IONA and LogicBlaze Announce Collaboration on Open Source ESB Projects; Celtix and ServiceMix ESBs to Deliver Unified Open Source JBI Implementations

Business Wire, Sept 27, 2005

DUBLIN, Ireland & WALTHAM, Mass. & MARINA DEL REY, Calif. -- IONA(R) Technologies (NASDAQ: IONA), a world leader in high-performance integration solutions for mission-critical IT environments, and LogicBlaze, Inc, a leading provider of Open Source integration solutions, today announced cooperation between the Celtix and ServiceMix open source projects. Celtix is the open source Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) sponsored by IONA and hosted by the ObjectWeb Consortium. ServiceMix is the open source ESB supported by LogicBlaze.

"The collaboration between Celtix and ServiceMix is important in building a strong and unified ecosystem dedicated to delivering open source ESB technology for Service Oriented Architecture infrastructure," said Eric Newcomer, CTO, IONA. "This collaboration will drive adoption of a best of breed approach to ESB and help eliminate the concerns developers may have over making a single technology choice to support their current and future SOA infrastructure requirements."

Celtix and ServiceMix will contribute code to each other's projects and integrate so that each project may reuse and redistribute the other's source code. Both Celtix and ServiceMix incorporate implementations of the Java Business Integration (JBI) standard, helping to ensure interoperability between the two projects and between deployed Celtix and ServiceMix applications.

"As a provider of Open Source integration solutions, LogicBlaze's mission is to empower IT organizations without imposing limitations," explained James Strachan, founder and chief architect at LogicBlaze. "The collaboration between ServiceMix and Celtix is an excellent illustration of this principle in action, and an example to our customers of the greater flexibility and adaptability that Open Source integration solutions offer."

About IONA

For more than a decade, IONA(R) Technologies (NASDAQ: IONA) has been a world leader in delivering high-performance integration solutions for Global 2000 IT environments. IONA pioneered standards-based integration with its CORBA-based Orbix(R) products. Artix(TM), IONA's extensible Enterprise Service Bus, enables existing enterprise systems to be integrated with an organization's common infrastructure components. IONA's sponsorship of the ObjectWeb Celtix open source ESB is a natural extension of the company's history of solving integration problems by leveraging open standards and distributed architectures.

IONA is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland, with U.S. headquarters in Waltham, Massachusetts and offices worldwide. For additional information about IONA, visit our Web site at http://www.iona.com.

About LogicBlaze

LogicBlaze, Inc. (http://www.logicblaze.com) provides development, services and support for Open Source business integration solutions including the ActiveMQ messaging platform and ServiceMix Enterprise Service Bus. LogicBlaze's open, standards-based solutions give IT organizations scalable, secure, high performance, real-time integration capabilities. LogicBlaze is based in Marina del Rey, California. For further information about LogicBlaze's applications development, training, incident-based support, and subscription options, please call 888-215-8135 or visit http://www.logicblaze.com.

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