IONA's Expertise and Unique Approach to SOA Highlighted at Leading Industry Events.

DUBLIN, Ireland & WALTHAM, Mass. -- IONA CTO Eric Newcomer Featured Speaker at Upcoming SOA Executive Forum and OMG Workshop

IONA(R) Technologies (NASDAQ: IONA), a world leader in high-performance integration solutions for mission-critical IT environments, today announced that CTO Eric Newcomer will participate as a featured speaker at upcoming Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) conferences sponsored by InfoWorld and Object Management Group(R) (OMG) respectively.

"If approached correctly, SOA can give companies a powerful means to generate greater ROI from existing assets, lower total operating costs and deploy highly flexible systems that are responsive to business change," explained Newcomer. "I'm pleased to have the opportunity to share IONA's experience and highlight how distributed SOA, deployed in an incremental manner, can produce both greater technical and business agility in an organization's IT systems."

On March 16, 2006, Newcomer will share his, and IONA's, significant industry experience and expertise at the "How Services Communicate" session at InfoWorld's SOA Executive Forum: Lessons from the Front Lines.

On March 27, 2006, at the OMG SOA, MDA & Web Services Workshop, Newcomer will discuss the technologies and standards applicable to SOA and how they can be successfully leveraged in real-world enterprise deployments. Newcomer's second OMG Workshop session on March 29 describes best practices for migrating to SOA in the enterprise, and will include information on how companies can start changing their thinking about IT to make their SOA implementations more successful.

Newcomer is an award-winning author on the subjects of SOA and Web services. He was a founding member of the XML Protocols Working Group at W3C, which produced SOAP 1.2, serves as co-chair of the WS-TX Technical Committee, and participates in the Service Component Architecture (SCA) initiative and the Eclipse SOA Tools Project.

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. Artix(TM), IONA's extensible Enterprise Service Bus, enables existing enterprise systems to be integrated with an organization's common infrastructure components. IONA's sponsorship of the ObjectWeb Celtix open source ESB is a natural extension of the company's history of solving integration problems by leveraging open standards and distributed architectures.

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.

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