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Commerce One selects Progress SonicMQ to power Marketsite Portal Solution

Johannesburg, 13 Sep 2000

Commerce One, the leader in global e-commerce solutions for business, has selected Progress SonicMQ e-business messaging server, from Progress Software, a leading supplier of technology for building e-business solutions, for Commerce One`s MarketSite Portal Solution.

MarketSite Portal Solution allows corporations and market makers to build open electronic marketplaces and link them to Commerce One Global Trading Web, the extensive worldwide B2B trading community.

SonicMQ provides a massively scalable and highly reliable transport for the exchange of business-critical information over the Internet.

"SonicMQ will now be used to power the largest global B2B exchanges and will be deployed at tens of thousands of customer sites worldwide," says Rick Parry, managing director of Progress Software SA.

"Global e-commerce depends on a reliable messaging infrastructure that can scale to support tens of thousands of trading and handle millions of transactions per day," says Charles J. Donchess, Commerce One executive vice president and chief strategy officer. "We selected Progress SonicMQ as part of Commerce One`s strategy to incorporate best-of-breed technology into the MarketSite platform, enabling us to offer, what we believe, is the most robust e-commerce solutions to our customers."

Through SonicMQ, messages, which can range from simple purchase orders to complex CAD documents, may be instantly and securely delivered over the Internet by using sophisticated routing algorithms to determine the fastest delivery path and ensure high system availability.

"As new trading partners or communities are added to the Commerce One Global Trading Web, the SonicMQ-based infrastructure provides access to all new destinations without requiring any local configuration or application changes," says Joseph Alsop, Progress Software co-founder and president.

"SoniqMQ will help speed the progress of global trade to the Web," says Parry.

MarketSite Portal Solution allows corporations and Internet market makers to build open electronic marketplaces and link them to the Commerce One Global Trading Web. This comprehensive set of products and services enables real-time, interactive transactions between trading partners, suppliers, service providers and market makers. Through the use of SonicMQ and an XML-based transaction infrastructure, value-added business services such as auctions, content management, payment services and logistics can be rapidly deployed and leveraged on e-marketplaces.

"Today`s emerging B2B e-marketplaces demand ubiquitous connectivity, seamless integration, massive scalability and performance, and the flexibility to process and add new trading partners and trading groups quickly without sacrificing ," said Steve Garone, International Data Corporation program vice president. "Commerce One already boasts a significant number of users and is projecting trading communities that could approach many tens of thousands of users. Selecting SonicMQ to address their rigorous demands is a significant proof point for the scalability of Progress Software`s JMS product."

"We believe SonicMQ is the only messaging solution that can deliver the scalability, performance and reliability required for e-business," adds Parry.

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Progress SonicMQ

Progress SonicMQ is a leading provider of e-business messaging, the infrastructure required for the reliable transport and exchange of business-critical data over the Internet. SonicMQ natively supports Internet standards and is based on the Java Message Service (JMS) specification, which provides a common set of interfaces, messaging concepts and programming strategies. SonicMQ has been chosen by many leading e-commerce companies and has won numerous awards, including Java Pro Magazine`s Readers Choice Award for Best Java Messaging Tool, Best Java Middleware from attendees at the SIGS Conference for Java Development, and a World Class Award from Java Developer`s Journal.

Commerce One

Commerce One is the leader in global e-commerce solutions for business. Through its products, portals, and services, Commerce One creates access to worldwide markets, allowing anyone to buy from anyone, anytime, anywhere. The Commerce One Global Trading Web(tm) is the world`s largest business-to-business trading community. Comprised of many open e-marketplaces, the Global Trading Web provides unprecedented economies of scale for buying organisations, suppliers, and service providers worldwide. For more information see www.commerceone.com.

Progress Software Corporation

Progress Software Corporation is a global supplier of software products and services for developing, deploying and managing business applications moving to the Internet. Progress Software Corporation offers messaging servers, application servers, databases, and application development and management products. Progress has had an official presence in South Africa since January 2000, when it bought back its licensing rights from Realtime with a view to expanding its market share locally and in other African countries. For more information see www.progress.com.

Progress Software Corporation`s partners include more than 2,000 application service providers (ASPs) and independent software vendors (ISVs) who supply annually over $5 billion in Progress(r)-based applications and related services. Progress Software Corporation`s products are used by over 10,000 organisations across 100 countries worldwide, including 60% of Fortune 100 companies.

Progress is a registered trademark and SonicMQ is a trademark of Progress Software Corporation. Commerce One, Global Trading Web, GTW, BuySite and MarketSite.net are either trademarks or registered trademarks of Commerce One, Inc. All other trademarks and / or servicemarks contained herein are the property of their respective owners. Java and all Java-based marks are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the U.S. and other countries.