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     <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>
         <P><strong>DUBLIN, Ireland &amp; WALTHAM, Mass &amp; OTTAWA, Ontario, Canada</strong> <strong>&ndash;
 		September 12, 2005</strong> - IONA&reg; Technologies (NASDAQ: IONA), a world leader in high-performance
 		integration solutions for mission-critical IT environments, and the Eclipse Foundation, a community
 		committed to the implementation of a universal platform for tools integration, today announced that
 		IONA has joined the Eclipse Foundation as a Strategic Developer. In this role, IONA is bringing
 		to bear more than a decade&rsquo;s worth of integration experience to lead a proposed Service Oriented
 		Architecture (SOA) Tools Platform (STP) project. </p>
         <p>IONA joins the nine existing Strategic Developers; Actuate, BEA, Borland, Computer Associates,
 		IBM, Intel, Scapa, Sybase and Wind River as a Board Member for the Eclipse Community. The STP
 		project proposal is intended to provide an integrated developer tooling platform for SOA-based
 		infrastructure, creating the foundation for an extensible tool set for constructing SOA applications.
 		Once approved by the Eclipse community, the STP project will be the Eclipse top-level project to address
 		the needs of developers building and implementing Service Oriented Architecture projects. The STP project
 		 proposal is available on the Eclipse Foundation Website for review and comment for the next 30 days at
 		 <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/projects/index.html" target="_top">http://www.eclipse.org/projects/index.html</a>. </p>
         <p>&ldquo;The trend for SOA infrastructure is away from expensive server-centric architectures toward
 		open, distributed implementations. And good infrastructure needs good tools,&rdquo; said Eric Newcomer,
 		CTO, IONA. &ldquo;Joining Eclipse and leading the STP project gives IONA the opportunity to collaborate
 		with a vibrant community to deliver simple, powerful and extensible SOA tools that let developers focus
 		on development and integration challenges without limitations brought about by the complexity of the
 		tools environment. Our participation in Eclipse also brings together our efforts in the ObjectWeb Celtix
 		community with a world-class tooling effort.&rdquo; </p>
         <p>The initial scope of the STP project proposal will cover essential developer requirements for creation
 		of service consumers and providers, the configuration of physical attributes of a service, definition of
 		policies and governance for access or consumption of services, locating or adding services to an SOA and
 		the creation of artefacts that can be used to deploy, enforce or manage SOA-based system participants. As
 		part of the STP, IONA will lead sub-projects to deliver tooling for ObjectWeb Celtix, the open source ESB
 		project sponsored by the company and tooling for JBI. Tooling for Artix, IONA&rsquo;s commercially
 		available ESB is currently Eclipsed-based and this code base will be made available to Eclipse. Further,
 		the STP project will benefit from the work of existing Eclipse projects such as the Data Tools Project led
 		by Sybase and Web Tools Project led by BEA and ObjectWeb. </p>
         <p>&ldquo;AS SOA continues to develop into a mainstream approach to enterprise computing, it becomes
 		apparent that developers will need the right tools to deliver applications for these emerging
 		environments,&rdquo; said Mike Milinkovich, director, Eclipse Foundation. &ldquo;IONA brings a wealth of
 		knowledge and experience in distributed computing to the proposed SOA Tools Platform project and we are
 		pleased with their decision to lead this effort at Eclipse.&rdquo;</p>
         <p>&ldquo;The most basic principles of SOA adoption require that disparate elements within the enterprise
 		can be brought together to create new business applications and support advanced business processes and
 		today&rsquo;s developers require the right tools to accomplish this, independent of the underlying
 		technology,&rdquo; explained Massimo Pezzini, VP and distinguished analyst, Gartner. &ldquo;Open source
 		tooling helps integrate the broad range of technologies needed to support a successful SOA deployment into
 		a coherent framework.&rdquo;<br>
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             <P> For more than a decade, IONA&reg; 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&reg; products. Artix&trade;, IONA&rsquo;s extensible Enterprise Service Bus, enables existing enterprise systems to be integrated with an organization&rsquo;s common infrastructure components.</p>
           <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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	<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>
	<P><strong>DUBLIN, Ireland & WALTHAM, Mass & OTTAWA, Ontario, Canada</strong> <strong>–
	September 12, 2005</strong> - IONA® Technologies (NASDAQ: IONA), a world leader in high-performance
	integration solutions for mission-critical IT environments, and the Eclipse Foundation, a community
	committed to the implementation of a universal platform for tools integration, today announced that
	IONA has joined the Eclipse Foundation as a Strategic Developer. In this role, IONA is bringing
	to bear more than a decade’s worth of integration experience to lead a proposed Service Oriented
	Architecture (SOA) Tools Platform (STP) project. </p>
	<p>IONA joins the nine existing Strategic Developers; Actuate, BEA, Borland, Computer Associates,
	IBM, Intel, Scapa, Sybase and Wind River as a Board Member for the Eclipse Community. The STP
	project proposal is intended to provide an integrated developer tooling platform for SOA-based
	infrastructure, creating the foundation for an extensible tool set for constructing SOA applications.
	Once approved by the Eclipse community, the STP project will be the Eclipse top-level project to address
	the needs of developers building and implementing Service Oriented Architecture projects. The STP project
	proposal is available on the Eclipse Foundation Website for review and comment for the next 30 days at
	<a href="http://www.eclipse.org/projects/index.html" target="_top">http://www.eclipse.org/projects/index.html</a>. </p>
	<p>“The trend for SOA infrastructure is away from expensive server-centric architectures toward
	open, distributed implementations. And good infrastructure needs good tools,” said Eric Newcomer,
	CTO, IONA. “Joining Eclipse and leading the STP project gives IONA the opportunity to collaborate
	with a vibrant community to deliver simple, powerful and extensible SOA tools that let developers focus
	on development and integration challenges without limitations brought about by the complexity of the
	tools environment. Our participation in Eclipse also brings together our efforts in the ObjectWeb Celtix
	community with a world-class tooling effort.” </p>
	<p>The initial scope of the STP project proposal will cover essential developer requirements for creation
	of service consumers and providers, the configuration of physical attributes of a service, definition of
	policies and governance for access or consumption of services, locating or adding services to an SOA and
	the creation of artefacts that can be used to deploy, enforce or manage SOA-based system participants. As
	part of the STP, IONA will lead sub-projects to deliver tooling for ObjectWeb Celtix, the open source ESB
	project sponsored by the company and tooling for JBI. Tooling for Artix, IONA’s commercially
	available ESB is currently Eclipsed-based and this code base will be made available to Eclipse. Further,
	the STP project will benefit from the work of existing Eclipse projects such as the Data Tools Project led
	by Sybase and Web Tools Project led by BEA and ObjectWeb. </p>
	<p>“AS SOA continues to develop into a mainstream approach to enterprise computing, it becomes
	apparent that developers will need the right tools to deliver applications for these emerging
	environments,” said Mike Milinkovich, director, Eclipse Foundation. “IONA brings a wealth of
	knowledge and experience in distributed computing to the proposed SOA Tools Platform project and we are
	pleased with their decision to lead this effort at Eclipse.”</p>
	<p>“The most basic principles of SOA adoption require that disparate elements within the enterprise
	can be brought together to create new business applications and support advanced business processes and
	today’s developers require the right tools to accomplish this, independent of the underlying
	technology,” explained Massimo Pezzini, VP and distinguished analyst, Gartner. “Open source
	tooling helps integrate the broad range of technologies needed to support a successful SOA deployment into
	a coherent framework.”<br>
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	<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>
	<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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	frameworks for building software. Eclipse provides extensible tools
	and frameworks that span the software development lifecycle, including
	support for modeling, language development environments for Java,
	C/C++ and others, testing and performance, business intelligence,
	rich client applications and embedded development. A large, vibrant
	ecosystem of major technology vendors, innovative start-ups, universities
	and research institutions and individuals extend, complement and
	support the Eclipse Platform.</p>
	<P> The Eclipse Foundation is a not-for-profit, member supported corporation
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