IONA Annnounces IONA Mainframe Integrator 2.0 With Industry Leading Support for Web Services

Business Wire, Oct 10, 2001

Business/Technology Editors

WALTHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 10, 2001

New Version of Integration Software Enables Web Services for Mainframe

Applications; Delivers Shorter Development Cycles and Increased

Investment Protection

IONA(R), the leading e-Business Platform provider for Total Business Integration(TM) (NASDAQ: IONA), today announced the IONA Mainframe Integrator(TM) version 2.0. This new release of IONA Mainframe Integrator supports the integration of the vast inventory of mainframe applications into new enterprise and e-Business applications.

The IONA Mainframe Integrator is used by large companies around the world who are increasing their return-on-mainframe investment by turning their OS/390 and z/OS applications into easily accessible services. For these companies, a service-oriented architecture is the most effective means to integrate their mainframe solutions with their newly developed Web-based applications. These companies are also in position to take advantage of new Web services standards to further extend the value of their mainframe assets.

"IONA sets the standard in the mainframe integration market by connecting mainframe systems to the expanding world of e-Business and Web services integration," said Maurice Martin, product director for IONA's enterprise and mainframe integration products. "IONA Mainframe Integrator makes the process of integrating existing mainframe business applications simple and effective."

"IONA's Mainframe Integrator allows us to have multiple technology generations in a more flexible system which ensures shorter development cycles and investment protection," stated Martin Prater, head of technology management and common middleware with Credit Suisse Financial Services.

"No other platform middleware vendor, excluding IBM, expresses a similar level of commitment to IBM mainframes and can display a wider array of customers," according to Gartner Group, a leading international IT research firm. "By 2003, IONA Technologies will emerge as the main alternative to IBM as a supplier of J2EE technology for composite applications on zSeries (S/390) platforms."(1)

IONA Mainframe Integrator 2.0 is a powerful, standards-based mainframe integration solution native to the OS/390 - z/OS environment. It transforms applications running in CICS, IMS, batch and other mainframe environments into well-defined services accessible throughout the enterprise and provides a unique and full support for COBOL and PL/I - the languages of mainframe systems and developers. Existing application owners can use their current skills to quickly and easily expose existing business services, and offer appropriate new composite features and functionality that are immediately usable by developers working in other languages and in other environments.

The capabilities of the IONA Mainframe Integrator will be showcased at the Gartner Group Symposium IT EXPO in Orlando, October 9-11 at Booth #5012 and at the Gartner Application Integration Conference in Baltimore, October 22-23 at Booth #4. IONA's John Rymer, Vice President of Product Marketing will speak on Thursday October 11, 2001 at 1:30 PM at the Gartner Group Symposium IT EXPO on "Integrating Mainframe Applications with Web Services."

Availability:

The IONA Mainframe Integrator will be available at the end of October 2001.

(1) Source - IONA Defies the Middleware Giants - 23rd Aug. 2001 - Massimo Pezzini

About IONA

IONA is the leading e-Business Platform provider for Total Business Integration(TM) with more than 4,500 customers worldwide including a majority of the Global Fortune 500 and leaders in the aerospace, financial, ISV, manufacturing, retail and telecommunications industries. IONA(R) is dedicated to providing customers and partners enterprise-class e-business solutions that define reliability, efficiency and return on investment. The IONA e-Business Platform(TM) includes enterprise application and business-to-business integration (B2Bi) solutions, a Java 2, Enterprise Edition(TM) (J2EE)-certified application server, as well as innovative Web services, Java(TM), and CORBA(R) development tools. Founded in 1991, IONA (NASDAQ: IONA) is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland with U.S. headquarters in Waltham, Massachusetts. The company had revenues of $153 million in 2000 and employs more than 900 people in 30 offices worldwide. Please visit www.iona.com for more information.

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