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Virtuas and Hyperic Announce Apache Geronimo Alliance

World-Class Organizations Partner Together to Offer Enhanced Apache Geronimo Monitoring and Management Functionality

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 15, 2006--Virtuas Open Source Solutions, the premier provider of enterprise-level support and enablement services for Apache Geronimo and other leading open source software, and Hyperic, a leading provider of open management solutions for IT operations, announced today a strategic alliance to provide improved management and monitoring capabilities for Apache Geronimo.

"As customers increasingly turn towards the use of Apache Geronimo in their corporate environments, they are realizing that a combination of 'best of breed' technologies together with 'best practices' in architecture and design is a key to their success," said Matt Filios, President of Virtuas. "Virtuas is pleased to work with Hyperic to offer unsurpassed products and services to the Geronimo community."

Working together with Virtuas to enhance product performance, the Hyperic HQ Apache Geronimo plug-in is now available to customers seeking enterprise-class manageability solutions combined with the Apache Software Foundation's J2EE Application Server. In addition, the companies will continue to work together to evolve features and functionality both within Hyperic and Apache Geronimo technologies.

"As part of our commitment to providing customers with complete management solutions for their entire open source infrastructure, we are excited about our partnership with Virtuas," says Javier A. Soltero, CEO of Hyperic. "By providing this enhanced functionality for Geronimo, we provide customers with enterprise-quality choices for their open source middleware and the ability to deploy with confidence."

A live "demo" of Hyperic HQ for Geronimo, along with additional information on Hyperic HQ, will be available for viewing at the Virtuas booth (#1520) at this year's JavaOne conference in San Francisco, Calif., from May 16 - May 18. In addition, both organizations will be co-sponsoring "Apache Geronimo Live!", an event to celebrate the project on May 17 at the W Hotel in San Francisco from 6:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.

About Hyperic Inc.

Hyperic provides open source systems monitoring and management software that reduces the workload for operations teams at the world’s biggest web companies, including Microsoft, CNET Networks, hi5 Networks, Contegix, Rackspace’s Mosso, and more.

Its award-winning Hyperic HQ software auto-discovers and updates asset inventory and allows operations teams to perform cross-platform monitoring, diagnostics and control from a remote, web-based console, helping them more quickly pinpoint, correct, and prevent problems at every major layer—including hardware, networks, virtualization and applications.

Founded in 2004 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, Hyperic is a private company funded by Accel Partners and Benchmark Capital.

About Virtuas Open Source Solutions, LLC

Since 1999, Virtuas has provided the Global 2000 with world-class enterprise software solutions. By providing knowledge enablement services in Consulting, Education, Development and other support offerings around leading Open Source Java software including Tomcat, Geronimo, Spring, Hibernate, JBoss and JSF/MyFaces, Virtuas empowers organizations by imparting open source software expertise and enabling self-sufficiency within IT. For more information, visit: www.virtuas.com.

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