CMP Media's ChannelWeb Review Names OpenSpan Platform 'Most Extensive Client-Side Integration Solution'

Business Wire, April 21, 2008

OpenSpan Platform Receives Recognition as a Powerful Tool for Integrating Applications on the Desktop

ATLANTA -- OpenSpan, Inc., the enabler of the New Enterprise Desktop, today announced that the OpenSpan Platform was named "Most Extensive Client-Side Integration Solution" in a recent ChannelWeb product review. The March 24, 2008 review is the latest in a series of third-party endorsements of the OpenSpan Platform as an essential tool for integrating, automating, extending and service-enabling applications across the enterprise desktop.

"OpenSpan did what nobody ever thought -- it developed a groundbreaking driver that wedges itself between Windows system files and Windows applications," writes Mario Morejon, senior technology editor for ChannelWeb. "But there's more; OpenSpan added quite a few other integration technologies so that Windows applications can merge with Web applications, .Net and Java applications, Web services and various green screen platforms. The OpenSpan solution is the most extensive client side integration solution examined by the Test Center... This development tool can be of tremendous help to those solution providers that are not developers or lack the resources and expertise integrating applications."

The OpenSpan Platform is the industry's only software platform that transcends traditional server and user interface integration technologies by leveraging the interactions between applications and the underlying operating system. This dramatically simplifies the integration process across both legacy and modern application platforms, including Web services. It also allows enterprises to build business process automations that span multiple environments, including desktop applications.

In the last six months, OpenSpan has received a 2008 Editors' Choice Award from Redmond magazine, the authoritative, independent voice of the Microsoft IT community, as well as a 2007 Product of the Year Award from TMC's Customer Interaction Solutions[R] magazine.

About ChannelWeb

ChannelWeb serves individuals and organizations in the "technology channel," including IT solution providers, VARs, integrators and consultants. It provides IT channel news, reviews and analysis, along with interactive tools, sourcing options, a partnering database, discussion forums and more. In March of 2007, the Websites for CRN and VARBusiness magazines were combined with ChannelWeb to provide a single 'portal' for the solution provider audience. ChannelWeb is located online at www.crn.com.

About OpenSpan, Inc.

Global 2000 enterprises leverage the OpenSpan Platform to integrate applications, automate business processes, extend functionality and build new composite applications in order to realize immediate value on their IT investments. OpenSpan and its partners utilize the company's unique approach to integration to accelerate service-oriented architecture (SOA) deployments and increase enterprise desktop productivity. The award-winning OpenSpan Platform received the 2007 Product of the Year Award from Technology Marketing Corporation's (TMC[R]) Customer Interaction Solutions magazine as well as the 2008 Editors' Choice Award from Redmond magazine, the authoritative, independent voice of the Microsoft IT community. A venture-backed company, OpenSpan is headquartered in Alpharetta, GA. More information about OpenSpan is located online at www.openspan.com.