OASIS Member News: XML Networking Leader Sarvega Announces Peggy Weigle Joins Company as Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer

["peter borbely" <peter@sarvega.com>]

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   XML Networking Leader Sarvega Announces Peggy Weigle Joins Company as
                Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer


Chicago, IL, February 28, 2005 -- Sarvega, Inc., the leading provider of
XML networking products, today announced that Peggy Weigle has joined
the company as senior vice president and chief operating officer
responsible for marketing, sales, and customer support. Weigle is
joining the company as the world wide demand increases from enterprises,
governments, and partners for Sarvega's industry-leading XML security,
acceleration, and routing products. 

"We are delighted to have an executive with Peggy's impressive
credentials join the Sarvega team," said Christopher Darby, president &
CEO of Sarvega. "She is highly regarded in the industry for her
considerable expertise in enterprise and government security solutions.
Peggy's executive background and proven track record in operating rapid
growth companies is exactly what we need at this stage of Sarvega."

Weigle brings extensive experience in corporate operations and
enterprise security. Ms. Weigle is an industry pioneer in the field of
Web application firewalls and application security testing technology.
Formerly CEO of Sanctum, Inc., the pioneering and leading Web
application security testing and firewall software company, Weigle was
named as one of the 50 most powerful people in networking by Network
World magazine in 2003.  Ms. Weigle served as Sanctum CEO for over five
years and led the company's successful sale to Watchfire in August 2004.
Prior to Sanctum, Ms. Weigle held several senior management positions at
Hyperion Solutions and (prior to the merger of the two companies) Arbor
Software. She was Vice President and General Manager of Hyperion's
Performance Management division after serving as Vice President
Worldwide Field Operations. At Arbor Software, Weigle was Vice President
North America Sales. Prior to that, she held various sales management
positions at Pilot Software.

"Chris and his team have built a company that has quickly become the
industry leader in XML product innovation, price performance, and
customer satisfaction. Today, Sarvega products enable enterprises and
governments world wide to quickly implement secure, high performance,
and cost effective Web Services solutions," said Weigle.  "Sarvega's
unique technology, impressive customer base, and dedicated staff
position the company for even greater success. I look forward to working
with Sarvega's employees, customers, and partners to achieve its goals
for 2005 and beyond." 

Sarvega's portfolio of XML Networking products include the Sarvega XML
Guardian Security Gateway, which is a high performance XML Web Services
security solution built from the ground-up with a "Security DNA". It
provides complete standards-compliant Web Services security and
sophisticated XML intrusion protection capability to mission-critical
XML Web Services deployments. The Sarvega XML Speedway Accelerator
addresses critical XSLT performance and reliability issues, delivering
wire-speed XML processing for XSLT transformation and schema validation.
The Sarvega XML Context Router is the industry's first XML appliance to
route XML content at wire-speed with deep content inspection, supporting
publish/subscribe models with secure, guaranteed delivery.


About Sarvega
Sarvega, Inc. is the leading provider of XML networking products,
providing enterprises with unprecedented security, performance, and ease
of operation for XML Web Services. Sarvega's underlying technology, the
XML Event Stream Operating System (XESOST, Patent Pending), combines
comprehensive XML security and XML routing functionality with wirespeed
performance, non-stop availability, and hardware platform independence.
Sarvega's XML networking products are available both as secure network
appliances and on multiple third party blade alternatives. Sarvega
introduced the industry's first wirespeed XML appliance, the first XML
content router, and the first XML grid computing solution. Sarvega's
worldwide customer base includes governments and leading companies in
Financial Services, Telecommunications, and Media and Entertainment.
Sarvega is the recipient of numerous technology awards for innovation,
including Computerworld's Innovative Technology Award and CMP Media's
COMET Award. For details, visit www.sarvega.com, send email to
info@sarvega.com, or call 630- 627-3131.

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Sarvega, XML Context Router, XML Guardian, XML Speedway, XML
EventStream, XESOS, and Context Console are trademarks of Sarvega, Inc.
All other names are trademarks of their respective companies. 


Press Contact:

	Peter Borbely
	Sarvega
        (919) 345-5079
	peter@sarvega.com