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PARIS, FRANCE - December 16, 2004 - Erlang-projects is today joining the Objectweb consortium to develop and extend its portfolio of middleware components. This agreement is expected to increase Erlang-projects' user base while allowing ObjectWeb to diversify and extend its middleware offer with robust, scalable and proven solutions.

Objectweb is seeing in Erlang-projects participation to the consortium a way to stimulate innovation. Cross-project synergies are anticipated that will consolidate ObjectWeb know-how in scalability and high performance. The first Erlang-projects of interest in this respect are:

Erlang-projects will submit J-EAI framework as an ObjectWeb project in the framework of the ObjectWeb Enterprise Service Bus initiative.

Mickaël Rémond, President, Erlang-projects, says: “ObjectWeb consortium is built upon the powerful mix of industrial strength solutions and highly innovative projects. We are proud to participate in and extend the ObjectWeb offer on both aspects.”

Emmanuel Cecchet, Chief Architect, ObjectWeb, says: “Erlang-projects brings to ObjectWeb expertise and know-how in the field of concurrency oriented programming. The contributions of the Erlang community will extend the ObjectWeb code base to cover new standards and provide building blocks for architectural issues such as scalability and interoperability.”

Founded in 2002 by Bull, France Telecom and INRIA, ObjectWeb is a consortium of leading companies and research organizations from around the world who have joined forces to produce next generation of open-source Middleware. ObjectWeb's goal is to provide Real-Time Enterprises with independent solutions which combine quality and robustness at the best possible performance/cost ratio. ObjectWeb targets alternative solutions to proprietary products for e-business, EAI, data connectivity, grid computing, and enterprise messaging. Based on open standards, ObjectWeb's middleware includes application servers, components, frameworks and tools. Examples of ObjectWeb's "cost killer" platforms are JOnAS - an open-source implementation of the J2EE specification, JORAM - a message-oriented middleware with JMS(TM) / SOAP connectors and Enhydra - a Java/XML application server.

Erlang-projects is a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting the Erlang language and the Open Transaction Platform (OTP) platform. OTP supports a programming paradigm called Concurrency Oriented Programming, thus making it particularly suitable for developing highly scalable, high-performance and fault-tolerant server applications.

Erlang/OTP was developed for 20 years by Ericsson before going open-source. It is used for example by Ericsson, Nortel, TebaBank, Correlatus and many others companies for industrial applications.

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