IONA Announces Retirement of John Conroy from Board of Directors

IONA® Technologies (NASDAQ: IONA), a world leader in distributed service-oriented architecture (SOA) infrastructure solutions for performance-demanding IT environments, announced that today Mr. John Conroy retired from the Company’s Board of Directors. Mr. Conroy was first elected to IONA’s Board in 2001. Immediately following Mr. Conroy’s retirement, Director Jim Maikranz has been appointed to the Company’s Audit Committee and Director Bruce Ryan has been appointed to the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee. "I’ve thoroughly enjoyed my tenure on IONA’s Board of Directors and working with the IONA team. I am confident that IONA is very well positioned to take advantage of the growing demand for distributed SOA infrastructure solutions and I know the Company will continue to excel as I focus my attention on other endeavours,” explained Mr. Conroy. "We thank John for his years of service and his contribution to IONA and we wish him well in the future,” commented Kevin Melia, Chairman of IONA’s Board of Directors. About IONA For more than a decade, IONA® Technologies (NASDAQ: IONA) has been a world leader in delivering high-performance integration solutions for Global 2000 IT environments. IONA pioneered standards-based integration with its CORBA-based Orbix® products. Artix™, IONA’s extensible Enterprise Service Bus, enables customers to leverage distributed service-oriented architecture to streamline and modernize IT environments. The Celtix™ family of open source SOA infrastructure products allows customers to take advantage of the economic benefits associated with the use of open source software. IONA is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland, with U.S. headquarters in Waltham, Massachusetts and offices worldwide. For additional information about IONA, visit our Web site at http://www.iona.com. IONA, IONA Technologies, the IONA logo, Orbix, High Performance Integration, Artix, Celtix, Celtix Enterprise and Making Software Work Together are trademarks or registered trademarks of IONA Technologies PLC and/or its subsidiaries. CORBA is a trademark or registered trademark of the Object Management Group, Inc. in the United States and other countries. All other trademarks that may appear herein are the property of their respective owners.