IONA And Delphi Group Host Enterprise Portal Video Webcast

Business Wire, August 15, 2000

Business/Technology Editors

WALTHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 15, 2000

Leading E-Business Infrastructure Provider Announces Additional

Webcasts Covering the Full Spectrum of Enterprise Portal Development

and Implementation

IONA(R), the Enterprise Portal Company(TM), (NASDAQ:IONA) today announced the launch of a live video Webcast series dedicated to educating businesses on the benefits of enterprise portals. Delivered through a broadcast services agreement with Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO), the series will highlight the integration, development and Web presentation issues associated with creating an enterprise-wide e-business strategy.

The series will begin on Tuesday, August 22, 2000 @ 11:30 EDT with "Enterprise Portals - The Future of Your E-Business." The Delphi Group's Hadley Reynolds will begin the session with an overview of the e-business landscape, the concept of enterprise portals, and a checklist for developing a portal strategy. Bob Potter, IONA's Executive Vice President of Business Operations, will follow Reynolds' market overview and analysis with an in-depth presentation of IONA's iPortal(TM) enterprise portal solution. A question & answer session will immediately follow the presentation. To register for the Webcast and view the live event through Yahoo!(R) Broadcast, visit: http://webevents.broadcast.com/iona/announcement0600/home.asp

"IONA's iPortal solution has been well received by current customers and a host of new prospects," said Ed Gaudet, vice president of worldwide marketing at IONA. "However, many organizations remain unaware of the benefits of enterprise portals. Our goal is to help businesses realize their needs for an e-business solution, understand the benefits of enterprise portals, and develop a solution that will scale as their businesses change."

IONA also announced today that it will follow-up the event on August 22, 2000 with a series of Webcasts through the end of 2000. Topics for upcoming Webcasts include:

-- "Advanced Architecture for e-business"

-- "Building Standards Based Enterprise Portals"

-- "Building Enterprise Portals for Java/EJB

-- "Architecting e-business Applications using CORBA"

For more information, please visit: http://www.iona.com/webcasts.htm

About IONA

IONA, the Enterprise Portal Company, is a leading provider of e-business infrastructure that helps organizations build and deploy enterprise portals, Internet commerce sites, and other large-scale distributed applications. IONA supports a full diversity of languages, including Java and C++, and distributed computing technologies, including SOAP, XML, EJB, J2EE, CORBA, Microsoft's Windows DNA 2000 and IBM OS/390, CICS and IMS. Founded in 1991, IONA Technologies is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland with US headquarters in Waltham, Massachusetts. The company had revenues of $105 million in 1999 and employs more than 700 people in 25 offices worldwide. For more information, please see www.iona.com.

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