IONA Extends Leadership in Open Source with Sponsorship of The Apache Software Foundation

-- Company Demonstrates Commitment to Open Source Adoption and
Community Development --
DUBLIN, Ireland & WALTHAM, Mass.--(Business Wire)--
IONA(R) Technologies (NASDAQ: IONA), a world leader in distributed
service-oriented architecture (SOA) infrastructure solutions for
performance-demanding IT environments, today announced that it has
become a Silver Sponsor of The Apache Software Foundation. The Apache
Software Foundation (ASF) is a non-profit corporation dedicated to
consensus-based, collaborative software development. Financial
sponsorship will help ASF to acquire servers and hardware
infrastructure, purchase bandwidth and needed resources, and increase
awareness of ASF projects and incubating initiatives.

IONA's commitment to Open Source software is an integral part of
its 15-year heritage. With a high degree of Open Source community
involvement, IONA supports the efforts of its developers who are
members and contributors to a number of ASF projects.

Aiding the efforts for increased adoption of Open Source SOA, IONA
developers play key roles in the Apache ActiveMQ project, the Apache
ServiceMix project, the CXF project in the Apache Incubator, and the
Apache Camel project, a sub-project of ActiveMQ. IONA's distributed,
Open Source SOA infrastructure solutions, FUSE Message Broker, FUSE
ESB, FUSE Services Framework and FUSE Mediation Router, are built on
code developed in those ASF projects and are distributed under the
terms of the Apache License 2.0. IONA provides professional support,
consulting and training for enterprise customers looking to deploy
this Open Source SOA technology in their mission-critical business
applications.

"IONA is in a new era of leadership in standards-based integration
as we extend our commitment to and development of Open Source software
for mission-critical enterprise IT deployment," said Larry Alston vice
president and general manager of Open Source for IONA. "Community
developed software drives innovation across the Open Source movement
and is pivotal to its success. Our sponsorship of the Apache Software
Foundation underlines our commitment to upholding the principles and
open operations policies that are the foundations of successful Open
Source software projects. We look forward to supporting ASF and
continuing to bring the benefits of Open Source software together with
enterprise-grade support and certification to our enterprise
customers."

Further information about IONA's FUSE(TM) family of products is
available at http://open.iona.com, where the products are freely
available for download. The IONA Open Source Web site offers
discussion forums, wikis, tutorials, sample applications and
documentation designed to help users at all stages of their Open
Source adoption.

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.

IONA Technologies
David Roy, 781-902-8033
Investor Relations
ir@iona.com
or
Juliet McGinnis, 781-902-8051
Analyst Relations
juliet.mcginnis@iona.com
or
Tara Humphreys, (+353) 1-637-2146
Public Relations
tara.humphreys@iona.com

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