GAD Selected to Present Java Technology At Work Success Story At JavaOne 2001.

Business/Technology Editors

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 8, 2001

JavaOne(SM) Conference 2001--IONA(R), the leading e-Business Platform provider for Total Business Integration(TM), today announced that Gesellschaft fur automatische Datenverarbeitung eG (GAD), a leading German services company for banking, has been selected by Sun Microsystems to present an overview of their successful implementation of the Java(TM) 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE(TM)) based on IONA's e-Business Platform. Join Sun and GAD for a special presentation by Peter Danielczyk of GAD on Friday June 8, 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM Sheraton Palace - Grand Ballroom at JavaOne(SM), Sun's 2001 Worldwide Developer Conference, to be held June 4-8, 2001 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, California. The session titled Java(TM) Technology at Work (TS-1807) will outline GAD's brokerage architecture that is implemented on IONA's J2EE-compatible product.

Owned by its 350 members, GAD provides design, implementation, and operation of up-to-date information systems for member banks, trade, and service companies, as well as, application development as required by the member banks and co-operative companies. Currently, GAD has two Data Centres each delivering around-the-clock operational services. GAD's network includes 333 bank headquarters and 2,800 branches, equipped with about 70,000 terminals and managing 17 million accounts.

Since its introduction in 1999, the J2EE(TM) platform has become an industry standard. Take this opportunity to ask your questions about building reliable 24-7 business systems with the Java(TM) 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition. Learn about GAD's experiences and how in just 8 months they built and implemented a completely new technical architecture, which is capacity tested to handle 500,000 transactions per day for over 300 German banks. GAD will present and overview of their architecture, an architecture they believe to be the infrastructure of the future of e-business, leveraging the highly productive nature of component based application development.

"An application server, the modern form of platform middleware, is an essential component of the software infrastructure for the net-liberated organization," said Massimo Pezzini of Gartner, Inc. "While marketing messages of many vendors sound similar, the core competencies of these vendors remain different. These core competencies, manifested as the skills of the vendor's engineers and as the vendor's customer base, are the real and many times hidden from view -- differentiators between vendors."

"GAD's successful J2EE compatible solution demonstrates what the Java community has achieved in a short time frame. We are pleased to host the GAD J2EE Success Story at JavaOne 2001 to share with us their experiences," said Rick Salvetta, Group Product Manager for J2EE products Sun Microsystems.

About IONA

IONA is a leading e-Business Platform provider for Total Business Integration(TM). The IONA e-Business Platform provides users with a complete business solution for end-to-end business integration inside and outside the firewall. IONA's e-Business Platform includes a J2EE-compatible application server, mainframe and an enterprise application integration suite as well as XML web services, Java technology and CORBA development tools, and a business-to-business integration (B2Bi) platform. Founded in 1991, IONA is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland with U.S. headquarters in Waltham, Massachusetts. The company had revenues of $153 million in 2000 and employs more than 1000 people in 30 offices worldwide. Please visit www.iona.com for more information.

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