Appear Networks Receives Honorable Mention at the JBoss Innovation Awards
High Profile Mobile Deployment with Dutch Rail Recognized as Industry Leading Solution
Stockholm, April 27, 2006 –JBoss®, Inc., the Professional Open Source company, announced on Monday the winners of the inaugural JBoss Innovation Awards. Appear Networks was selected for an honorable mention in the category Return on Investment for the deployment of a mobile workforce solution to 10,000 users in 50 train stations across the Netherlands, based on the Appear IQ wireless communication platform.
The deployment of Appear IQ, the largest known deployment of Wi-Fi enabled frontline applications to date, has generated an efficiency gain of 25 minutes per employee, per shift, saving an estimated 8 million Euros per year.
Winners of the JBoss Innovation Awards were selected in 11 categories based upon their use of the JBoss Enterprise Middleware Suite (JEMS™) to improve business processes, overcome technology challenges, and improve their customer’s bottom lines. Competition was stiff, with over 80 nominations submitted from users, customers and partners from around the world.
The winners will be recognized at a ceremony during the JBoss World 2006 in Las Vegas on June 15th.
About Appear Networks
Appear Networks is a leading provider of wireless communication platforms that enable successful enterprise mobility solutions. The Appear IQ suite of products transforms standard wireless data networks into multimedia channels to deliver personalized, real-time information, mission-critical video and VoIP communication to mobile workers. In highly demanding, mobile environments, Appear IQ makes technology accessible and intuitive, leveraging existing IT investments to maximize employee productivity and the effectiveness of customer interactions. Appear IQ is used by leaders in the transportation, telecommunication and public sectors, including, among others, Dutch Rail (NS), Stockholm Subway (SL), Paris Local Transport Authority (RATP), Connex, France Telecom and the City of Kista, Sweden. Appear Networks partners with IT industry leaders Cisco, Capgemini, Intel and Fujitsu Siemens Computers to deliver innovative, end-to-end, integrated WLAN solutions. The privately held company is headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden. For more information, visit
About JBoss, Inc.
JBoss, Inc., the global leader in open source middleware, offers simply the better way to transform businesses through a service-oriented architecture (SOA). As the leading open source platform for SOA, JEMS (JBoss Enterprise Middleware Suite) delivers proven performance in mission-critical environments and is backed by world-class support and service—all at a dramatically lower cost structure than proprietary systems. Fortune 500 companies such as Continental Airlines, MCI and Starwood Hotels & Resorts rely on Professional Open Source from JBoss, Inc. Certified partners offering JEMS and JBoss Subscriptions include Dell, HP, NEC, Novell, Sun Microsystems and Unisys. For more information, visit
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