JBoss Appoints Oracle, i2 Sales Veteran to Lead Channel Strategy; Tom Cooper Brings 20 Years of Experience to New Role as Vice President of Channels

Business Wire, June 6, 2005

ATLANTA -- JBoss, Inc., the Professional Open Source company, today announced the appointment of Tom Cooper to vice president of worldwide channels. Drawing on more than 20 years of experience leading sales, marketing, alliances and field operations worldwide, Cooper will spearhead sales and channel strategy to drive worldwide adoption of the JBoss(R) Enterprise Middleware System (JEMS(TM)).

"In the last year, we have seen mass adoption of JBoss at the enterprise level, thanks in large part to our partners, who have been instrumental in propelling JBoss open source middleware across the chasm," said Marc Fleury, chairman and CEO, JBoss, Inc. "Tom will now be marshalling these efforts with our partners. His extensive experience in building partnerships and growing revenue will be indispensable, as we continue to build a customer-driven organization focused on making Professional Open Source a safe choice for the enterprise."

Previously, Cooper was group vice president at Oracle Corporation managing field operations and sales for the eastern half of the United States, where he was accountable for the sale of all products lines accounting for over $1.5 billion in revenue and 1,400 employees. While at i2 Technologies, Cooper held the position president of the Americas and oversaw all sales, consulting, support, education, marketing and field operations in North and South America. As executive vice president of worldwide field operations for EXE Technologies, Cooper was instrumental in leading the company to a successful IPO. Cooper started his career at Data General Corporation, where he spent 11 years in various sales positions and left as vice president of worldwide alliances. He holds a Bachelor of Science in computer science with a minor in marketing from Southwest Missouri State University.

"JBoss is changing the rules of software development, distribution and support, and seeing the market follow validates the tremendous success of Professional Open Source," said Cooper. "I look forward to working with this talented and dynamic team to build even more market share and establish JBoss as the middleware standard."

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 embedding JEMS and reselling 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.

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