TSANet announces new members - Acopia Networks, JBoss, Inc. and Stratus Technologies, Inc. join multivendor support alliance

Business Wire, Jan 31, 2005

OVERLAND PARK, Kan. -- TSANet (Technical Support Alliance Network), the industry's largest vendor-neutral support alliance, today announced that three new members have joined its ranks. The new members are, Acopia Networks, the pioneer of Adaptive Resource Networking products, JBoss, Inc., the Professional Open Source company, and Stratus Technologies, Inc., a global provider of fault-tolerant computer servers, technologies and services.

"The industry continues to recognize the benefits of building relationships by using the TSANet framework," said Dennis Smeltzer, TSANet executive director. "Because TSANet is an industry standard solution, the time and cost of legal review and training is substantially reduced. Our latest members have joined TSANet and are participating in a variety of relationships. All of our members are able to take advantage of the benefits of TSANet in weeks rather than the months a company-proprietary, multivendor agreement can take," he concluded.

About Acopia Networks

Acopia Networks, headquartered in Lowell, MA, is the innovator of Adaptive Resource Networking platforms that provide a new foundation for intelligently managing the global distribution of data. Acopia's switches hide the "back end" complexity from users and increase the utilization of today's resources. The company was founded in 2002 by industry visionary and serial entrepreneur Cheng Wu and a team of talented engineers from companies such as Cisco Systems (NASDAQ: CSCO), EMC (NYSE: EMC), Network Appliance (NASDAQ: NTAP) and others throughout the high technology industry. Information about Acopia's products and services can be found at http://www.acopia.com.

About JBoss, Inc.

Through its Professional Open Source model, JBoss, Inc. is making open source a safe choice for the enterprise. JBoss provides resources, technology direction and core development for popular open source projects and stands behind them with enterprise-grade support and services. The JBoss Enterprise Middleware System (JEMS), built on the Professional Open Source model, includes leading technologies like Tomcat, Hibernate, JBoss jBPM, JBoss IDE and the JBoss Application Server, the industry's most popular J2EE open source application server in use, with over five million downloads. Companies like Corporate Express, La Quinta Hotels and Nielsen Media Research rely on JEMS for mission-critical enterprise applications. Partners who embed or bundle JEMS and resell JBoss services include Computer Associates, HP, Novell and Unisys. JBoss has headquarters in Atlanta, Ga. and Neuchatel, Switzerland. For additional information, please visit www.jboss.com.

About Stratus Technologies, Inc.

Stratus Technologies is a global provider of fault-tolerant computer servers, technologies and services, with more than 20 years of experience focused in the fault-tolerant server market. Stratus servers provide high levels of reliability relative to the server industry, delivering 99.999% uptime or better. Stratus servers and support services are used by customers for their critical computer-based operations that are required to be continuously available for the proper functioning of their businesses.

About TSANet

Founded in 1993, TSANet (Technical Support Alliance Network) is a worldwide, multivendor alliance that offers an industry-wide forum to facilitate servicing multivendor customers while providing an infrastructure for more efficient multivendor problem solving. Membership consists of more than one hundred software and hardware companies, including industry giants such as EMC, HP, IBM, Microsoft, Novell, Sun Microsystems, Unisys, and VERITAS. TSANet can be reached at (913) 345-9311 or at www.tsanet.org.

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