IONA Positioned in the Visionaries Quadrant of the Integrated SOA Governance 2007 Magic Quadrant

Business Wire, Jan 14, 2008

Evaluation Based on Completeness of Vision and Ability to Execute

DUBLIN, Ireland & WALTHAM, Mass. -- IONA[R] Technologies (NASDAQ: IONA), a world leader in distributed service-oriented architecture (SOA) infrastructure solutions for performance-demanding IT environments, today announced it has been positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the Visionaries quadrant in the 'Integrated SOA Governance Technology Sets, 2007 Magic Quadrant'1 report.

Good governance is becoming a key requirement for successful SOA. In response to this market trend, IONA added SOA governance capabilities to its Artix[TM] suite of advanced SOA infrastructure products. Artix Registry/Repository was introduced in March 2007 to offer customers a SOA governance solution differentiated by its unique ability to drive and streamline the deployment of services into a distributed SOA network, unlike other governance solutions that only serve as a static archive.

"Our positioning in the Visionaries quadrant by Gartner is recognition of IONA's differentiated approach to meeting customers needs for achieving SOA success," said Peter Zotto, CEO, IONA Technologies. "Effective SOA governance requires more than a static record of services. The ability to actively govern and manage those services according to the policies and contracts that control their usage is vital. Artix Registry/Repository offers customers the highest level of active service governance across their SOA."

Artix Registry/Repository is designed for use in performance-demanding, heterogeneous IT environments and can be deployed in an incremental manner and extends across our open source product line, FUSE. The product delivers, service network provisioning, SOA validation and visual service management to Global 2000 customers deploying distributed SOA in the enterprise.

About the Magic Quadrant

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About IONA Artix

IONA Artix is a suite of advanced SOA infrastructure products that enables customers to deploy SOA in a truly distributed manner. Featuring componentized, technology-neutral SOA infrastructure products that work together or independently, IONA Artix allows customers unprecedented flexibility in SOA adoption. These products include Artix ESB, Artix Registry/Repository, Artix Orchestration, Artix Data Services, Artix SOA Works (tooling) and technology from our partners such as SOA Management from AmberPoint. IONA Artix is based on a lightweight, microkernel architecture that provides organizations with the ability to incrementally adopt SOA on their own terms, one step at a time.

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. IONA's Artix[TM], an advanced SOA infrastructure suite enables customers to leverage service-oriented architecture to streamline and modernize IT environments. The FUSE[TM] family of Open Source distributed SOA infrastructure products allow customers to take advantage of the innovation and cost-effectiveness of Open Source software with complete enterprise support and technical services.

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.

IONA, IONA Technologies, the IONA logo, Orbix, High Performance Integration, Artix, FUSE and Making Software Work Together are trademarks or registered trademarks of IONA Technologies PLC and/or its subsidiaries. CORBA is a trademark or registered trademark of the Object Management Group, Inc. in the United States and other countries. All other trademarks that may appear herein are the property of their respective owners.

1 Gartner "Magic Quadrant for Integrated SOA Governance Technology Sets, 2007" by L. Frank Kenney and Daryl C. Plummer, December 31, 2007.