| 37 | infrastructure, creating the foundation for an extensible tool set for constructing SOA applications.
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| 38 | Once approved by the Eclipse community, the STP project will be the Eclipse top-level project to address
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| 39 | the needs of developers building and implementing Service Oriented Architecture projects. The STP project
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| 40 | proposal is available on the Eclipse Foundation Website for review and comment for the next 30 days at
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| 41 | <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/projects/index.html" target="_top">http://www.eclipse.org/projects/index.html</a>. </p>
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| 42 | <p>“The trend for SOA infrastructure is away from expensive server-centric architectures toward
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| 43 | open, distributed implementations. And good infrastructure needs good tools,” said Eric Newcomer,
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| 44 | CTO, IONA. “Joining Eclipse and leading the STP project gives IONA the opportunity to collaborate
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| 45 | with a vibrant community to deliver simple, powerful and extensible SOA tools that let developers focus
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| 46 | on development and integration challenges without limitations brought about by the complexity of the
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| 47 | tools environment. Our participation in Eclipse also brings together our efforts in the ObjectWeb Celtix
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| 48 | community with a world-class tooling effort.” </p>
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| 49 | <p>The initial scope of the STP project proposal will cover essential developer requirements for creation
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| 50 | of service consumers and providers, the configuration of physical attributes of a service, definition of
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| 51 | policies and governance for access or consumption of services, locating or adding services to an SOA and
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| 52 | the creation of artefacts that can be used to deploy, enforce or manage SOA-based system participants. As
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| 53 | part of the STP, IONA will lead sub-projects to deliver tooling for ObjectWeb Celtix, the open source ESB
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| 54 | project sponsored by the company and tooling for JBI. Tooling for Artix, IONA’s commercially
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| 55 | available ESB is currently Eclipsed-based and this code base will be made available to Eclipse. Further,
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| 56 | the STP project will benefit from the work of existing Eclipse projects such as the Data Tools Project led
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| 57 | by Sybase and Web Tools Project led by BEA and ObjectWeb. </p>
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| 58 | <p>“AS SOA continues to develop into a mainstream approach to enterprise computing, it becomes
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| 59 | apparent that developers will need the right tools to deliver applications for these emerging
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| 60 | environments,” said Mike Milinkovich, director, Eclipse Foundation. “IONA brings a wealth of
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| 61 | knowledge and experience in distributed computing to the proposed SOA Tools Platform project and we are
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| 62 | pleased with their decision to lead this effort at Eclipse.”</p>
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| 63 | <p>“The most basic principles of SOA adoption require that disparate elements within the enterprise
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| 64 | can be brought together to create new business applications and support advanced business processes and
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| 65 | today’s developers require the right tools to accomplish this, independent of the underlying
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| 66 | technology,” explained Massimo Pezzini, VP and distinguished analyst, Gartner. “Open source
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| 67 | tooling helps integrate the broad range of technologies needed to support a successful SOA deployment into
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| 68 | a coherent framework.”<br>
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| 76 | <td align="left" valign="top" bgcolor="#0080C0"><b><font color="#FFFFFF" face="Arial,Helvetica">About IONA </font></b></td>
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| 83 | <P> 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.</p>
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| 84 | <p>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 <a href="http://www.iona.com" target="_blank">http://www.iona.com</a>.</p></td>
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| 99 | <P> Eclipse is an open source community whose projects are focused
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| 101 | frameworks for building software. Eclipse provides extensible tools
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| 102 | and frameworks that span the software development lifecycle, including
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| 104 | C/C++ and others, testing and performance, business intelligence,
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| 107 | and research institutions and individuals extend, complement and
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