Librados Joins ObjectWeb Consortium and Announces Support for JOnAS

Business Wire, Nov 10, 2003

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

SAN RAMON, Calif. & GRENOBLE, France--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 10, 2003

Librados Continues Support for Open Source with ObjectWeb's JOnAS

Application Server to Further Drive the Prohibitive Costs

out of the Application Integration Marketplace

Librados Inc., a leading provider of J2EE-standards based application integration software, recently joined ObjectWeb, an international not-for-profit consortium focused on open-source middleware. As a corporate member of the consortium, Librados will develop privileged relations with the members of the ObjectWeb community, starting with the JOnAS team.

Librados is planning to start distributing the JOnAS J2EE application server shortly. Librados has already ported all of its technology to work out-of-the box with JOnAS. The first customer deployments are expected before the end of the year.

Using the Librados Enterprise Integration Component Server (EICS) and family of pre-built JCA Adapters, Java developers can now perform simple or complex application integration quickly and easily from JOnAS. Librados is driving down the cost of application integration by offering either royalty-free source code to independent software vendors (ISVs) or extremely low-cost software to customers with its pure J2EE product offering on JOnAS.

Christophe Ney, President of ObjectWeb's Executive Committee said: "As a not-for-profit organization, ObjectWeb is committed to foster the adoption of open-source middleware in the industrial world. We are delighted to welcome Librados, whose recent joining is a recognition of the unique quality of ObjectWeb platforms, starting with JOnAS. Being backed by major distros and by innovative added-value distributors like Librados, we are confident that our approach will keep seducing an ever increasing number of enterprise decision makers".

Adoption of open-source J2EE application servers is gaining traction in the corporate world. Historically, it was the grassroots support of the developer community that propelled open-source J2EE into IT departments but rarely into a production environment. This is changing. In the current economic environment IT executives are taking a close look at free, open source J2EE application servers, where the standard allows them to move applications from one Java application server to another, with little modification.

JOnAS is a clean-room implementation of the J2EE specifications delivered under the Lesser GNU Public License (LGPL). Librados adds enterprise class functionality to the JOnAS application server. This will help reduce costs associated with application integration and make J2EE more accessible to a wider range of organizations.

"Our decision to support JOnAS was easy," said Librados' CEO, David Richards. "Our customers are making it clear that they want fully supported Open Source application servers. With open source leaders Red Hat and SUSE, both now providing support for JOnAS, we feel this is a solution that will gain wide-spread adoption in the enterprise".

Mr Richards will be a keynote speaker at the ObjectWeb conference held on November 20-21, 2003 in Rocquencourt, France. The title of his speech is "Open-Source and Commoditizing J2EE: The Effects on Application Integration". For more information see: http://www.objectweb.org/conference2003/

About Librados EICS and JCA Plus Adapters on JOnAS

The Librados suite of application integration products allows backend enterprise application functionality to be integrated and exposed into a J2EE application server or web server environment as XML, web services, JSTL, JAXB or an ISV's own proprietary format. Librados is driving the prohibitive cost out of EAI by offering a unique source code license purchase option that allows ISVs to embed source code in their products and resell them with only a minimal up-front license cost, no royalty fees and comprehensive maintenance and support. Librados software is also available to end customers and systems integrators on a per server license basis.

Partners are able to leverage JOnAS 3.3 which supports J2EE 1.3 including EJB 2.0, JTA 1.0.1, JDBC 2.0, JCA 1.0, JMX 1.0, JNDI 1.2.1, JMS 1.0.2b, JavaMail 1.3, Servlet 2.3, JSP 1.2 specifications.

About Librados

Librados provides high quality, cost-effective and easy to implement J2EE standards based application integration software to meet the real-time integration needs of today's Web-enabled enterprise. The Librados suite of application integration products allows backend enterprise application functionality to be integrated and exposed into a J2EE application server or Web server environment as XML, Web services, JSTL, JAXB or an ISV's own proprietary format. For more information about the Librados suite of application integration software, visit www.librados.com.

About ObjectWeb

Founded by Bull, France Telecom and INRIA, ObjectWeb is a not-for-profit international consortium of leading enterprises and research organizations that have joined efforts to produce next generation open-source Middleware. ObjectWeb's goal is to bring to Real-Time Enterprise independence, quality, and robustness with the best performance/cost ratio that it requires. ObjectWeb targets alternative solutions to proprietary products addressing e-business, EAI, data connectivity, grid computing, and enterprise messaging. Based on Open Standards, ObjectWeb's middleware includes application servers, components, frameworks and tools. ObjectWeb's "cost killer" middleware includes JOnAS - an open-source implementation of J2EE specification.