AltoWeb Chief Architect Unanimously Voted to Eclipse Board of Stewards; AltoWeb Simplifies J2EE Application Production and Broadens Eclipse Audience.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

PALO ALTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 28, 2003

AltoWeb, Inc., the leading application production platform company, today announced that it has joined Eclipse as a supporting member by unanimous vote. Eclipse is an open community that implements the Eclipse Platform, an open-source, universal platform for tools integration. As a voting member of the Board of Stewards, AltoWeb's chief architect, Elli Albek, will participate in defining policies, practices, and standards for this open-source initiative.

"AltoWeb's combined visual production environment and runtime architecture extend a unique and strategic layer, complementing the other technologies that integrate with the Eclipse Platform," said Skip McGaughey, Chairperson of the Eclipse Board of Stewards. "AltoWeb's experience in application assembly and integration, and their ability to present an end-to-end view of the J2EE application lifecycle, brings Eclipse project managers a unique and valued point of view."

"A key initiative of Eclipse is simplifying J2EE and increasing the productivity of Java developers, with the ultimate goal of bringing J2EE to the desktop," commented Elli Albek from AltoWeb. "Because AltoWeb automates J2EE development and speeds application delivery, AltoWeb's participation on this board will add significant value to the Eclipse Platform, and will help bring the Platform to a much broader audience."

Eclipse establishes an open-source eco-system of royalty-free technology, an open universal platform for tools integration. Eclipse based tools give developers freedom of choice in a multi-language, multi-platform, multi-vendor supported environment. Eclipse delivers a plug-in based framework that makes it easier to create, integrate and use software tools, saving time and money. Integrated development environments, tools and new features plug-in to extend the core Eclipse Platform. Commercial support and offerings made with Eclipse technology are available from multiple sources for a variety of development platforms and deployment targets ranging from embedded computers to mainframes.

The Eclipse Platform has gained broad acceptance since its introduction in November 2001, with over 3.1 million downloads of the platform from the eclipse.org website. AltoWeb joins 29 other industry leaders on the Eclipse Board, including Borland, Fujitsu, Hewlett-Packard, Hitachi, IBM, Merant, Rational, Red Hat, and Serena.

About AltoWeb

AltoWeb, Inc. is the leading provider of application production platforms, dedicated to providing its customers and partners with the simplest, most productive, and flexible approach to delivering J2EE applications. Global 2000 companies, systems integrators, and independent software vendors rely on the AltoWeb(R) Application Platform to produce and enhance the applications they need, with the people they have, in much less time and at a lower total cost of ownership.

Built on open standards, the AltoWeb Application Platform delivers highly extensible and reliable software solutions that fully leverage the power of leading application servers including IBM WebSphere, BEA WebLogic Server, Borland Enterprise Server, and JBoss. Based in Palo Alto, California, AltoWeb is privately held with investments from Accenture Technology Ventures, NorwestVenture Partners, CIBC, MV Ventures, and individual investors. For more information or to download a free evaluation copy of the AltoWeb Application platform, visit http://www.altoweb.com.

AltoWeb has its corporate headquarters at 1731 Embarcadero Road, Palo Alto, CA 94303; telephone: [phone]; FAX: [phone]; e-mail: [e-mail].

About Eclipse

Eclipse has established an open-source eco-system of tools providers and consumers by creating technology and an open universal platform for tools integration. The open-source Eclipse community creates royalty-free technology as a platform for tools integration. Eclipse based tools give developers freedom of choice in a multi-language, multi-platform, multi-vendor supported environment. Eclipse delivers a plug-in based framework that makes it easier to create, integrate and use software tools, saving time and money. By collaborating and sharing core integration technology, tool producers can concentrate on their areas of expertise and the creation of new development technology. The Eclipse Platform is written in the Java(TM) language, and comes with extensive plug-in construction toolkits and examples. It has already been deployed on a range of development workstations including HP-UX(R), Solaris(R), AIX(R), Linux(R), MAC OS X(R), QNX(R) and Windows(R) based systems. Full details of the Eclipse community and white papers documenting the design of the Eclipse Platform are available at http://www.eclipse.org.

Note to Editors: AltoWeb is a registered trademark of AltoWeb, Inc. in the United States and other countries. AltoServer, AltoStudio, AltoManager, and AltoMonitor are trademarks of AltoWeb, Inc. in the United States and other countries. J2EE and Java are trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. All other trademarks referenced are those of their respective owners.