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| Actuate Joins Eclipse Foundation as Strategic Developer <br> | |
| and Board Member</b></span></b></h1> | |
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| <li>Actuate Proposes a Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools Project | |
| to the Eclipse Open-Source Community for Review</li> | |
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| <P>ACTUATE INTERNATIONAL USER CONFERENCE - LOS ANGELES - August 24, 2004 | |
| - The Eclipse Foundation, a community committed to the implementation | |
| of a universal platform for tools integration, and Actuate Corporation | |
| (NASDAQ: ACTU), the world leader in Enterprise Reporting Applications, | |
| today announced that Actuate has joined the Eclipse Foundation as a Strategic | |
| Developer. Actuate will join existing Strategic Developers IBM Corporation, | |
| Intel and QNX Software Systems Limited as a Board Member for the Eclipse | |
| Community. In addition, Actuate is leveraging a decade of experience in | |
| business intelligence and enterprise reporting to propose the Business | |
| Intelligence and Reporting Tools (BIRT) Project. If approved by the Eclipse | |
| community, BIRT will be the first top-level Eclipse project for the development | |
| of applications that include business intelligence and enterprise reporting | |
| functionality. The BIRT project proposal will be available on the Eclipse | |
| Foundation website for review and comment over the next 30 days.</p> | |
| <P> Actuate and Eclipse recognize that reporting and analysis are key functions | |
| of every enterprise and customer-facing application. Today, the majority | |
| of developers build reporting functionality into applications by hand | |
| coding Java Server Pages (JSP) and would benefit from open-source technology | |
| in this area. The approval and adoption of the BIRT project by the open-source | |
| community will provide developers with access to easy-to-use tools that | |
| will help decrease development costs related to business intelligence | |
| and reporting, and increase innovation in this area. </p> | |
| <P>"The potential benefits of open-source efforts such as Eclipse include | |
| reducing technology acquisition costs, increasing the pace of innovation | |
| resulting from multivendor competition, improving quality from the networking | |
| effects of participating developers worldwide and from formalized review | |
| process, and lowering total costs from greater interoperability and reuse." | |
| Mark Driver, Analyst, Gartner, <i>"Eclipse Is Targeting Growth through | |
| Reorganization</i>", February 11, 2004.<br> | |
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| <P>"We are thrilled to welcome Actuate as an Eclipse Strategic Developer," | |
| said Mike Milinkovich, executive director of the Eclipse Foundation Inc. | |
| "We are pleased that Actuate has given the Eclipse open-source community | |
| the opportunity to leverage the company's expertise and leadership in | |
| enterprise reporting technology. Actuate's participation will further | |
| the Eclipse open-source project and contribute to the expansion of the | |
| Eclipse ecosystem so that it remains a nucleus for innovation in the software | |
| industry."</p> | |
| <P>"Actuate is honored to play a stewardship role within Eclipse, the | |
| most broadly adopted universal platform for tools integration," said | |
| Mark Coggins, senior VP of Engineering at Actuate Corporation. "We | |
| look forward to collaborating with the Eclipse community to create BIRT, | |
| a reporting and analysis tool to be developed following the open-source | |
| principles of transparency and meritocracy, where the best ideas and methods | |
| will be incorporated. It is our goal that this project will address the | |
| evolving needs of the open-source development community and we welcome | |
| the community's feedback and comment over the next 30 days, and beyond."</p> | |
| <p> "We applaud Actuate's decision to offer their expertise and resources | |
| to Eclipse and to join QNX, Intel and IBM as a Strategic Developer," | |
| said Dan Dodge, president and CEO of QNX Software Systems. "Actuate's | |
| efforts to broaden the spectrum of tools and technologies available on | |
| the Eclipse platform to include business intelligence and reporting will | |
| enhance productivity and help span all levels of application development."</p> | |
| <p><b>To Find Out More</b><br> | |
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| BIRT will be available on the Eclipse Foundation website for public review | |
| and comment over the next 30 days. To review the proposal and provide | |
| feedback please visit <a href="http://www.eclipse.org" target="_top">www.eclipse.org</a>. | |
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| More information is available at <a href="http://www.actuate.com/corporate/corporateresources.asp?ArticleId=7256" target="_blank">www.actuate.com/corporate/corporateresources.asp?ArticleId=7256</a>.<br> | |
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| <td align="left" valign="top" bgcolor="#0080C0"><b><font color="#FFFFFF" face="Arial,Helvetica">About | |
| Eclipse</font></b></td> | |
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| <P> The Eclipse Foundation is a not-for-profit, member-supported corporation | |
| that hosts community based open-source projects. Eclipse creates | |
| royalty-free technology and a universal platform for development | |
| tools integration, modeling, testing and functionally-rich application | |
| construction. Eclipse based offerings give developers freedom of | |
| choice in a multi-language, multi-platform, multi-vendor supported | |
| environment. Eclipse delivers a dynamic plug-in based framework | |
| that makes it easier to create and integrate technology, saving | |
| time and money. By collaborating and sharing core integration technology, | |
| technology providers can concentrate and focus on areas of expertise | |
| and differentiation. The Eclipse Platform is written in the Java | |
| language and comes with extensive plug-in construction toolkits | |
| and examples. It has already been deployed on a range of development | |
| workstations including Linux, QNX, Mac OS X and Windows-based systems. | |
| Full details of the Eclipse Foundation and white papers documenting | |
| the design of the Eclipse Platform are available at <a href="http://www.eclipse.org" target="_top">www.eclipse.org</a>.</p> | |
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| <td align="left" valign="top" bgcolor="#0080C0"><b><font color="#FFFFFF" face="Arial,Helvetica">About | |
| Actuate Corporation</font></b></td> | |
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| <P> Actuate Corporation is the world leader in Enterprise Reporting | |
| Applications that ensure 100% adoption by users. Actuate's Enterprise | |
| Reporting Application Platform is the foundation on which Global | |
| 9000 organizations (companies with annual revenues greater than | |
| $1 billion) and packaged application software vendors develop intuitive, | |
| Web portal-like reporting and analytic applications that empower | |
| 100% of users with decision-making information. These applications | |
| are deployed inside and outside the firewall to improve corporate | |
| performance across a range of business functions including financial | |
| management, sales, human resource management, and customer self-service. | |
| When tested against other business intelligence products, Actuate's | |
| Enterprise Reporting Application Platform has been proven to offer | |
| industry-leading scalability and the lowest Total Cost of Ownership. | |
| Actuate has 2,900 customers globally in a range of industries including | |
| financial services, pharmaceuticals, insurance, and distribution | |
| services, as well as the government sector. <br> | |
| <br> | |
| Founded in 1993, Actuate has headquarters in South San Francisco, | |
| Calif., and has offices worldwide. Actuate is listed on the NASDAQ | |
| exchange under the symbol ACTU. For more information on Actuate, | |
| visit the company's web site at <a href="http://www.actuate.com" target="_blank">www.actuate.com</a>.<br> | |
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| <div align="center">Barbara Reichert<br> | |
| Reichert Communications for Actuate Corporation<br> | |
| barbara@reichertcom.com<br> | |
| 415.296.5130<br> | |
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| Eclipse Foundation<br> | |
| Barbara Stewart<br> | |
| Patterson & Associates<br> | |
| barbara@patterson.com<br> | |
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