SANTA CLARA, Calif., April 10, 2006-- OpSource, The SaaS Experts(TM), announced that Business Objects, the world's leading provider of business intelligence (BI) solutions, has selected OpSource to provide the operational on-demand infrastructure and ongoing services for delivering crystalreports.com, its new on-demand BI solution. Business Objects joins a rapidly growing number of top-tier software companies that have adopted the OpSource Optimal On-Demand(SM) solution with Success-Based Pricing(SM), recognizing OpSource as the leader in high quality, reliable on-demand software enablement, delivery, and services.

"OpSource leads the market in delivering on-demand software infrastructure and has a proven track record of reliability," said Donald MacCormick, vice president of product marketing. "By leveraging the on-demand business model, crystalreports.com can provide customers with a cost-effective and globally accessible BI solution. Working with OpSource allows Business Objects to maintain our focus on developing world-class software, rather than maintaining the infrastructure for our On Demand BI solutions. With its expertise and services, OpSource will help support Business Objects and accelerate our success as we enter this exciting new market space."

"We are delighted to welcome Business Objects into our growing family of on-demand software company customers," said Treb Ryan, Chief Executive Officer of OpSource. "Business Objects is renowned in the industry for providing software that helps organizations gain better insight into their business, improve decision making, and optimize enterprise performance. We look forward to extending the value of their BI solutions with a set of high-quality, highly reliable, and cost-effective on-demand infrastructure and services that can make BI easily accessible over the web. Because of our unique business model, OpSource is committed at every level in our organization to drive the success of Business Objects, and all our software company customers, because our revenues are tied directly to our customers' revenues."

OpSource will provide Business Objects with a 100% uptime guarantee, full application management, and 24x7 call center support -- all priced on demand. The entire infrastructure is built on OpSource's OptiTech Services Engine(SM), a patent pending technology platform that supports rapid integration, deployment and monitoring of on-demand offerings.

About Business Objects

Business Objects is the world's leading business intelligence (BI) software company. With more than 35,000 customers worldwide, including over 80 percent of the Fortune 500, Business Objects helps organizations gain better insight into their business, improve decision making, and optimize enterprise performance. The company's business intelligence platform, BusinessObjects(TM) XI, offers the BI industry's most complete and trusted platform for performance management, planning, reporting, query and analysis, and enterprise information management. BusinessObjects XI includes Crystal Reports(R), the industry standard for enterprise reporting. Business Objects has also built the industry's strongest and most diverse partner community, and the company offers consulting and education services to help customers effectively deploy their business intelligence projects.

Business Objects has dual headquarters in San Jose, Calif., and Paris, France. The company's stock is traded on both the Nasdaq (BOBJ) and Euronext Paris (ISIN: FR0004026250 - BOB) stock exchanges. More information about Business Objects can be found at http://www.businessobjects.com .

About OpSource

OpSource, The SaaS Experts, is solely focused on providing the operational infrastructure and ongoing services that enable software companies to deliver and maintain the highest quality Software as a Service (SaaS) solutions. By choosing OpSource as a SaaS partner, the software company is free from infrastructure management and can focus on improving its applications and finding new customers. OpSource's Optimal On-Demand(SM) infrastructure platform provides immediate and ongoing ROI to software companies and our Optimal Integration service helps ease the transition to SaaS. We enable software companies to deploy SaaS quickly, effortlessly, and without risk. Software companies at any stage in the application lifecycle, delivering any type of application, can benefit from OpSource's comprehensive services and expertise. Our Success-Based Pricing(SM) model allows companies to begin with a minimum commitment, and expenses scale only as revenue increases. For more information about OpSource, visit opsource.net .

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