OpSource Accelerates Software as a Service Application Development and Market Acceptance by Removing SaaS Integration Barriers

SANTA CLARA, Calif. (Business Wire EON) May 12, 2008 -- OpSource™ announced today that OpSource Connect™, the SaaS solution for Web services, has been named the “Most Innovative Software for the Software Industry” in the second annual SoftwareCEO/CompTIA Awards. The awards honor technological and business model breakthroughs that deliver innovations in software and content delivery. This is OpSource’s second SoftwareCEO/CompTIA award; it won the “Most Innovative Service/Business Model” in the inaugural SoftwareCEO/CompTIA Awards last year.

That's testament to the creativity and vibrancy of the software market, which continues to produce products and services that deliver real business value to customers. By winning a SoftwareCEO Software Innovation award, OpSource has demonstrated it is at the forefront of innovation. On behalf of the worldwide membership of CompTIA and SoftwareCEO, I am pleased to recognize their achievement.

OpSource Connect allows SaaS and Web companies to consume and publish multiple Web services across a common, secure platform — the OpSource Services Bus™ (OSB). OpSource Connect also solves the problem of SaaS integration by unifying SaaS applications in the “cloud” and with legacy enterprise applications behind the corporate firewall. SaaS applications will no longer function in silos; instead, they can be leveraged in new and expanded markets. This will change the way companies build and deploy SaaS applications, the way those applications interact, and how these SaaS applications reach new markets.

“This year’s SoftwareCEO Software Innovation Awards competition featured more than 90 entries, a record number,” said David Sommer, chief operating officer, CompTIA, and publisher of SoftwareCEO. “That’s testament to the creativity and vibrancy of the software market, which continues to produce products and services that deliver real business value to customers. By winning a SoftwareCEO Software Innovation award, OpSource has demonstrated it is at the forefront of innovation. On behalf of the worldwide membership of CompTIA and SoftwareCEO, I am pleased to recognize their achievement.”

OpSource Chief Technology Officer John Rowell said, “To be recognized by SoftwareCEO/CompTIA for the second year in a row is a great honor and further proof of the innovation that OpSource consistently delivers to the market. We are very proud of our ability to push the boundaries of SaaS application development while removing barriers to SaaS adoption by the enterprise. OpSource Connect accomplishes both of these objectives by allowing web services to be consumed and published as well as integrated in the cloud and behind the corporate firewall. Multi-application integration also allows companies to save time and resources and, more important, to reach new markets. We are very grateful to receive this award and will continue to deliver innovative products and services that accelerate the adoption of SaaS.”

About OpSource On-Demand

A comprehensive, award-winning Web Operations solution, OpSource On-Demand enables SaaS and Web companies to quickly and securely deliver their applications and services over the web to consumers and businesses alike. OpSource On-Demand includes:

• Best-in-class, scalable software, hardware and network infrastructure
• Application management and tuning
• 24x7 customer-branded end-user support
• 100 percent uptime guarantee for infrastructure and applications
• Best practices: SAS 70 Type II audited, HIPAA and PCI DSS compliance and salesforce.com AppExchange and WebEx certifications
• Enterprise services bus enabling easy integration of customer or third-party Web services that accelerate revenue generation
• Fully integrated PCI DSS-compliant billing solution, including customer on-boarding, pricing, payment and collections
• Application analytics that offer insight into the performance and usage of the on-demand application
• The industry’s only Success-Based Pricing^SM, a unit-based pricing model that allows businesses to begin with a modest minimum commitment and scale expenses as revenues increase

About OpSource

OpSource™ delivers software-as-a-service and Web applications for on-demand companies, with hundreds of applications, millions of users and billions of transactions supported daily. OpSource On-Demand™, the leading Web operations solution, is defining how Web-based software is delivered. By choosing OpSource as their Web application delivery partner, companies are freed from investing in and managing the complex and costly infrastructure and services necessary to deliver applications over the Web. They can instead focus their resources on developing, marketing and selling their applications and services. Further, by using OpSource Connect™ companies can leverage web services such as OpSource Billing™, OpSource Analytics™ and OpSource End-User Support™ and integrate their applications with other SaaS applications over the Internet as well as with enterprise applications behind the corporate firewall. OpSource On-Demand is suitable for companies at any stage of growth, with any type of on-demand application. OpSource is the only company to offer Success-Based Pricing^SM, a unit-based pricing model that allows businesses to begin with a modest minimum commitment and scale expenses as revenues increase.

Headquartered in Santa Clara, CA, OpSource has Web application delivery centers in Virginia, London and Bangalore. For more information about OpSource, visit www.opsource.net.

OpSource, OpSource On-Demand and the OpSource logo are trademarks of OpSource, Inc. Success-Based Pricing is a service mark of OpSource, Inc. All other trademarks and company names mentioned are protected by their respective owners.

About SoftwareCEO.com

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About CompTIA

The Computing Technology Industry Association (CompTIA) is the voice of the world’s $3 trillion information technology industry. CompTIA membership extends into more than 100 countries and includes companies at the forefront of innovation; the channel partners and solution providers they rely on to bring their products to market; and the professionals responsible for maximizing the benefits organizations receive from their technology investments. For more information, please visit www.comptia.org.

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