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Fourteen Hundred Members Join Plumtree Developer Program in Its First Three Months Over 250 Attendees Convene at Plumtree's First Annual Advanced Developer Conference for Building Service-Oriented Applications SAN FRANCISCO, Plumtree Advanced Developer Conference, May 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Enterprise Web leader Plumtree Software today opened its first annual developer conference for building service-oriented applications with an announcement that over 1,400 customers and partners registered for its developer program since the program's inception in February, and over 250 developers traveled to San Francisco to participate in the conference. The conference features case studies from customers like The Bankers Bank and Cox Enterprises, hands-on developer labs and over 25 new technical presentations on building service-oriented applications. Plumtree is hosting a Web seminar for developers to learn more about Plumtree's Enterprise Web Development Kit (EDK) and Developer Tools Roadmap on May 19 with registration at: http://www.plumtree.com/04/edkdev . "In only a few months, Plumtree has established a new franchise among its customers and partners, which we believe is a major competitive asset," said Plumtree President and CEO John Kunze. "We have also developed an entirely new curriculum for building service-oriented applications, giving our customers the technical know-how and business methodology to create competitive advantage." Plumtree's developer program is the only one of its kind to offer both Java and .NET developers the technical support, training and best practices they need to build service-oriented applications using a variety of development tools and application servers. Program members get a subscription to Plumtree's developer newsletter and participation in user groups, monthly technical seminars and Plumtree's annual developer conference. Members can also access the Plumtree Developer Center, an online resource center offering over 1,500 discussion threads and thousands of pages of documentation to an average of 2,800 visitors per week. Program registration is open to customers and partners at http://www.plumtree.com/developers. Program Growth Attributed to Developer Demand for Building Applications From Disparate Services The growth of Plumtree's developer program is based on strong demand from developers who want to build service-oriented applications that draw services from different applications servers and systems. Plumtree's EDK helps ensure that these disparate services work together so that building cohesive, interactive applications with Web services is as easy as building them with native objects. With the EDK, developers have greater flexibility to build service-oriented applications without increasing development costs or compromising functionality. "Every application server vendor provides a support program for building applications using its platform and development tools," said Plumtree's Executive Vice President of Product Development Eric Zocher. "But in the real world, the kinds of applications organizations now seek to build draw on services developed and hosted in a variety of environments, maintained both by the enterprise as well its customers and partners. Ensuring these services can work together in a cohesive application is our unique mission, and Plumtree's new developer program is crucial to its success." For more information, developers can visit the expanded Developer Center, which now includes a new libraries section with sample APIs and a new, easier to use documentation section: http://devcenter.plumtree.com/ . About Plumtree Software Plumtree Software is the Enterprise Web leader. Plumtree's mission is to create a comprehensive Web environment for employees, customers and partners across the enterprise to interact with different systems and work together. Plumtree's Enterprise Web solution consists of integration products for bringing resources from traditional systems together on the Web, shared services such as collaboration, content management and search for building new Web applications, and a portal framework for delivering these Web applications to broad audiences. Plumtree's independence and its Web Services Architecture allow its solution to span rival platforms and systems, helping maximize customers' return on their existing technology investments. With offices in more than a dozen countries, Plumtree has licensed over 600 customers, including Boeing, Ford Motor Company, Procter & Gamble and the U.S. Navy. For more information, visit Plumtree on the Web at http://www.plumtree.com/. NOTE: Plumtree is a registered trademark of Plumtree Software, Inc. and/or its subsidiaries in the US and/or other countries. All other registered and unregistered trademarks in this document are the sole property of their respective owners. CONTACT: Courtney Ostermann of Plumtree Software, +1-415-399-7046, or . DATASOURCE: Plumtree Software CONTACT: Courtney Ostermann of Plumtree Software, +1-415-399-7046, or Web site: http://www.plumtree.com/

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