COMPOSITE SOFTWARE CEO JIM GREEN TO ADDRESS THE URGENT NEED FOR CHANGE AT SOFTWARE 2004 CONFERENCE

San Francisco, Calif. - March 1, 2004 - Composite Software, a leading provider of enterprise information integration software, today announced that the company's CEO, Jim Green will take part in a CEO panel that will focus on what software companies need to do to become successful in today's market. The panel will take place at the Sand Hill Group's Software 2004 Conference and will be moderated by Tony Zingale, former president and CEO of Clarify. Other participants will include Julie Hanna Farris of Scalix, S Ramadorai of Tata Consultancy Services, and Jeff Rodek of Hyperion. The panel will take place on March 1, 2004 at 9 a.m. at the San Francisco Marriott hotel.

Green, a respected leader in the enterprise integration market, plans to address the need for the software industry to drive change that challenges existing assumptions, rethinks value propositions and discovers a new path to profitability.

“Our traditional ways of operating are history,” stated Green. “The path to future success is about doing less, not more—in fact, most of it is free. But it does require a commitment to change and quality that hasn't been prevalent in the industry since its infancy.”

Designed specifically to address business, operating and technology issues facing executives today, Software 2004 is the first strategic conference for enterprise software leaders. It is a vendor-neutral event that will bring together 1,000 CEOs, VPs and VCs to re-invent the industry, re-think current practices and make the critical changes needed to create successful organization for the next 25 years.

"The software industry is alive and well but new business models, customer buying patterns and technologies are permanently changing the landscape,” said M.R. Rangaswami, co-founder and managing director of Sand Hill Group. “Our goal for Software 2004 is to provide our attendees with insight from the most innovative and influential software leaders and visionaries.”

Additional information about Software 2004 is available at: http://www.software2004.com

Jim Green Biography

Jim Green joined Composite Software as CEO in early 2003. He previously served as CTO and EVP of WebMethods. Prior to webMethods, Green served as CEO of Active Software. He sold Active Software to webMethods for $1.5 billion While at Sun Microsystems, Green was the leader of the multi-company team that created the CORBA specification.

Pricing and Availability

The Composite Information Server is now available directly from Composite Software. Pricing typically starts under $100,000 for an initial project.

About Composite Software

Composite Software is the acknowledged leader in Enterprise Information Integration (EII) solutions, which provide real-time views of critical business information across multiple systems. The company's flagship Composite Information Server enables access to distributed enterprise data as if it existed in a single location. Founded in 2002 and headquartered in San Mateo, CA, Composite Software is funded by Palomar Ventures, Apax Partners, Lehman Brothers Venture Partners, Clearstone Venture Partners and Dot Edu Ventures. For more information, please visit the company's web site at www.compositesw.com.

About Sand Hill Group

Sand Hill Group serves the $600 billion enterprise software, services and solutions market, comprised of over 10,000 companies that directly employ over one million people. Sand Hill Group provides investments and management advice to emerging enterprise technology leaders. Sand Hill also publishes an electronic newsletter called Enterprise Critical, produces the “Enterprise” series of conferences for CEOs and other senior-level industry executives and creates high-impact research reports for its constituents. www.sandhill.com.

 

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