BEA Systems

BEA Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: BEAS) is one of the world's leading e-business infrastructure software companies, with over 8,000 customers around the world, including the majority of the Fortune Global 500. BEA and its WebLogic brand are among the most trusted names in e-business. Businesses built on the award-winning BEA WebLogic E-Business Platform™ are reliable, highly scalable, and poised to bring new services to market quickly. BEA's e-business platform is the de facto standard for over 1,200 systems integrators, independent software vendors (ISVs) and application service providers (ASPs) to provide complete solutions that fast-track and future-proof e-businesses for high growth and profitability. Headquartered in San Jose, Calif., BEA has 90 offices in 30 countries.

www.bea.com

Borland

Today's Inprise combines the best of Borland, its long heritage of world-class development tools and intelligent middleware, with the strength of Visigenic's industry-leading object request broker technology. The result is a powerful new company uniquely positioned to capitalize and service the distributed enterprise computing marketplace. Inprise raises the competitiveness of its customers by radically simplifying the development, integration, deployment, and management of their enterprise applications.

www.borland.com

Eclipse Foundation

Eclipse is an open source community whose projects are focused on providing a vendor-neutral open development platform and application frameworks for building software. The Eclipse Foundation is a not-for-profit corporation formed to advance the creation, evolution, promotion, and support of the Eclipse Platform and to cultivate both an open source community and an ecosystem of complementary products, capabilities, and services.

www.eclipse.org

JBoss

JBoss, Inc. is dedicated to delivering on the vision of Professional Open Source. The company brings together core developers of the JBoss Application Server and related open source technologies, such as Tomcat, Hibernate and JGroups, to provide expert production and development support, training, consulting and documentation. JBoss has been downloaded more than four million times since its release in 2001 and is now deployed in nearly 30 percent of development and production environments, making it the industry's fastest growing Java-based application server in use. Companies such as Corporate Express, EA Games, LeapFrog and Nielsen Media Research use JBoss in production. Partners offering JBoss alongside or embedded in their products include Apple, Borland, IONA and webMethods. JBoss has headquarters in Atlanta, Ga. and Neuchatel, Switzerland.

www.jboss.com