SpringSource Announces Partnership With Hyperic

San Mateo, Calif.,—December 12, 2007—SpringSource, formerly known as Interface21, a leading provider of trusted open source software for building and deploying mission-critical enterprise applications, today announced a strategic partnership with Hyperic, the leader in multi-platform, open source IT management. Under the terms of the agreement, SpringSource will use Hyperic’s flagship open source software, Hyperic HQ, as the foundation of its new systems management offering.

The joint offering is the only management solution of its kind available today and provides users of the Spring Framework with a single view into the performance and health of their web-based infrastructure. Building on Hyperic’s proven management platform—specifically architected to consider all layers of infrastructure including hardware, middleware, virtualization and applications—the joint product enables system administrators to expand beyond classical monitoring activities to increase availability and improve the overall health of their IT infrastructure.

“Custom-built web applications have become mainstream to the enterprise. As a result, it is critical that leading web infrastructure providers like SpringSource provide their customers with comprehensive systems management capabilities to power these business critical services,” said Javier Soltero, CEO of Hyperic.“We are pleased that SpringSource has selected Hyperic technology to give its customers access to the industry’s most up-to-date and comprehensive monitoring and alerting tools so that they can discover and fix potential problems before they can impact the business.”

The joint management offering addresses the needs of the next generation data center, where today’s organizations must take into account the evolving demands of today’s IT infrastructure. Additional features include:

• Auto-discovery of Spring-managed applications and components and the platforms and application servers that they run on
• Monitoring of Spring applications, components and runtime
• Custom alert configuration and corrective actions
• Performance and service-level report generation
• Automatic calculation and updating of baselines for metrics
• JConsole support

“The Spring Framework has been widely adopted by developers for all aspects of enterprise application development and deployment,” says Rod Johnson, CEO of SpringSource and founder of the Spring Framework. “We are proud to collaborate with Hyperic, as they are a leader in open source systems management and are widely respected, utilized and deployed. SpringSource’s partnership with them is a response to market demand for a solution that enables IT administrators to manage and monitor the use of Spring applications across the enterprise. The joint management offering is further representative that Spring applications have graduated from easy and reliable developer tools to being an important part of the fiber of the enterprise infrastructure.”

About SpringSource

SpringSource, formerly known as Interface21, is a leading provider of trusted open source software for mission-critical enterprise applications. For information and explanation of the SpringSource name change, please visit Rod Johnson’s blog at http://blog.springsource.com/main/author/rodj/. SpringSource created and sustains the development of the Spring Framework, the leading Java™ and Java EE™ application framework. Through the Spring family of products, SpringSource has helped hundreds of organizations, including some of the world’s largest financial institutions and public sector clients, build and deploy mission-critical applications that boost developer productivity and increase enterprise ROI.  For more information, please visit http://www.springsource.com

About Hyperic Inc.

Hyperic (www.hyperic.com) provides the only open source systems management software purpose-built for the fast-moving online services market. Hyperic's software provides unprecedented cross-stack visibility and helps enterprises to pinpoint, correct and prevent problems at every layer - including hardware, networks, virtualization, middleware and applications. Hyperic's technology-neutral approach supports innovation by enabling manageability across technologies in the market today as well as those of tomorrow. Hyperic's software manages online services businesses of all sizes, including hi5 Networks, eHarmony.com, MyNewPlace.com and more. Founded in 2004 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, Hyperic is a private company funded by Accel Partners and Benchmark Capital.

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