Resonate Delivers Application Performance Management For Sun ONE Platform; Resonate Commander Provides Support for Sun ONE Application Server and Sun ONE Web Server

Business Wire, Sept 18, 2002

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

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SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 18, 2002

Resonate Inc. (NASDAQ: RSNT), a leading provider of award-winning application performance management solutions for business-critical applications, today announced its commitment to support performance management capabilities for the Sun Open Net Environment (Sun ONE) platform, including the Sun(TM) ONE Application Server and Sun ONE Web Server. Resonate Commander will allow enterprises to extend these management capabilities by proactively locating, diagnosing, and resolving outages and performance bottlenecks within the Sun ONE Application Server and Sun ONE Web Server environments. Commander combines deep monitoring and control of distributed application components with comprehensive testing of end-user and business service levels to significantly reduce the frequency and duration of critical performance problems.

"Resonate can provide Sun ONE customers with a solution that can help them to protect their revenues by assisting IT administrators resolve performance problems faster," said Carla Dimond, Sun Microsystems, Inc. "Resonate shares the Sun ONE vision of offering a unified view of transactions and infrastructure to tie technology with a company's bottom-line business goals with its management solution."

The Sun ONE Application Server provides a robust Java(TM) 2 Platform Enterprise Edition (J2EE(TM)) e-commerce platform for the development, deployment and management of application services to a wide range of servers, clients and devices. The Resonate Command Module(TM) for the Sun ONE Application Server extends Resonate Commander to rapidly correlate and diagnose problems that impact end-users and business processes down to critical application components such as Java servlets and beans, system resources and database connections. The solution also takes local corrective actions such as starting or stopping processes.

The Sun ONE Web Server Enterprise Edition is a software product for developers engaged in building dynamic Web applications for e-commerce sites. The Resonate Command Module for the Sun ONE Web Server Enterprise Edition extends Resonate Commander to provide out-of-the-box statistics, events and actions related to the health and performance of the Sun ONE Web Server Enterprise Edition.

"Resonate is committed to supporting the Sun ONE platform," said Brad Jung, Director of Product Marketing and Product Management at Resonate. "Our solutions are optimized to manage critical applications running in Sun ONE environments so that transactions are completed and end-users receive the best possible performance."

Resonate is a member of the Sun ONE Partner Program, the Sun Developer Connection Program, and Resonate solutions are SunTone Certified.

Learn more about Resonate solutions for the Sun ONE platform by visiting us in the Partner Pavilion at the SunNetwork Conference September 18-20 in San Francisco, California.

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About Resonate

Founded in 1995, Resonate is the leading provider of application performance management solutions for business-critical application environments. The flagship Resonate Commander(TM) is the first and only application performance management solution that proactively locates, diagnoses and resolves outages and performance bottlenecks before they impact end-users or the business. Hundreds of customers worldwide including AT&T, AIG, Bank of America, Charles Schwab, Chase Manhattan Corporation, Citibank, DoubleClick, Eastman Chemical, E*TRADE, FedEx, France Telecom, Nippon Steel and UBS PaineWebber among others, rely on Resonate solutions. Resonate has strategic partnerships with industry leaders including BEA Systems, IBM, and Sun Microsystems.

Resonate is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. The company's common stock trades on NASDAQ under the symbol RSNT.

For more information on Resonate, visit http://www.resonate.com

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