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Sun Microsystems and SeeBeyond Agreement Brings Practical SOA to Customers Broad Technology and Marketing Agreement Extends Reach and Capabilities of Sun Java(TM) Enterprise System with SeeBeyond ICAN 5 SANTA CLARA, Calif., Oct. 19 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Sun Microsystems, Inc., the inventor and leading advocate of Java(TM) technology, announced today a far-reaching technology and marketing agreement with SeeBeyond that features Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) solutions and composite application delivery via the Sun Java Enterprise System (Java ES). Under the agreement, SeeBeyond will port components of its SeeBeyond Integration Composite Application Network (SeeBeyond ICAN 5) Suite to the Sun Java Enterprise System, starting with its eGate(TM) Integrator 5 platform to the Sun Java System Application Server 8. The companies will initially focus on solutions for RFID and Portal application development, which will be jointly marketed and sold by Sun and SeeBeyond. "Sun has the most secure, scaleable and price performant Web Services platform in the industry for customers who are moving to Service-Oriented Architecture development and deployment," said Mark Bauhaus, Vice President, Java Web Services for Sun Microsystems. "SeeBeyond has leading products for enterprise integration, composite application creation, workflow, and Business Process Management services. Together, Sun's innovative Java Enterprise System and SeeBeyond's integration solutions deliver the highest productivity and most practical SOA-based customer integration solution available today." "Clearly, SOA is emerging as the preferred service delivery mechanism for forward-thinking IT strategists," said Jim Demetriades, Founder and CEO of SeeBeyond. "As customers standardize on the Java Enterprise System for their core infrastructure, it's only natural that they would extend this platform to include a complete SOA-based composite application development environment to drive their integration projects, thus improving core business operations, reducing development costs, minimizing risk and accelerating ROI." With both companies actively participating on the Java Business Integration specification (JSR 208), this partnership is based on a strong alignment around current and emerging industry standards such as JMS, Java Connector Architecture and BPEL. Subsequently, the SeeBeyond integration server suite is the only integration server suite vendor to have passed the Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE(TM)) Application Verification Suite (May 2003). The port of the SeeBeyond integration server suite to the Java System Application Server 8 lays the groundwork for advanced platform integration and SOA-based systems development, and supports the companies' objective to ensure customers receive the best performing and most reliable platform available. Composite-based Portal Application Development As part of this agreement, Sun and SeeBeyond are also partnering to deliver joint solutions around Sun's Java System Portal Server and SeeBeyond's ICAN 5 integration server. The joint solution will provide out-of-the-box integration between the Sun and SeeBeyond products including SeeBeyond's enterprise service bus (ESB) solution, eInsight(TM) ESB, to build composite applications for delivery through the Sun Java System Portal Server. Customers will receive pre-built portlets enabling them to easily develop portal solutions that feature business integration, composite application creation, workflow and business process management services. The joint portal solution is intended to automate business processes and unlock both the power of the data and functionality in existing backend systems. These capabilities will be showcased in the Java System Portal Server Reference Architecture. SOA-based Solutions for RFID Leading industry experts agree that RFID deployments can achieve considerable benefits, but to realize ROI, organizations must utilize the valuable data collected from RFID readers as an opportunity to drive improvements in business processes. Today's agreement between Sun and SeeBeyond is expected to drive advanced, Java technology-based solutions into the RFID market segment. The joint end-to-end offering features Sun's Java System RFID Software interoperating with the SeeBeyond RFID Composite Application Network solution offering. Sun's RFID software will process the high volume of RFID data coming in from the edge and integrate it with business application systems. The information is collected, then sent to the SeeBeyond platform for distribution to trading partners and enterprise backend systems, such as SAP or Oracle. The joint RFID solution will be available for viewing in Sun's RFID Test Center in Dallas, TX. About SeeBeyond Based on 15 years of software innovation and real-world experience in integrating systems across Global 2000 organizations, SeeBeyond (NASDAQ:SBYN) delivers the industry's first integrated composite application network built on a comprehensive integration platform. Beyond EAI, the SeeBeyond(R) Integrated Composite Application Network Suite(TM) helps organizations rapidly assemble and deploy enterprise-scale end-user applications built on existing systems and infrastructure to dramatically improve business operations. SeeBeyond has more than 1,900 customers worldwide, including ABN Amro, BHP Billiton, The Cleveland Clinic, Commerzbank, The Dial Corporation, DuPont, Florida Power & Light, Fluor Daniel, Fujitsu, General Motors, Halliburton, Hertz Corporation, HP, Lockheed Martin, Pfizer, Samsung, Sprint, Sutter Health and UnitedHealth Group. For more information, please visit http://www.seebeyond.com/. About Sun Microsystems, Inc. Since its inception in 1982, a singular vision -- "The Network Is The Computer" -- has propelled Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ:SUNW) to its position as a leading provider of industrial-strength hardware, software and services that make the Net work. Sun can be found in more than 100 countries and on the World Wide Web at http://www.sun.com/. SeeBeyond is a registered trademark of SeeBeyond Technology Corporation in the United States and select foreign countries. SeeBeyond Integrated Composite Application Network Suite is a trademark of SeeBeyond Technology Corporation. The absence of a trademark from this list does not constitute a waiver of SeeBeyond Technology Corporation's intellectual property rights concerning that trademark. All other brands or product names are trademarks of their respective owners. Sun, Sun Microsystems, the Sun logo, J2EE, Java, and The Network Is The Computer are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the United States and in other countries. FOR MORE INFORMATION: Laura Ramsey Kristi Rawlinson Sun Microsystems, Inc. SeeBeyond 978-842-4499 214-215-9030 http://www.sun.com/news Contact: This news release includes statements that are not historical in nature and as such are intended to be forward looking statements for purposes of the safe harbor provided by the Securities Litigation Reform Act. These statements, including those related to SeeBeyond porting components of the SeeBeyond product to the Sun product, future sales of the ported product, the success of driving solutions to the RFID market and development of the offering are statements based on SeeBeyond's current expectations, assumptions, estimates and projections, its industry and its future prospects. These statements are predictions, and actual events and results may differ materially from those forward-looking statements based on certain risks, including the success of the Sun and SeeBeyond agreement, market acceptance of the ported products, market acceptance and demand for SeeBeyond products and services, and the potential release of competitive products, among other factors. The forward-looking statements contained in this news release are also subject to other risks and uncertainties, including those more fully described in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission including its Annual Report filed on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2003, and its quarterly reports on Form 10-Q. SeeBeyond does not undertake to update any forward-looking statements. DATASOURCE: Sun Microsystems, Inc. CONTACT: Laura Ramsey of Sun Microsystems, Inc., +1-978-842-4499 or ; Kristi Rawlinson of SeeBeyond, +1-214-215-9030 or ; http://www.sun.com/news; or Web site: http://sun.com/

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