1. Talarian Proprietary Talarian’s New JMS Offering and Sun Partnership

2. Talarian Proprietary Contact Information Tom Laffey, Co-founder and CTO u tom@talarian.com, (650)-965-8050 x121 tom@talarian.com Brian Whetten, Chief Scientist u bwhetten@talarian.com, (650)-965-8050 x172 bwhetten@talarian.com Carolyn Robinson, Manager, Public Relations u Carolyn.Robinson@talarian.com, (650)-965-8050 x 125 Carolyn.Robinson@talarian.com Ed Bride, PR Consultant u ebride@bcn.net, (413)-442-7718 ebride@bcn.net Talarian Corporation u 333 Distel Circle, Los Altos, CA 94022 u info@talarian.com, (650)-965-8050 info@talarian.com

3. Talarian Proprietary Agenda News What Is JMS? Perils and Promise of JMS Talarian’s JMS Talarian and Sun Partnership

4. Talarian Proprietary News Two Exciting Java Announcements

5. Talarian Proprietary News Talarian announces partnership with Sun u First MOM licensee of J2EE u First to use “JMS” in product name u Series of joint seminars on JMS Talarian is introducing the leading implementation of the Java Messaging Service (JMS) into the market u Fastest and most scalable JMS on the market

6. Talarian Proprietary What Is JMS? How JMS Fits into the Java Platform

7. Talarian Proprietary Java Product Groups J2SE (Java 2 Standard Edition)  Basic Java 2 SDK, tools, runtimes, and APIs for deploying, and running applets and applications in Java J2EE (Java 2 Enterprise Edition) u Enterprise-class server side applications J2ME (Java 2 Micro Edition)  A highly optimized Java runtime environment targeting a wide range of consumer products

8. Talarian Proprietary J2EE Technologies Enterprise Javabeans Java Server Pages Java Servlet J2EE Connector JNDI IDL (for interoperability with CORBA) Java Message Service u Also a new Enterprise bean type JavaMail Transactions (JTA, JTS) JDBC Technologies and APIs for building and deploying enterprise-class server applications.

9. Talarian Proprietary What Is JMS? Vendor neutral (standard) API that enables Java programs to communicate asynchronously via messages u Publish-subscribe and point-to-point (queuing) Component of J2EE u http://java.sun.com/j2ee/ http://java.sun.com/j2ee/ Developed with “support and encouragement” of many enterprise messaging vendors Further information available: u http://java.sun.com/products/jms/docs.html http://java.sun.com/products/jms/docs.html – Spec, source, javadoc, jar, sample programs u http://java.sun.com/products/jms/faq.html http://java.sun.com/products/jms/faq.html – FAQ (both general and technical questions)

10. Talarian Proprietary The Promise of JMS “Messaging for the masses” u Could have similar impact that SQL had on databases u Similar to JDBC (which all vendors now support) First enterprise messaging API to achieve wide industry support (standard) Simplifies development of enterprise applications (ease of use) Leverages existing enterprise-proven messaging systems (implementation) Easy to write portable messaging based business applications (write once, run anywhere)

11. Talarian Proprietary The Perils of JMS Views world as “Java centric” Complexity of code u Design by committee Limited performance u Can’t multi-thread a session u No buffering u Message servers in Java No monitoring No end-to-end security No interoperability testing No JMS certification (coming Q3 2001 from Sun)

12. Talarian Proprietary Talarian and Sun Details on Partnership

13. Talarian Proprietary Talarian and Sun Partnership Talarian is first MOM vendor to become Sun J2EE licensee Talarian and Sun will do a Worldwide Seminar Series on JMS in Q2 2001 Talarian only vendor to use JMS in product name u Workbench for JMS

14. Talarian Proprietary Talarian’s JMS The Industry’s 1st Enterprise JMS

15. Talarian Proprietary Talarian’s World-Class Customers

16. Talarian Proprietary Talarian’s JMS Uses proven SmartSockets infrastructure u Brings Talarian 10+ years experience at NYSE et. al. to JMS market First enterprise quality JMS World’s fastest JMS product u Benchmarked at 10,000+ messages per second Enables real-time communication with applications in C, C++, Java, and ActiveX Complete messaging product line u Monitoring, fault tolerance, dynamic routing, etc.

17. Talarian Proprietary JMS Vendor’s Monolithic Architecture JMS Client JMS Server Java JMS Clients invoke the JMS services. JMS Client

18. Talarian Proprietary Talarian’s Distributed Architecture JMS Client C++ Client V-Basic Client C++ Client Power Builder Client JMS Client Java Client C Client RTserver C/C++ RTserver C/C++ RTserver C/C++ RTserver Cloud Our implementation does NOT assume a Java centric view of the world Active-X Controls Message routers written in C/C++ give highest possible performance

19. Talarian Proprietary Why Is Our JMS so Fast? Talarian’s product are deployed in the world’s highest performing applications: u NYSE, CBOE, PHLX, Nasdaq, MCI, … u 10+ years experience Message buffering Message routers written in C/C++ SmartSockets is first JMS enabling communication over both unicast and multicast u Unicast: use when communication is 1-1, over a WAN, over Internet, or where network is not multicast enabled u Multicast: use when high fan-out required, 1-to-many, over controlled network; works well over satellite + terrestrial

20. Talarian Proprietary Publisher Subscriber Multicast TCP Unicast and Multicast Subscriber SSL Subscriber SmartSockets Cloud

21. Talarian Proprietary Talarian’s JMS Packaging Workbench for JMS u Developer Edition u Low cost, get going quickly, web download u Smaller applications SmartSockets JMS u Enterprise Edition u Fully fault tolerant and scalable u Takes advantage of full SmartSockets infrastructure u Interfaces for C, C++, Active-X, …

22. Talarian Proprietary Workbench for JMS GUI

23. Talarian Proprietary Product Rollout In beta now March, 2001, Version 1.0

24. Talarian Proprietary Summary JMS will do for messaging what SQL did for databases Talarian announces partnership with Sun u First MOM licensee of J2EE u Series of joint seminars on JMS Talarian is introducing the leading implementation of the Java Messaging Service (JMS) into the market u Draws on our 10+ years experience u Fastest and most scalable JMS on the market