Vitria Appoints Oracle Veteran as Executive Vice President of Worldwide Operations; John Wheeler to Drive Sales, Consulting and Alliances.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 4, 2001

Vitria (Nasdaq:VITR), a leading integration server provider, today announced the appointment of John Wheeler as executive vice president of Worldwide Operations. Wheeler previously spent seven and a half years at Oracle Corp., most recently as senior vice president of consulting. Prior to Oracle, Wheeler held executive management positions at Nextel Communications, Tandem Computers and Rockwell International.

"In the first phase of Vitria's development, our early success enabled us to quickly grow annual revenues to $100 million," said JoMei Chang, president and CEO of Vitria. "We are now firmly focused on the next phase of our development -- growing annual revenues from $100 million to $1 billion. A key challenge

faced by all enterprise software companies in this phase is building a highly scalable global infrastructure. John's extensive operational experience, coupled with his incredible track record in helping customers be successful, will be invaluable to us in this phase."

"I see many exciting parallels between the database market and the integration software market," said Wheeler, executive vice president of Operations for Vitria. "The opportunity to build an enormously successful enterprise software company around application integration is unmatched. My goal is to help Vitria leverage this huge opportunity across every major geography and vertical market, and establish the company as the undisputed leader of the integration software space."

Vitria also announced today that Bob Berry, another Oracle veteran, has been appointed as vice president, North America Sales, reporting into Wheeler. Prior to Vitria, Berry was president and CEO of Ponte Communications. Previously, Berry held senior sales executive positions at Oracle Corp. and Tandem Computers.

About Vitria

Vitria Technology, Inc. is a leading integration server provider. Vitria BusinessWare integrates applications and automates mission-critical business processes within and across the extended enterprise, reducing time to market, shortening lead times, lowering operating costs, and increasing customer satisfaction. Vitria is a global software company with over 25 offices in North America, and international offices in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Korea, United Kingdom, Singapore, Spain, Switzerland and Taiwan. Vitria is a publicly traded company (Nasdaq:VITR) based in Sunnyvale. For more information, call 408/212-2700, visit the company's Web site at www.vitria.com or send email to [e-mail].

This press release includes forward-looking statements, including statements relating to future revenue growth, goals and future business opportunities that are subject to risks, uncertainties and other factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those referred to in the forward-looking statements. Such factors include, but are not limited to, failure to meet financial and product expectations of analysts and investors, risk as related to market acceptance of Vitria's product and alliance partner's products, deployment delays or errors associated with these and new products of Vitria and partners, hardware platform incompatibilities, need to maintain and enhance certain business relationships with system integrators and other parties, ability to manage growth, activities by Vitria and others regarding protection of proprietary information, release of competitive products and other actions by competitors and economic conditions in either domestic or foreign markets. These and other risks related to Vitria are detailed in Vitria's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended Dec. 31, 2000, filed with the SEC on March 29, 2001, and in Vitria's quarterly reports on Form 10-Q as filed with the SEC. Vitria does not undertake an obligation to update forward-looking statements.