IONA and BroadVision Expand Alliance With Java 2 Platform Enterprise Edition -J2EE- Technology

Business Wire, Nov 15, 2000

Business/Technology Editors

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

IONA(R), the Enterprise Portal Company(TM), (NASDAQ:IONA) today announced an extension to the company's existing alliance with BroadVision, Inc. (NASDAQ:BVSN), a leading worldwide supplier of personalized e-business applications. BroadVision will integrate IONA's Orbix(R) and iPortal Application Server(TM), a J2EE(TM)-certified e-business platform, with BroadVision One-To-One Enterprise(R) application platform.

BroadVision One-To-One Enterprise provides the foundation for BroadVision's comprehensive suite of e-business applications. BroadVision recently announced One-To-One Enterprise Version 6, which includes J2EE technology support (including EJB(TM), JSP and servlet support) that enables complete interoperability between BroadVision applications and third-party J2EE technology-based application servers such as the IONA iPortal(TM). The integration of IONA's Orbix and J2EE technology will provide BroadVision customers with an open, standards-based integration and development platform for the deployment of flexible e-business applications.

"J2EE is the standard for e-business development, and BroadVision One-To-One Enterprise Version 6 provides customers with an open architecture and a variety of J2EE development choices," said Cliff Apsey, vice president, Solutions Marketing for BroadVision. "IONA's market-leading Orbix technology has been part of our e-business application suite for years, and today's announcement provides our customers with a modular solution that can address their e-business development and integration needs."

"I am pleased to extend our long-standing relationship with BroadVision," said Patrick O'Brien, vice president of product strategy at IONA. "BroadVision and IONA have helped mutual customers become e-businesses, and today's alliance will help us extend our combined offerings to a larger audience through the IONA iPortal Application Server, our market-leading J2EE-compatibile platform."

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 is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland with US headquarters in Waltham, Massachusetts. The company had revenues of $105 million in 1999 and employs more than 750 people in 30 offices worldwide. For more information, please see http://www.iona.com.

IONA and Orbix are registered trademarks, and the Enterprise Portal Company, iPortal Suite and iPortal Application Server are trademarks of IONA Technologies. BroadVision is a registered trademark and BroadVision One-To-One is a trademark of BroadVision, Inc. in the United States and other countries. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.