TIBCO Collaborates With Industry Leaders for Enterprise-Ready Cloud Application Deployment

HCL Technologies and VMware Look to TIBCO Silver to Provide Cloud Computing Platform for Enterprise Customers


PALO ALTO, CA--(Marketwire - June 3, 2009) - TIBCO Software Inc. (NASDAQ: TIBX) today announced alliances with HCL Technologies and VMware to facilitate adoption and help enterprise customers realize the benefits of cloud computing with TIBCO Silver™ -- the industry's first platform designed from the ground up for the rapid delivery of cloud applications inside the enterprise.

HCL Technologies, one of India's leading global IT Services companies, will leverage TIBCO Silver to help its customers pursue and deploy their cloud strategy through outsourcing, consulting services, solutions labs and bundled services. Vikram Duvvoori, senior vice president and global head, enterprise transformation services, HCL Technologies stated, "At HCL, we believe that cloud computing could create an impact beyond IT and open up Blue Ocean opportunities for business transformation. We are long standing strategic partners with TIBCO and share a vision for transformation. We believe that TIBCO Silver is a step in the right direction, as it reduces barriers to adoption of process automation and application platforms."

VMware, the global leader in virtualization solutions from the desktop through the datacenter and to the cloud, will work with TIBCO to enable customers who virtualize their IT environments to more easily deploy and manage application solutions and create new services so they are able to focus less on maintenance and more on innovation. "VMware vSphere™ 4 helps customers of all sizes dramatically reduce capital and operating expenses while providing a proven platform for running all their applications with increased flexibility and agility," said Parag Patel, vice president, alliances, VMware. "Our new relationship with TIBCO complements the VMware vCloud Initiative to enable simplified infrastructure that will allow companies to more easily build and deploy applications for the cloud."

"We are extremely pleased to be working with HCL Technologies and VMware in helping them deliver next generation cloud computing solutions to their customers," said Jan Plutzer, senior vice president, field operations and alliances at TIBCO. By using TIBCO Silver we look forward to our joint customers developing new applications that are governable, scalable and rapidly deployable."

About HCL Technologies

HCL Technologies is a leading global IT services company, working with clients in the areas that impact and redefine the core of their businesses. Since its inception into the global landscape after its IPO in 1999, HCL focuses on 'transformational outsourcing,' underlined by innovation and value creation, and offers integrated portfolio of services including software-led IT solutions, remote infrastructure management, engineering and R&D services and BPO. HCL leverages its extensive global offshore infrastructure and network of offices in 20 countries to provide holistic, multi-service delivery in key industry verticals including Financial Services, Manufacturing, Aerospace & Defense, Telecom, Retail & CPG, Life Sciences & Healthcare, Media & Entertainment, Travel, Transportation & Logistics, Automotive, Government, Energy & Utilities. HCL takes pride in its philosophy of 'Employee First' which empowers our 54,026 transformers to create a real value for the customers. HCL Technologies, along with its subsidiaries, had consolidated revenues of US$ 2.0 billion (Rs. 9,842 crores), as on 31st March 2009. For more information, please visit www.hcltech.com

About TIBCO

TIBCO's technology digitized Wall Street in the '80s with its event-driven "Information Bus" software, which helped make real-time business a strategic differentiator in the '90s. Today, TIBCO's infrastructure software gives customers the ability to constantly innovate by connecting applications and data in a service-oriented architecture, streamlining activities through business process management, and giving people the information and intelligence tools they need to make faster and smarter decisions, what we call The Power of Now. TIBCO serves more than 3,000 customers around the world with offices in more than 20 countries and an ecosystem of over 200 partners. Learn more at www.tibco.com.

TIBCO, TIBCO Silver and TIBCO Software are trademarks or registered trademarks of TIBCO Software Inc. in the United States and/or other countries. All other product and company names and marks mentioned in this document are the property of their respective owners and are mentioned for identification purposes only.

Contact Information: Media Contacts: Richard L. Tso TIBCO Software Inc. (650) 846-8644 rtso@tibco.com Marianna Vyridi Weber Shandwick for TIBCO (650) 468-3263 mvyridi@webershandwick.com