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Vodafone deploys Fiorano messaging technology to maintain strong momentum in subscriber growth.

FioranoMQ® rated best JMS server for performance and stability


Los Gatos, CA - September 8th 2008 : – Fiorano Software, (www.fiorano.com) a leading provider of business process integration and messaging infrastructure technology announced today that Vodafone, the world's leading mobile telecommunications company chose FioranoMQ® for a mission-critical backend messaging system to drive continued expansion into the mobile market.

Mobile is always at the heart of what Vodafone does, and new value-added services over the standard offerings have driven subscriber-usage of SMS services. FioranoMQ allows the operator to control and provide new value added services via SMS (including payment services, news, sport information and others) using standard connectors with more competence and speed.

"Vodafone's choice of the FioranoMQ platform underscores Fiorano's continuing performance leadership in the messaging middleware space. Fiorano's grid-enabled peer-to-peer architecture allows linear scalability – a feature unmatched by competing technologies", said Atul Saini, President and CEO of Fiorano.

FioranoMQ is the world's first grid-enabled, peer-to-peer JMS messaging platform, with powerful and unique features including dynamic routing, distributed debugging of message flows, dynamic deployment of JMS client applications, unbounded scalability, direct invocation of standards-based JCA components and unparalleled ease-of-management with JMX standards. Rated at over 50,000 messages/second in closed benchmark testing, FioranoMQ is also the world's fastest standalone standards-based messaging server.

About Vodafone, Italy :

Vodafone Group Plc (www.vodafone.it) is the world's leading mobile telecommunications company, with a significant presence in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia Pacific and the United States through the Company's subsidiary undertakings, joint ventures, associated undertakings and investments.

Vodafone Italia's innovative contribution aims to bring together technology by supporting initiatives with services that expand content fruition and facilitate the participation of the public, which now plays an active role.

About Fiorano Software :

Fiorano Software (www.fiorano.com) is a leading provider of enterprise class business process integration and messaging infrastructure technology. Fiorano's network-centric solutions set a new paradigm in ROI, performance, interoperability and scalability. Global leaders including Fortune 500 companies such as Boeing, British Telecom, Credit Agricole Titres, Lockheed Martin, NASA, POSCO, Qwest Communications, Schlumberger and Vodafone among others have used Fiorano technology to deploy their enterprise nervous systems.