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Market leadership in CORBA

IONA is in the fortunate position of making significant contributions to and benefiting from CORBA's success. Today, IONA is the worldwide CORBA market share leader by at least a factor of two. In 13 years CORBA has evolved from a set of technology standards to one of the standard technologies employed by IT organizations and independent software vendors (ISV's) alike. We support an enormous range of operating and hardware platforms - involving everything from tiny embedded systems to mammoth mainframe integration projects - for a broad variety of industries and applications. IONA has a CORBA product for just about every requirement: the pure source-code ORB (Orbacus), the enterprise ORB (Orbix) and our native mainframe ORB, Orbix Mainframe.

Long Term Viability and Market Presence

IONA is the market leader in CORBA technology. It is a publicly-traded company with offices and customers around the world. IONA has $60 million in cash reserves and is dedicated to the advancement of the CORBA standard and its application to real-world problems. As far as Orbacus is concerned, IONA's support policy translates into technical support of the latest version of Orbacus until at least 2009. Some CORBA implementations are developed and supported by a mere handful of people while other free ORBs came to life as outgrowths of academic projects. Orbacus was purpose-designed for serious software developers with demanding distributed applications. In difficult economic times, particularly for small software companies, there is often significant risk in associating with vendors with limited resources. IONA's breadth and depth of CORBA products and expertise is mitigates against those risks and allows software companies to launch new products with unprecedented speed.