CollabraSpace Applauds BEA Service Infrastructure Product Strategy

Service Infrastructure Designed to Help Move Customers' Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA) Efforts from Pilot to Production

Annapolis, Md. — June 16, 2005 — CollabraSpace™, a leading provider of web-based collaboration solutions for government and commercial enterprises, today announced its support for a new Service Infrastructure product strategy introduced by BEA Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: BEAS). Developed to help increase business agility while reducing IT cost and complexity, the Service Infrastructure products from BEA are designed to help companies manage the service-oriented architecture (SOA) lifecycle and swiftly assemble composite applications and processes in heterogeneous environment. BEA Service Infrastructure product family is designed to help companies make the transition from pilot to full enterprise-wide production of their SOA. CollabraSpace and BEA work together to provide customers with an integration of collaboration and infrastructure software solutions designed to help customers to run their businesses more efficiently.

SOA is a software design approach that is designed to take the discrete business functions contained in enterprise applications and organizes them into interoperable, standards-based services. These services can be combined and reused in composite applications and processes to meet business needs. Service infrastructure is a new category of enterprise software designed to help enable the successful deployment of SOA in business environments by allowing services to be discovered, secured, managed and assembled into composite applications and processes � regardless of the underlying technology.

"CollabraSpace and BEA work closely together to achieve the same business objective � to provide customers with a powerful, secure, real-time, open standards collaboration solution designed within the infrastructure of one of the world's leading integrators," said George Holland, director of federal sales for CollabraSpace. "Customers need a range of high-value applications such as collaboration and are demanding bundled solutions. Our partnership can help to differentiate both companies, benefiting end-users with a dynamic collaboration solution within the context of the BEA infrastructure. Most importantly, this solution can be made available within days rather than requiring a lengthy lead time required by most systems integrators."

CollabraSpace tools and technologies are designed to accommodate custom collaboration solutions. Each tool can be configured as a separate component and combined in a way that makes sense for individual organizations. Collectively, the components are known as CollabraSuite, a set of graphic building blocks that can be used in a web-based portal or to create a Java application.

CollabraSpace also provides J-Foundry which delivers revolutionary new capabilities for software developers in the J2EE environment. Built on industry accepted best-of-breed design patterns, J-Foundry provides a powerful integrated solution for rapidly building robust applications in the J2EE environment.

Sevice Infrastructure Helps Move SOA from Pilot to Production

Customers gravitate to SOA's modularity and flexibility, which is designed to help them to mix and match IT resources in a "virtual" infrastructure that is integrated while not being locked into a single vendor's IT stack. SOA also reflects a move from thinking about IT in an "application" context to thinking about IT as a "services" delivery business � helping to enable IT departments to create, assemble and deliver new services more quickly for use by employees, customers, partners and suppliers. As a new approach to enterprise IT implementation and application development, SOA can break down business applications and features into "services" � specific pieces of functionality � which can be efficiently built, combined, adapted and reused.

Many customers are already using their application infrastructure software (application servers, integration servers, development tools and portal software) to build and deploy their early SOA projects. As SOA moves from pilot to production, companies have found that they need new infrastructure that is designed to help them to quickly compose, deliver, configure and manage these services. Customers typically encounter this once they have built and deployed more than 50 services, which can result in a "services sprawl" that requires constant integration and can be difficult to scale. They also need new composition tools that work like an "assembly line" for building cars, in addition to traditional coding tools they used for "building car parts." Service infrastructure is a new category of enterprise software designed to help enable businesses compose, configure and reuse technology assets to meet business needs in a more assembly line model.

About CollabraSpace
Headquartered in Annapolis, Maryland, CollabraSpace is an authority on web-based collaboration solutions for a wide variety of customers that have dispersed workforces. These customers include large government organizations such as NSA, NGA and Defense Department elements, as well as large commercial accounts. The company develops and provides secure web-based collaboration software and platforms that include audio/video sharing, document sharing and storage, whiteboarding and instant messaging, as well as a J2EE application development platform. More information about CollabraSpace can be found at www.collabraspace.com.

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