Unisys Expands Relationship With JBoss to Help Companies Realize Benefits of Moving to Open Source Technology

Business Wire, June 23, 2005

BLUE BELL, Pa. -- Unisys Corporation (NYSE:UIS) announced today that it has become a JBoss Premier Systems Integrator. This strategic agreement will benefit companies that are looking to utilize Unisys consulting services to support their migration from proprietary enterprise application middleware to JBoss' open source solutions. JBoss, Inc. is a Professional Open Source company that is transforming the enterprise middleware landscape by combining the low-cost economics of open source software with the world-class development methodologies, support and accountability expected from enterprise software vendors.

"We're committed to providing our clients with the JBoss middleware implementation, migration and integration capabilities that best meet their business requirements," said Tom Elliott, president, Global Commercial Industries, Unisys. "Open source software is the next big disruptive technology. All companies across commercial industries and government organizations need to consider to what extent it can be deployed in their business to help gain significant value and competitive advantage. We are investing to help our customers, in a variety of industries, create IT infrastructure efficiencies and achieve competitively differentiating performance through JBoss and other open source solutions."

To accelerate Open Source software adoption, CIOs and IT managers need a trusted source of consulting expertise. Unisys, with its established support infrastructure and strong J2EE competence, offers onsite consulting services, ready to assist companies at every stage of application migration or implementation projects. Unisys consulting services span the entire portfolio of JBoss Enterprise Middleware System (JEMS) projects, including JBoss Application Server, Hibernate, Tomcat, JBoss Cache, JGroups, jBPM, jPortal and JBoss AOP.

The JBoss Premier Systems Integrator partnership further expands the Unisys and JBoss relationship:

--As a Certified Technology Partner, Unisys has the ability to incorporate JBoss technologies in its mission-critical products such as Communications Ensemble, a next-generation messaging platform.

--As a JBoss Authorized Service Partner, Unisys can provide support and training services to its customers on Unisys ClearPath and ES7000 servers. These servers provide Unisys clients with secure, reliable and highly scalable technology platforms at a significant cost savings over competing technologies.

--Now as a Premier Systems Integrator, Unisys will provide global consulting services that meet JBoss stringent technology competency requirements and plans to have more than 100 JBoss trained and certified personnel on staff.

"The signing of this strategic agreement with Unisys marks a new phase in our companies' successful partnership," said Tom Cooper, vice president, JBoss. "We share the same vision for enterprise IT environments, which is to be more responsive to changing business requirements while helping the enterprise to save time and money. The new Premier System Integrator relationship will advance and accelerate the work Unisys and JBoss have been doing over the past three years and help our joint customers consolidate applications and enable new business services while helping drive down the cost and complexity of managing their application infrastructure environments."

About JBoss, Inc.

Through its Professional Open Source model, JBoss, Inc. is making open source a safe choice for the enterprise. JBoss provides the resources, technology direction, core development and support services that enable popular open source projects to scale into enterprise-class open source software. These projects include JBoss Application Server, Hibernate, JBoss jBPM, JBoss Portal, JBoss Eclipse IDE and Apache Tomcat, which are core components of the JBoss Enterprise Middleware System (JEMS). Companies like Corporate Express, La Quinta and Nielsen Media Research rely on JEMS for mission-critical enterprise applications. Partners that support 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 Unisys

Unisys is a worldwide information technology services and solutions company. Our people combine expertise in consulting, systems integration, outsourcing, infrastructure and server technology with precision thinking and relentless execution to help clients, in more than 100 countries, quickly and efficiently achieve competitive advantage. For more information, visit www.unisys.com.

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