IONA Names Bruce Ryan to Board of Directors

"We are delighted Bruce is joining IONA's board and will alsoserve as Chairman of the Audit Committee," said Peter Zotto, CEO,IONA. "Bruce brings a wealth of software industry related experienceto IONA. His finance expertise and strategic counsel will besignificant assets as we continue to deliver the SOA infrastructureour customers use to generate better ROI, modernize their IT systemsand lower total operating costs, thereby providing sustainableperformance for our shareholders."

"I'm excited to be joining IONA's Board of Directors at a timewhen the company is well positioned to take advantage of the keytrends that are shaping the enterprise software landscape," explainedMr. Ryan. "IONA is demonstrating real leadership in Service OrientedArchitecture and the Open Source Software model, and I look forward tobeing an integral part of IONA's future growth and success."

Mr. Ryan currently serves on the boards of Kronos Incorporated andKVH Industries, and previously held board positions with AxedaSystems, CNT Corporation, Enterasys Systems, Inrange TechnologyCorporation, Perceptive Bio Corp., Ross Systems and TarantellaCorporation. He has held a variety of senior management positions inthe high technology industry, most recently as executive vicepresident and chief financial officer of Global Knowledge Network, aprovider of information technology learning services andcertifications. Mr. Ryan was also executive vice president and chieffinancial officer for Amdahl Corporation and held a variety of seniorexecutive and financial positions at Digital Equipment Corporation. Hereceived a B.S. in Business Administration from Boston College and anM.B.A. from Suffolk University.

About IONA

For more than a decade, IONA(R) Technologies (NASDAQ: IONA) hasbeen a world leader in delivering high-performance integrationsolutions for Global 2000 IT environments. IONA pioneeredstandards-based integration with its CORBA-based Orbix(R) products.Artix(TM), IONA's extensible Enterprise Service Bus, enables existingenterprise systems to be integrated with an organization's commoninfrastructure components. IONA's sponsorship of the ObjectWeb Celtixopen source ESB is a natural extension of the company's history ofsolving integration problems by leveraging open standards anddistributed architectures.

IONA is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland, with U.S. headquartersin Waltham, Massachusetts and offices worldwide. For additionalinformation about IONA, visit our Web site at http://www.iona.com.

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