JBoss Signs Strategic, Multi-Level Partnership with Ten Art-ni

ATLANTA and TOKYO, March 16, 2006 -- JBoss, Inc., the Professional Open Source company, and Ten Art-ni (Tokyo Stock Exchange: 3744), Japan's leading open source technology integrator, today announced a strategic, multi-level partnership to promote enterprise deployments of the JBoss Enterprise Middleware Suite (JEMS) in the Japanese market. Ten Art-ni--whose deep Java and Linux expertise includes partnerships with Red Hat, IBM, HP, Fujitsu and Hitachi--becomes a JBoss premier-level systems inte grator, a premier-level authorized service partner and the first JBoss-authorized training partner in Japan.

"JBoss has become one of the best-known open source brands and an increasingly popular technology choice for our customers," said Nobuo Kita, president and CEO of Ten Art-ni. "This partnership is based on our joint belief in enterprise open source, a common business model to provide the best customer service possible and a best-of-breed technology approach. We are extremely pleased to now be one of JBoss' premier-level partners and the first to deliver the full JBoss training curriculum in Japan."

Under the terms of the agreement, Ten Art-ni will provide Level 1 and Level 2 customer support with the JBoss Subscription, system integration featuring JEMS technologies and the full JBoss training curriculum. JBoss will certify and validate Ten Art-ni middleware experts to teach JBoss training courses, fulfilling a growing demand in the Japanese market. In addition, JBoss will offer Ten Art-ni development support, comprehensive indemnification coverage and access to JBoss Operations Network (JBoss ON), the company's enterprise application management platform.

"With its track record and impressive caliber of partners, Ten Art-ni has proven its ability to roll out open source software into this rapidly growing market," said Marc Fleury, chairman and CEO, JBoss, Inc. "This partnership with Ten Art-ni is a critical milestone in JBoss' global expansion and will help us tap into the tremendous open source momentum in Japan. We couldn't have asked for a more experienced open source expert to partner with on these many important fronts."

Since its founding in 1997, Ten Art-ni has built its business on open source technologies. Ten Art-ni's corporate mission is to continually incorporate cutting-edge technologies into their offerings while addressing customer business challenges. Today, Ten Art-ni sells a range of Linux hardware and software products and provides Linux support, professional services and system development. As a JBoss partner, Ten Art-ni will be delivering the same solutions and services for JEMS.

JEMS is the most widely used open source middleware, with more than 9 million downloads. JBoss stands behind JEMS with comprehensive and high quality subscription support services, including 24x7 production support, training and consulting. Services are delivered directly by JBoss or through an extensive partner network that includes many technology leaders such as Dell and HP. Additional JBoss partners in Japan include NEC and Nomura Research Institute, Ltd. (NRI).

About Ten Art-ni  Corporation

Ten Art-ni was founded in 1997 to create customer-focused IT solutions using open source technologies. The company is known as the first public company to offer the open source technology solutions for their enterprise customers. They were financially backed by leading global technology and venture capital groups including: Otsuka Corp., Intel Pacific, Inc., NEC Corporation, Hewlett-Packard Japan, Ltd., SGI Japan, Ltd. and Oracle Corporation Japan before their successful IPO on the Tokyo Stock Exchange. With global company headquarters in Tokyo, Japan, the company provides pre-development research, analysis and system design to system development and support with a wide range of Linux and Java software and hardware that it sells throughout Asia. Additional information on the company is available in English at http://www.10art-ni.co.jp/english/

About JBoss, Inc.

JBoss, Inc., the global leader in open source middleware, offers simply the better way to transform businesses through a service-oriented architecture (SOA). As the market's leading open source platform for SOA, JEMS (JBoss Enterprise Middleware Suite) delivers proven performance in mission-critical environments and is backed by world-class support and service--all at a dramatically lower cost structure than proprietary systems. Fortune 500 companies such as Continental Airlines, MCI and Starwood Hotels & Resorts rely on Professional Open Source from JBoss, Inc. Certified partners offering JEMS and JBoss Subscriptions include Dell, HP, NEC, Novell, Sun Microsystems and Unisys. For more information, visit www.jboss.com.