HP and IONA, working together to extend, enhance and optimize the information assets of the enterprise

| IONA is the leading provider of High Performance Integration technology for critical systems with more than 4,500 customers worldwide. IONA's software solutions are used to create corporate IT infrastructures that connect business applications and middleware subsystems from various vendors into a strategic federation. |

| Working together, HP and IONA deliver high performance integration solutions that allow complex IT organizations to implement critical, ROI driven projects with an adaptable infrastructure which can lay the foundation for a strategic Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA). SOA and standards based technologies reduce the integration risks and show results quickly. |

| IONA provides HP with a complete middleware portfolio that embraces and complements existing HP software partners, fully consistent with HP's stated goals of providing customers with either a full stack or "best in class" a la carte approach to infrastructure. The IONA portfolio, in conjunction with HP hardware and services, provides the best possible infrastructure solutions to compete against IBM and Sun. |

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