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JackBe Announces Strategic Partnership Agreement with Rogue Wave® Software

JackBe’s Presto™ REA Platform, Coupled with Rogue Wave® Hydra Technology, Addresses Growing Demand for High-Performance SOA Applications

Chevy Chase, MD – October 3, 2006 – JackBe, the premier provider of Rich Enterprise Application (REA) solutions that integrate SOA and Ajax, today announced that it has completed a strategic partnership agreement with Rogue Wave Software.

The partnership recognizes and leverages the strong complementary fit between the Rogue Wave Software and JackBe product architectures.  Rogue Wave Software’s Hydra Suite delivers exponential performance and throughput improvements for critical software applications based on a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA).  JackBe’s Presto REA Platform combines and extends the SOA services produced by Hydra into highly interactive Ajax-based applications offering enterprise-grade reliability, scalability, and service governance.

“By directly consuming SOA services within powerful business applications, JackBe’s Presto extracts real business value from the investments being made by enterprises to create and expose SOAs and other server-side data,” stated Luis Derechin, CEO of JackBe. “We combine SOA and Ajax to deliver a new class of Web-based applications that increase productivity and optimize business activities for our customers.  By embedding components of Rogue Wave Software’s Hydra, our customers will also enjoy the reliability and performance they need to deliver high-value SOA-based applications.”

“We’re pleased to have JackBe as a partner,” said Cory Isaacson, President of RogueWave® Software. “Rogue Wave® Hydra is a high-performance SOA framework for mission-critical applications. JackBe’s Presto REA platform extends that same high level of performance as it consumes and combines the SOA services produced by Rogue Wave® Hydra to provide rich, interactive and scalable business applications to customers. I believe that the evolving partnership between Rogue Wave® Software and JackBe will help customers to deploy high-performance enterprise applications based on SOA and Ajax.”

Under terms of the agreement, JackBe can embed key components of the Rogue Wave Hydra Suite into its Presto REA platform, currently in beta testing.  The agreement also enables Rogue Wave Software to resell JackBe solutions as a complement to Hydra.

About JackBe’s Presto REA Platform
Presto addresses the needs of enterprises wanting to empower business units with more flexible and productive use of IT assets while maintaining stringent governance of information definition, security and processes. Presto directly binds to and consumes SOA services within powerful Ajax-based business applications in order to extract real business value from the investments being made by enterprises to create and expose SOAs and other server-side data. It also helps address the ‘long tail’ dilemma of unanswered application demand by empowering business users to easily assemble their own “situational applications” in response to ever-changing business requirements.

About JackBe Corporation
JackBe is the industry leader in Rich Enterprise Application (REA) solutions that extend SOA with Ajax to optimize business activity.  Headquartered in Chevy Chase, Maryland, JackBe’s satisfied clients already include more than 35 industry leaders worldwide supporting more than 4 million end users. Customers include Citigroup, McKesson, Tupperware, Sears, NutriSystem, Forbes, and the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency.  The company's deployments and deep expertise span the financial services, government, e-commerce and telecommunications sectors.

More information about JackBe is available at www.jackbe.com, by email at info@jackbe.com, or by phone at 240-744-7620.

About Rogue Wave® Hydra
Rogue Wave Hydra is a distributed SOA framework that enables an order of magnitude performance improvement in your enterprise applications-new or existing- by leveraging the power of parallel processing. The first product available for deploying high-performance SOA applications based on Service Component Architecture (SCA) approach, Rogue Wave Hydra allows professional developers to construct individual components (services) and tie them together in powerful, agile business processes (composite services) that are managed in a distributed runtime.

About Rogue Wave Software
Rogue Wave Software, a division of Quovadx, Inc. (Nasdaq: QVDX), provides reusable software components and services to professional developers for enterprise-class, high-performance application development. Today, thousands of developers at some of the world's leading companies have used Rogue Wave® products to develop mission-critical applications. Rogue Wave Software operates throughout the United States, Europe and Asia. For more information, please visit www.roguewave.com.

Presto is a trademark of JackBe Corporation. QUOVADX is a trademark of Quovadx, Inc., and Rogue Wave is a registered mark of Rogue Wave, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Quovadx, Inc.