Vitria to Provide Red Hat's JBoss Enterprise Application Platform for Newly Launched Open SOA Integration Suite

Best-of-Breed Partnership Provides Flexibility and Freedom of Choice

RALEIGH, N.C -

Vitria Technology, Inc., a leading provider of business process integration solutions, and Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading open source solutions provider, today announced a collaboration to accelerate service-oriented architecture (SOA) solutions to the marketplace. Vitria will offer Red Hat's open source JBoss Enterprise Application Platform with Business Accelerator™, its newly launched open SOA integration suite. Both companies will provide service and support.

Business Accelerator aligns today's business need for speed with IT's need to implement the right technology. It offers freedom of choice and flexibility to build a best-of-breed solution by leveraging Vitria's proven expertise in business process integration software, technology capabilities provided by industry-leading partners, as well as the customer's existing infrastructure. JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, launched today by Red Hat, is an integrated, tested, and certified offering combining JBoss Application Server, Hibernate, and JBoss Seam into a single distribution for deploying and hosting applications and web services.

We give customers the freedom to choose individual SOA components to create the best solution for their particular needs, commented Dale Skeen, Chief Executive Officer of Vitria. The new Vitria products are designed to co-exist in a heterogeneous environment so customers can leverage their existing infrastructure investments. The addition of JBoss to our community of complementary solutions enables us to ensure that customers have the ability to choose the best of breed when they choose our products.

Vitria has a long history of enabling enterprises to leverage the Internet for agile business and transformation, so we're pleased that the next generation of their business process integration solution will leverage our JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, said Pierre Fricke, director of product line management, SOA Products, Red Hat. We look forward to working closely with Vitria to bring Business Accelerator to market and deliver an exceptional customer experience.

About Red Hat, Inc.

Red Hat, the world's leading open source solutions provider, is headquartered in Raleigh, NC with over 50 satellite offices spanning the globe. CIOs have ranked Red Hat first for value in Enterprise Software for three consecutive years in the CIO Insight Magazine Vendor Value study. Red Hat provides high-quality, low-cost technology with its operating system platform, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, together with applications, management and Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) solutions, including the JBoss Enterprise Middleware Suite. Red Hat also offers support, training and consulting services to its customers worldwide. Learn more: http://www.redhat.com.

About Vitria

Vitria Technology, Inc. is the industry's leading privately-held business process integration company. Known for its innovation, the company offers Business Accelerator, the most flexible SOA integration suite on the market, plus the award-winning BusinessWare® B2B integration platform - delivering both state-of-the-art legacy, and SOA-based process integration solutions for the enterprise. To maximize customer productivity, the company offers high-value productized applications and frameworks that automate and simplify complex processes, including Resolution Accelerator™, the leading solution for resolving business process exceptions. Vitria's customer base includes global 2000 organizations such as AT&T, Bell Canada, BellSouth, Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, BP, BT, DaimlerChrysler Leasing, Generali, Nissan, Reynolds & Reynolds, RBC Financial Group, Sprint, U.S. Department of Defence and Veterans Health Administration.

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