CampusEAI Consortium Acquires Portlets.com - Portlets.com's Portlets and Portlet Development Services to be Included in CampusEA

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February 27, 2008 -CampusEAI Consortium today announced the acquisition of New Jersey-based Portlets.com, the leading global provider of standards-based portlets. Portlets.com's portlets and portlet development services will be included in CampusEAI Consortium's solutions and services portfolio. Financial terms were not disclosed.

Portlets.com develops portlets for multiple open source and commercial enterprise portal platforms such as:

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• Ja-Sig^®uPortal^®
• SunGard^®Luminis^®
• Oracle^®Portal (Oracle^®Portal 10g, Oracle^®WebCenter^®,
• Oracle^®BEA WebLogic^®Portal)
• IBM^®WebSphere^®Portal
• Sun^®Java^®System Portal
• Microsoft^®SharePoint^®

Portlets.com is focused on providing organizations that already have an enterprise portal with portlets that enable them to integrate existing enterprise applications into their enterprise portal.

Portlet.com's portlet software portfolio includes integrations to systems such as:

• Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems such as:
• Oracle^®(Peoplesoft^®& Oracle^®Apps)
• SAP^®
• SunGard^®Banner^®
• Datatel^®Colleague^®
• Jenzabar^®
• Learning Management systems such as:
• Blackboard^®
• WebCT^®
• Sakai^®
• Moodle^®
• Collaboration systems such as:
• Microsoft^®(Exchange^®and Live@edu^®)
• Google^®Apps
• Lotus^®Notes^®
• Novell^®Groupwise^®

We are pleased to include Portlets.com's library of portlets and their world-class development team into the CampusEAI Consortium,"said Michael C. DeJohn, Director of Corporate Development and General Counsel for the CampusEAI Consortium. "Organizations that already have an enterprise portal are looking for additional portlets that can enable their users to more seamlessly access their enterprise applications.

With Portlets.com's products and services, CampusEAI Consortium's members and clients will now be able to more effectively integrate their key enterprise applications into their enterprise portals."

With this acquisition, Portlets.com becomes a wholly owned subsidiary of CampusEAI Consortium. Portlets.com's technical team and products will form the core of the CampusEAI Consortium's Enterprise Application Integration portfolio and will be managed by Jason Shao, Director of Product Development of the CampusEAI Consortium.

"Portlets.com brings deep domain expertise to the delivery of standards-based portlets."said Anjli Jain Chopra, Executive Director of the CampusEAI Consortium. "We are pleased to provide Portlets.com's technical expertise and software to our members and clients."

For more information on the CampusEAI Consortium or myCampus, contact Anjli Jain Chopra atanjli_jain@campuseai.orgto schedule an executive one-on-one session.

About CampusEAI Consortium

CampusEAI Consortium is a global not-for-profit information technology services and consulting provider focused on helping its members implement enterprise IT solutions cost-effectively and timely. More than 260 members belong to CEAI, including Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the City of Cleveland, Portland Public Schools, McGill University, AmTrust Bank, The University of Exeter, the University of Montana, The Hong Kong Institute of Education, and The University of Melbourne. For more information, visithttp://www.campuseai.org

Contact:

Rich Griffin
Executive Vice President
CampusEAI Consortium

rich_griffin@campuseai.org

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CampusEAI is not a partner, affiliate nor does an agencyrelationship exist between IBM^®, Sun Microsystems^®, Microsoft^®, SAP^®, SunGard^®, JA-SIG^®, Datatel^®, Jenzabar^®, Google^®, Novell^®, Blackboard^®, Sakai^®, Moodle^®and CampusEAI. CampusEAI does not develop, market or distribute SunGard^®Banner^®, JA-SIG^®, IBM^®, Sun Microsystems^®, SAP^®, Datatel^®, Jenzabar^®, Google^®, Novell^®, Blackboard^®, Sakai^®or Moodle^®solutions or services. SunGard^®, JA-SIG^®, Oracle^®, IBM^®, Sun Microsystems^®, Microsoft^®, SAP^®, Datatel^®, Jenzabar^®, Google^®, Novell^®, Blackboard^®, Sakai^®or Moodle^®do not endorse the products or services of CampusEAI. CampusEAI does not endorse the products and services of SunGard^®, JA-SIG^®, Oracle^®, IBM^®, Sun Microsystems^®, Microsoft^®, SAP^®, Datatel^®, Jenzabar^®, Google^®, Novell^®, Blackboard^®, Sakai^®or Moodle^®.

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