JBoss Group Announces Marketing Agreement with Librados Inc.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

SAN RAMON, Calif. and ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 23, 2003

JBoss Teams with Librados to Bring the Benefits of Real-Time Integration to the Most Popular Java-Based Open Source Application Server

JBoss Group LLC, provider of the most popular Java-based application server, today announced a co-marketing agreement with Librados Inc., a provider of J2EE-standards based application integration software. Under the agreement, Librados has joined the JBoss Preferred Affiliates(TM) Program. JBoss achieved more than 2 million downloads in 2002 alone, making it the industry's fastest-growing Java application server.

Through the partnership, using the Librados Enterprise Integration Component Server (EICS) and a family of pre-built JCA Adapters, Java developers can perform simple or complex application integration quickly and easily from the JBoss server or a web server environment. Librados is driving down the cost of application integration by offering either royalty-free source code to independent software vendors (ISVs) or extremely low-cost software to customers with its pure J2EE product offering on JBoss.

Marc Fleury, founder of JBoss.org and president of JBoss Group, said: "Librados' suite of application integration products will allow Java developers to extend and expose backend functionality to the JBoss server or XML and web services environments. Pairing Librados' sophisticated real-time integration software with our stable, scalable, application server, is a powerful, cost-effective combination for Java developers requiring a flexible, standards-based approach for web-enabling applications."

JBoss is a Java-based open source application server with support for J2EE. This enables rapid porting of J2EE-based applications to the free JBoss server. It is the most popular Java-based application server in use today and is on track to reach three million downloads in 2003.

"Many customers have saved money by using the JBoss application server, and now they no longer have to spend it on application integration," said Librados' CEO, David Richards. "This partnership gives customers and ISVs a low-cost, royalty-free application integration package. Librados and JBoss will continue to drive the high cost out of middleware."

"Although open source for complex integration middleware is still unproven, it is natural that open source application servers follow the same evolutionary path as mainstream application servers and begin to include integration features," said Benoit J. Lheureux, Research Director, Infrastructure and Architecture Group, Gartner. "We have long predicted the gradual commoditization of integration middleware such as adapters and the JBoss/Librados open source arrangement is further evidence of this trend and will help reduce the cost of integration, particularly for opportunistic IT projects."

About Librados EICS and JCA Plus Adapters on JBoss

The Librados suite of application integration products allows backend enterprise application functionality to be integrated and exposed into a J2EE application server or web server environment as XML, web services, JSTL, JAXB or an ISV's own proprietary format. Librados is driving the prohibitive cost out of EAI by offering a unique source code license purchase option that allows ISVs to embed source code in their products and resell them with only a minimal up-front license cost, no royalty fees and comprehensive maintenance and support. Librados software is also available to end customers and systems integrators on a per server license basis.

Partners are able to leverage JBoss 3.0, which supports the J2EE 1.3 standard. It also includes the basic EJB container and JMX infrastructure; JBossMQ for JMS messaging; JBossMX for mail; JBossTX for JTA/JTS transactions; JBossSX for JAAS based security; JBossCX for JCA connectivity; and JBossCMP for CMP persistence. In addition, JBoss affiliates have access to JBoss Group's professional services. JBoss consultants spend 50 percent of their time developing JBoss and 50 percent of their time consulting.

More information about the JBoss Preferred Affiliates Program is available at:

http://www.jboss.org/. More information about Librados is available at: http://www.librados.com.

About Librados

Librados provides high quality, cost-effective and easy to implement J2EE standards based application integration software to meet the real-time integration needs of today's Web-enabled enterprise. The Librados suite of application integration products allows backend enterprise application functionality to be integrated and exposed into a J2EE application server or Web server environment as XML, Web services, JSTL, JAXB or an ISV's own proprietary format. For more information about the Librados suite of application integration software, visit www.librados.com.

About JBoss Group

JBoss is an open source Java-based application server. With an average of 250,000 downloads per month, JBoss is the most downloaded Java-based application server in the industry. JBoss can be embedded in commercial products and is being used in production around the world. JBoss Group LLC is an Atlanta-based professional services company, created by Marc Fleury, founder and lead developer of the JBoss application server. JBoss Group brings together core JBoss developers to provide services such as training, support, consulting and documentation, as well as management of the JBoss software affiliate program. These commercial activities subsidize the development of the free JBoss server. For more information please see www.jboss.org.

JBoss is a registered trademark of Marc Fleury. Java, and J2EE are registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc., in the United States and other countries.