Skyway Software Announces Board of Advisors – Ed Merks and Erich Winkler Augment Firm’s Strategic Capabilities

Tampa, FL, September 12, 2008 --(PR.com)-- Skyway Software, an open-source alternative for delivering model-centric Java EE applications for the Spring Framework, announces today the formation of its Board of Advisors. Newly appointed Advisors include Ed Merks, a widely-recognized software application delivery expert and significant member of the Eclipse Foundation, and Erich Winkler, a former IT Executive whose career spanned numerous international assignments with Altria and Philip Morris.

According to Sean Walsh, President and CEO of Skyway Software, “The Skyway Software Board of Advisors consists of business and technology leaders with expertise in financial services, retail, consumer products, and information technology, with particular expertise in commercial and open-source software development technologies. Their unique qualities and expert perspectives will provide objective guidance to the Skyway Software Management Team regarding our business and technology strategy and subsequent go-to-market activities. We truly are honored to have Erich and Ed join us so that they can help us achieve our next level of business objectives.”

About the Skyway Software Board of Advisors

Erich Winkler was Information Systems Director for Altria Corporate Services in New York, where he held IT responsibility for Altria Corporate Finance Systems, the Altria Corporate Shared Services Center, and the Philip Morris Capital Corporation. Erich also led the company's global Community of Interest for SAP. Erich's career with the Altria Group of Companies spanned 25 years, and included Senior IT Management positions in Europe, in Asia/Pacific, and in North America.

Ed Merks leads the Eclipse Modeling Framework project and coleads the Eclipse Modeling project. He is a coauthor of the authoritative book “EMF: Eclipse Modeling Framework” which is nearing completion of a second edition. He is an elected member of the Eclipse Foundation Board of Directors and has been recognized by the Eclipse Community Awards as Top Ambassador and Top Committer. Ed is currently interested in all aspects of Eclipse modeling and its application and is well recognized for his dedication to the Eclipse community, posting literally thousands of newsgroup answers each year. He spent 16 years at IBM, achieving the level of Senior Technical Staff Member after completing his Ph.D. at Simon Fraser University. He is a partner of itemis AG. His experience in modeling technology spans 25 years.

About Skyway Software

Skyway Software provides technology and processes to IT organizations that simplify their software delivery process - often times reducing Java EE application development and deployment schedules by 30 percent or more. Some of the world's largest enterprises rely on model-centric Skyway Builder and its iterative, enabling methodology Skyway Collaborative Software Delivery to facilitate collaborative development and deployment of SOA-based solutions. Skyway Builder utilizes Eclipse to create an easy to use - yet distinctly flexible - modeling solution as a seamless blend of coding and modeling for building and deploying Rich Internet Applications and Web Services. These models generate standard Java code that conforms to industry best practices for deploying to the Spring Framework and Spring MVC in a web-server-only environment and/or in a full Java EE container. The modeled solutions are equally portable across open-source infrastructure stacks or across diverse commercial infrastructure stacks. Founded in 2001, Skyway Software is headquartered in Tampa. For more information, call +1 (813) 288-9355 or visit www.skywaysoftware.com. A wide variety of Skyway Builder product information and resources are available on the Skyway Community site located at www.skywayperspectives.org.

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