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JackBe Named Finalist in Red Herring 100 North America 2008 Awards

JackBe Recognized for Innovation and Leadership in Enterprise Mashup Solutions

Chevy Chase, MD & Santa Clara, CA. – April 15, 2008 - JackBe, the leading provider of enterprise mashup software, today announced that it has been named a finalist for the Red Herring 100 Award, a selection of the 100 most innovative private technology companies based in North America.

“JackBe is honored to be named a finalist for the Red Herring 100. Our selection is recognition of the enormous acceptance of our vision for mashups in the enterprise and a validation of the value enterprise mashups hold for business,” said Luis Derechin, CEO and Co-Founder, JackBe. “Red Herring’s nomination is one more indication that enterprises need mashups for dynamic access to critical data from disparate information sources.”

Red Herring's editorial board diligently surveyed entrepreneurial companies throughout the North American region and identified the top 200 out of more than 800 closely evaluated companies that are leading the next wave of innovation.  The recognition closely follows JackBe’s ‘Best Enterprise Mashup Platform’ in InfoWorld’s 2008 Technology of the Year Awards.

“HP SOA Systinet allows customers the visibility, trust and control they need to realize successful business outcomes with their SOA transformations,” said Avrami Tzur, vice president, SOA Software, HP. “As the SOA market continues to mature, we are very excited that JackBe’s Presto is now an integrated part of that value chain.”

“We can see the exciting evolution of the technology sector reflected in the quality and variety of exceptional companies that we had to choose from in putting our list together,” said Joel Dreyfuss, editor-in-chief of Red Herring. “It was tough to choose just 200 finalists from such a large list of excellent contenders, and we are very happy with the quality of the companies we selected as finalists.”

About Red Herring

Red Herring is a global media company which unites the world's best high technology innovators, venture investors and business decision makers in a variety of forums: a leading innovation magazine, an online daily technology news service, technology newsletters and major events for technology leaders around the globe. Red Herring provides an insider's access to the global innovation economy, featuring unparalleled insights on the emerging technologies driving the economy. More information about Red Herring is available on the Internet at www.redherring.com.

About JackBe

JackBe delivers enterprise mashup software that empowers application developers and power users to create, customize and share enterprise mashups for faster decisions and better business results. Our innovative enterprise mashup platform Presto provides a dynamic integration approach to building enterprise mashup applications faster, leveraging internal and external data, while meeting the toughest enterprise security and governance requirements.  Presto provides enterprise mashups delivered to the user in 3 clicks versus 3 months.>  For more information, visit www.jackbe.com.