JBoss Enterprise Middleware Suite Gains Traction in Healthcare; Top Healthcare Providers Turn to JBoss Open Source Software for Cost-Effective SOA Platform.

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 gaining traction in the healthcare industry. This growing momentum verifies that as the healthcare industry faces increasing medical costs, the benefits in savings millions of dollars on software licenses is not only justified but needed. Currently, nearly 25% percent of JBoss customers are in healthcare and rely on JBoss to meet their enterprise middleware needs.

"Healthcare IT managers are under strict budgets and face significant pressure to provide the best applications and most efficient solutions at a reasonable cost," said Brad Murdoch, vice president of services, JBoss, Inc. "JEMS allows them to deliver on that demand with market-leading middleware products that save developers time, can be mixed and matched or used a whole to build applications, and come with no software license fees. Because we recruit the best technical talent from around the world, JBoss is proud to stand behind its products and support staff 100 percent."

JEMS is free to download and use under the terms of the open source LGPL. The JEMS microkernel architecture lets third party middleware products plug into it and allows it all to run across operating systems and hardware. In healthcare this is a significant advantage over proprietary offerings, which are monolithic in nature and deny customers the ability to use preferred technologies to support application development, communicate with databases and manage the logic driving the flow of data through applications and organizations.

Healthcare Moves to JBoss

Keith Willard, Vice President, Architecture, McKesson Provider Technologies, McKesson Corporation said: "The open source/service support model offered by JBoss fits well with the McKesson technology direction of lowering our customers TCO while maintaining high quality. Core JBoss technology we rely on is the application server and Hibernate object relational framework."

"SOA is a big part of our enterprise architecture and most of our applications include JEMS on some level," said Rob DiMarco, director of software development, Health Market Science. "We love the flexibility JEMS offers and also the fact that we can view the source code and see a problem first hand, allowing us to make any changes needed and saving our developers a significant amount of time and stress. JBoss continues to impress us in providing innovative products that continually fit our needs."

JBoss' continued popularity in healthcare mirrors its success across many industries. According to a recent OnJava survey, JEMS' JBoss Application Server leads among all products in its category, proprietary and open source alike, with 40 percent market share for new deployments. In addition, other JEMS products lead the market 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, validating JBoss as a top innovator in middleware.

"We turned to JBoss when we needed to migrate our internal Physician Web Portal and all Data Warehouse Web Applications from a proprietary Web server," said Kris Lundell, Principle Integration Engineer, University of Utah Health Care. "Not only was everything easy to implement and converted seamlessly, we also found that JBoss support service engineers were with us every step of the way to make sure the transition was successful. The JBoss support team was extremely helpful, capable and attentive to our needs."

Additional leading healthcare companies building and deploying enterprise applications on JEMS include Agfa, Allina Hospitals and Clinics, Coventry Healthcare, Cleveland Clinic Foundation and Information Data Management. For more information about JEMS and JBoss Subscriptions, visit http://www.jboss.com/services/profsupport.

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 market's 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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