In addition, TimesTen will integrate its real-time infrastructure software with TIBCO Rendezvous, a real-time, high-performance, scalable messaging software platform for e-business infrastructures, as well as with future releases of TIBCO Enterprise Message Service(tm) software, a high-performance implementation of Java Message Service (JMS).

This partnership builds on the complementary strengths of TimesTen's real-time infrastructure software for high-performance, memory-optimized data management, and TIBCO's real-time messaging, business process management and business optimization solutions. For TimesTen's customers, the collaboration provides a tightly integrated environment that enables real-time publishing of database updates and real-time transaction processing over a TIBCO messaging foundation. For TIBCO, the collaboration offers TIBCO customers an alternative data management solution to drive increased performance.

Initial interest in combining TimesTen and TIBCO technologies was born from customers in the financial services and global wireless service provider markets looking to further enhance customer- and network-facing applications, such as trading systems, billing solutions and customer care. By combining TimesTen and TIBCO, organizations ensure that their infrastructures can support the responsiveness, scalability and continuous availability requirements of business-critical applications in real-time enterprise environments.

"As the enterprise increasingly embraces the benefits of real-time processing, the need for a solution with the power and performance that TIBCO and TimesTen deliver becomes more apparent," said Ram Menon, senior vice president of Worldwide Marketing at TIBCO Software Inc. "TIBCO and TimesTen provide a unique combination of real-time capabilities in all the key areas of an enterprise infrastructure that demand real-time responsiveness."

"TimesTen has established a strong experience base with the most demanding real-tieal-time environments; financial services and telecom. We are now drawing on that expertise for customers who are building and enhancing real-time enterprise applications," said Jim Groff, CEO, TimesTen. "With TimesTen and TIBCO, customers gain a tightly integrated, real-time infrastructure - from messaging to data management to workflow, event processing and business activity monitoring - that is robust, scalable and continuously available."