JBoss Enterprise Middleware Suite Enjoys Rapidly Growing Adoption in Telecommunications; Telecom Operators, Equipment and Service Providers Worldwide Rely on JEMS for Enterprise Deployments.

ATLANTA -- JBoss(R), Inc., the Professional Open Source company, today announced that the JBoss Enterprise Middleware Suite (JEMS(TM)), the leading open source platform for service-oriented architecture (SOA), is rapidly becoming a standard among telecommunications companies. JEMS has become the market-leading middleware suite because it simplifies development of Enterprise Java applications, enabling telecom companies to accelerate time to market with flexible, cost-effective solutions. Leading telecom operators, equipment and service providers worldwide continue to choose JEMS over costly proprietary alternatives.

Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (EE) has become the base platform for most new development in telecom. As the telecom industry continues to grow and invest in new technologies such as voice over Internet protocol (VoIP), WiMAX and Fiber to the Premises (FTTP), the flexibility and power of JEMS microkernel-based architecture helps customers continue to bring to market innovative services and products at competitive price points. JEMS products are free to download under the business-friendly open source LGPL license and can be used alone, mixed and matched or as a whole to build and deploy multimedia applications, network management software and other specific telecom applications such as IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS), a new common platform for developing and delivering services.

Ubiquity Software, the leader in Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) technology adopted by Telecom Service Providers worldwide, is a JBoss Premier Certified Technology Partner that supports the JEMS platform to enable the development and deployment of converged real-time telephony and web applications on their carrier-grade SIP Application Server (SIP A/S).

"Our global carrier customers have chosen Ubiquity because they demand high availability and reliability from a SIP Application Server and the converged applications that run on it," said John Hart, vice president of product line management at Ubiquity Software. "The combination of Ubiquity's SIP A/S platform with JBoss' JEMS platform provides a best-in-class solution for our service providers and enterprise customers to develop, deploy and manage innovative services that combine voice, data, web or video capabilities into converged applications. As a JBoss Premier Certified Technology Partner dealing with real-time communications, it is crucial that any issues we have are resolved quickly, so JBoss Support Services are a valuable resource to our organization."

JBoss' popularity in telecom mirrors its success across many other sectors such as financial services, healthcare and retail. According to BZ Research, JBoss is the fastest growing runtime application platform in use, tying for market leadership in 2005 with 37 percent deployment. Other JEMS products lead their respective markets in terms of usage and are acknowledged by developers as best-in-class in their field, including the Hibernate(R) object/relational mapping engine and the Apache Tomcat servlet engine.

Brad Murdoch, vice president of services, JBoss, Inc., said: "Telecom is a fiercely competitive industry where time-to-market is critical for driving revenue. JEMS has become a platform for innovation for operators, equipment and service providers building cutting-edge networking applications and technologies. As the industry moves steadily toward additional IP-based services, JEMS' zero-cost license allows enterprises to ramp up quickly, accelerate development and improve developer productivity."

Leading telecom companies utilizing JEMS technologies include Citizen Telecom Services, Eurotel Praha, spol. s r.o., Pac-West Telecom, Inc., PT Jackarta Software Komunikasi, SIEMENS (Microwave Networks Business Units), StreamSage, Wire One Communications and XO Interactive, Inc., a division of XO Communications, Inc.

Support and Services

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About JBoss, Inc.

JBoss, Inc., the global leader in open source middleware, offers simply the better way to transform businesses through a service-oriented architecture (SOA). As the leading open source platform for SOA, JEMS (JBoss Enterprise Middleware Suite) delivers proven performance in mission-critical environments and is backed by world-class support and service--all at a dramatically lower cost structure than proprietary systems. Fortune 500 companies such as Continental Airlines, MCI and Starwood Hotels & Resorts rely on Professional Open Source from JBoss, Inc. Certified partners offering JEMS and JBoss Subscriptions include Dell, HP, NEC, Novell, Sun Microsystems and Unisys. For more information, visit www.jboss.com.

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