LIBRADOS EXPANDS EUROPEAN CUSTOMER BASE WITH ADDITION OF BRITISH AMERICAN TOBACCO AND NEOPOST

Industry-Leading Companies Select Librados for Application Integration

SAN RAMON, CA (PRWEB) December 9, 2003--Librados Inc., the royalty-free J2EE-standards based application integration software company, today announced that British American Tobacco, and Neopost have selected Librados Enterprise Integration Component Server (EICS) and family of pre-built JCA Adapters, to meet their requirements for application integration with systems such as SAP R/3, Oracle, MQ Series and others. Librados continues to add marquee customers to its growing customer list as it answers the need for low-cost, royalty-free, standards-based application integration solutions.

By using the Librados Enterprise Integration Component Server (EICS) and family of pre-built JCA Adapters, Librados customers can perform simple or complex application integration quickly and easily from any J2EE application server or a web server environment. Librados is driving down the cost of application integration by offering either royalty-free source code to independent software vendors (ISVs) or extremely low-cost software to customers with its pure J2EE product offering.

British American Tobacco is one of the worlds most international companies, employing over 85,000 people in 66 countries. We were highly impressed with the short-time and low-cost associated with implementing the Librados solution," said Kevin Poulter, application technology manager at British American Tobacco. Not only did this save us money immediately in license fees, but we are also able to leverage existing investment decisions because the product can be used on our various Java application servers without change."

Neopost ranks number one in Europe and number two worldwide in mailroom equipment and logistics systems. As we are planning to push over $1 billon in transactions per day through the Librados adapters; the product had to meet some very stringent security requirements," Said Roger Hoeberichts, Chief Architect The Librados product will be used in core mission-critical environments where performance and security are key -- thats why we selected Librados."

These customer wins clearly demonstrate the strength of our products and validate our unique business model," said David Richards, Librados CEO. Some of the biggest companies in the world are beginning to ask serious questions about the value they are extracting from high-cost application integration software. This is great news for Librados as we continue to empower customers and commoditize the adapter marketplace with low-cost, royalty-free standards-based software."

This demonstrates a way forward for other multinational corporations that are trying to extract value from their complex legacy environments," said George Lawrie, Senior Analyst of Forrester Research. Executives who are concerned about adapting their business processes to ever changing markets need not engage a re-engineering of transaction systems but can simply create extensions without compromising data integrity."

About Librados

Librados provides high quality, cost-effective and easy to implement J2EE standards based application integration software to meet the real-time integration needs of todays Web-enabled enterprise. The Librados suite of adapters for packaged-applications allows backend enterprise functionality to be integrated and exposed into a J2EE application server or Web server environment as XML, Web services, JSTL, JAXB or an ISV's own proprietary format. For more information about the Librados suite of application integration software, visit www.librados.com.

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