Arjuna Releases ArjunaMS 4.0, the Industry's Most Cost Effective High-Availability Enterprise Messaging Solution.

SAN FRANCISCO -- Full-Featured JMS Messaging with Built-in High-Availability and Unique Transactional Application Container for Event-Driven SOA at $2000 Per Server CPU 

Arjuna Technologies, one of the world's leading centers of expertise in reliable middleware, today announced general availability of ArjunaMS 4.0 with integrated high-availability (HA) support and the unique transactional Message-Driven Services (MDS) container. With this release Arjuna continues to deliver rock-solid Java messaging through industry-proven technology at a market beating price.

High-Availability support for business-critical systems - as organizations increasingly depend on enterprise messaging as the backbone for the extended enterprise, the reliability and availability of the messaging solution becomes critical. System downtime often directly results in loss of revenue. The new High-Availability support in ArjunaMS 4.0 ensures that the messaging infrastructure never loses a message and stays up and running despite software, hardware or network problems. Running in HA mode, ArjunaMS server instances collaborate to ensure continued service even in the presence of failures. Client applications continue to run normally during the failover process without any loss of messages. ArjunaMS 4.0 HA Server is simple to configure and deploy without the need for additional third-party software or expensive hardware solutions.

Event-driven SOA with the transactional Message-Driven Services container - ArjunaMS 4.0 leads the way for lightweight, event-driven, service-oriented architecture (SOA) with the inclusion of the innovative transactional Message-Driven Service (MDS) container. Business applications can be constructed as collections of services deployed in MDS containers which improves agility, reduces programming overhead, simplifies lifecycle management and maximises performance and reliability. The MDS container includes Arjuna's industry-proven transaction engine thereby allowing business components to interact with databases and other resource managers with guaranteed system integrity without the need for an application server.

"We've really raised the bar for cost effective, full-featured, standards compliant, enterprise-class messaging with this release," said David Ingham, CTO at Arjuna. "The new HA features make true fault-tolerant messaging available to a broader class of applications and customers and the MDS container shows real innovation as we combine our transactioning and messaging expertise to create a lightweight, event-driven SOA platform."

Pricing and Availability

ArjunaMS 4.0 is available immediately. Deployment licenses are priced at $2000 per server CPU and development licenses are $2000 per named developer. Free 30-day evaluation versions are available from http://www.arjuna.com.

Also this week, Arjuna is announcing updates to the Arjuna Transaction Service and the Arjuna+JBoss products. Arjuna+JBoss integrates Arjuna's transactioning and messaging technology with the popular JBoss application server.

About Arjuna Technologies

Arjuna Technologies is a leading independent supplier of standards-based middleware technology for reliable distributed systems. Arjuna offers transactioning and reliable messaging products for J2EE and Web services environments. Arjuna was created from the former Hewlett-Packard Arjuna Lab, HP's Centre of Excellence for transactioning, messaging and related technologies. Arjuna is privately owned and based in Newcastle upon Tyne, England. For further information visit http://www.arjuna.com.

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