Ariba, Yodlee & Blue Gecko Select GroundWork Monitor

Emeryville, CA — June 2, 2005 — GroundWork Open Source Solutions, Inc., announced today the acquisition of its 50th customer of GroundWork Monitor, an IT monitoring solution based on open source software. Among GroundWork's customers are Ariba, a spend management solution provider; Yodlee, a financial services software company; and Blue Gecko, a provider of managed and hosted IT infrastructure solutions. The 50 customers that GroundWork has signed over the past 18 months underscore the increasing demand among enterprises for open source IT management solutions.

"GroundWork Monitor represents a compelling alternative to expensive commercial monitoring solutions and a better option than unsupported open source," said Robert Fanini, CEO of GroundWork Open Source Solutions. "Enterprises are increasingly realizing that their needs are best met by solutions like GroundWork Monitor that can offer the benefits of open source software but also provide the enhancements, support and services they've grown accustomed to from traditional enterprise software providers."

Ariba Selects GroundWork Monitor for Open, Low Cost IT Monitoring

Ariba (www.ariba.com ), a spend management solution provider, was looking for an alternative to the outsourced IT monitoring service it was using to track network utilization and web application performance and availability. According to Ariba, the annual expense of its hosted monitoring service was ten times the cost of GroundWork Monitor and it didn't provide performance and availability data in an open, flexible format. "With GroundWork Monitor, we can monitor our infrastructure from several different points in the network. We can see applications not just from the administrator's vantage point but from the customer's vantage point as well. This distributed monitoring approach gives us a much better overall picture," said Al Champagne, Senior IT Director, Ariba.

Yodlee Selects GroundWork Monitor for Affordable Application Monitoring

Yodlee (www.yodlee.com ), a financial services software company, wanted to replace a commercial IT monitoring framework because the need for application monitoring at the customer level had proven to be too difficult and expensive. Yodlee determined that it could leverage the cost benefits and inherent openness of open source software with GroundWork Monitor. Today, Yodlee relies on GroundWork Monitor for over 50 customer sites. "The best way to build an effective monitoring platform is a combination of point tools and customization," said Ganesh Narasimhan, Director, Operations Engineering, Yodlee. "GroundWork has pulled the best open source tools together into a monitoring solution that can be customized to meet the specific needs of an IT function."

Blue Gecko Chooses GroundWork Monitor to Improve Service, Reduce Costs

Blue Gecko (www.bluegecko.net), a managed service provider, was looking for an IT monitoring solution that was affordable and easy to deploy, but robust and flexible enough to meet the individual needs of its customers. Today, GroundWork Monitor enables Blue Gecko to review the current condition of a customer's particular service as well as surrounding services. "With this level of visibility, we can identify patterns and root causes for our customers," explained Chuck Edwards, Managing Partner of Blue Gecko. Blue Gecko expects GroundWork Monitor to reduce the number of false alerts by up to 90% and to incrementally reduce the time required for maintenance windows.

About GroundWork Open Source Solutions

GroundWork Open Source Solutions, Inc. (www.groundworkopensource.com) develops, integrates and enhances leading open source software to deliver comprehensive open source IT monitoring solutions. With GroundWork solutions, enterprises leverage the flexibility and low cost of open source tools to achieve enterprise-level availability, performance and operational efficiency at a fraction of the cost of commercial software. GroundWork is based in Emeryville, Calif. and its investors include Mayfield and Canaan Partners.