Acer Sertek Becomes Strategic Reseller and Customer of Vitria; Leading Taiwanese System Integrator to Deliver Vitria Solutions to the East Asian Market

Business Wire, August 2, 2001

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

TAIPEI, Taiwan--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 2, 2001

Acer Sertek, a leading systems integrator for the greater Chinese market with over $600 million in annual sales, today announced it has become a strategic partner of Vitria (Nasdaq:VITR), a leading integration server provider. Under the agreement, Acer Sertek will become a strategic reseller of Vitria's integration server to the East Asian market. Acer Sertek has also internally purchased Vitria to serve as the integration backbone behind the company's RosettaNet B2B transactions. RosettaNet is a protocol for the manufacturing community.

"I'm very pleased Acer Sertek has become a strategic partner, furthering our company's market opportunity in my home country of Taiwan," said JoMei Chang, president and chief executive officer of Vitria. "Acer is a proven, trusted provider of solutions to the Chinese marketplace for the last quarter century, and we look forward to working with them for the next quarter century."

"We are recommending to customers what we use ourselves: Vitria," said J.T. Wang, chairman of Acer Sertek. "Vitria provides the most robust, scalable, and flexible integration server, the only one capable of handling enterprise application integration, business to business integration, and business process management in a single, unified architecture. As the Asian marketplace demands a solution that can scale from simple integration to the most complex, Acer Sertek will be proud to support Vitria as the best choice."

Vitria's superior integration server solution is well recognized by leading international research firms. According to a survey conducted by Forrester Research, Vitria is rated no. 1 in their integration server TechRankings(TM) when compared against competing integration server products from Tibco, SeeBeyond, webMethods and CrossWorlds. Another leading research firm -- Gartner Inc., has also named Vitria as a leading vendor in their Decision Framework for integration broker software.

About Vitria

Vitria Technology, Inc. is a leading integration server provider. Vitria BusinessWare integrates applications and automates mission-critical business processes within and across the extended enterprise, reducing time to market, shortening lead times, lowering operating costs, and increasing customer satisfaction. Vitria is a global software company with over 25 offices in North America, and international offices in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Korea, United Kingdom, Singapore, Spain, Switzerland and Taiwan.

Vitria is a publicly traded company (Nasdaq:VITR) based in Sunnyvale. For more information, call 408/212-2700, visit the company's Web site at www.vitria.com or send email to info@vitria.com.