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Transitive(R) Extends Enterprise Product Line With QuickTransit(R) for Solaris(TM)/SPARC(R)-to-Solaris(TM)/x86

Innovative QuickTransit Solution Delivers Thousands of Additional Applications to Enterprise Customers Using New-Generation Solaris/x86 Servers

JAVA ONE -- Transitive® Corporation, the leading provider of software that enables transportability of applications across multiple processor and operating system (OS) pairs, today announced QuickTransit® for Solaris(TM)/SPARC®-to-Solaris(TM)/x86, the latest addition to Transitive's award-winning QuickTransit product line for enterprise customers.

For the first time, enterprise customers deploying the Solaris OS can run the extensive selection of commercial and in-house Solaris-based applications available on SPARC processors, not just on new SPARC-based platforms like Sun's CoolThreads(TM) servers but also on industry standard Solaris x86-based systems without modification to their source code or binaries, with full functionality, high performance, and in a way that is completely transparent to end-users and system administrators.

"Using QuickTransit software, enterprise customers can more rapidly deploy the new generation of powerful and cost-effective x86 servers running Solaris/x86 while extending the useful life of their key Solaris/SPARC applications," said Bob Wiederhold, president and CEO of Transitive Corporation. "This will accelerate the pace and scope of Solaris/x86 server deployments, and allow customers to maximize the benefits of the impressive new x86-based hardware available from Sun and other system vendors."

"Transitive's announcement of a new version of QuickTransit for Solaris on x86 platforms is great news for the growing number of x86 customers running the Solaris OS, as it provides them with an even broader ecosystem of available applications and allows them to accelerate their Solaris deployment plans on x86 systems," said Paul Steeves, director, Solaris Marketing, Sun Microsystems.

"We're delighted to see QuickTransit for Sun Solaris/Intel® Xeon® multi-core processor systems coming to market!" said Diane Bryant, vice president and general manager of Intel's Server Platforms Group. "Transitive's binary translation technology offers a useful and innovative tool for helping customers migrate their in-house codes quickly to Sun's new Intel Xeon processor systems. Intel is supporting Transitive with loaned equipment and technical consultation to make QuickTransit a productive software tool for migrating to Intel® Core(TM) microarchitecture."

QuickTransit for Solaris/SPARC-to-Solaris/x86 expands Transitive's popular QuickTransit product line, and offers enterprise customers a choice of host operating system after they make the switch to industry-standard hardware, depending on their current IT strategy and future datacenter consolidation objectives. Transitive plans to continue extending the QuickTransit product line through 2008 and beyond, based on enterprise customer needs.

As with other versions of the product line, QuickTransit for Solaris/SPARC-to-Solaris/x86 can be used in a number of innovative ways by customers. For example, it fits very well into a virtualization strategy using products such as VMware, because a virtual machine could be configured with a Solaris/x86 guest operating system and then the QuickTransit for Solaris/SPARC-to-Solaris/x86 software. When multiple virtual machines are deployed on a single Sun x86-based host, then significant consolidation of Solaris/SPARC workloads can be achieved. Another popular use of the QuickTransit solution is to deploy Solaris/SPARC workloads on x86-based platforms such as laptops, so that customers can enjoy the mobility and flexibility of portable systems without having to re-write or recompile their applications. By using the QuickTransit software as the preferred mechanism for deployments on x86-based systems, internal developers and ISVs can continue to maintain a single Solaris/SPARC code base and avoid the complexity of managing multiple platform-dependent projects.

Availability and Pricing

A beta release of QuickTransit for Solaris/SPARC-to-Solaris/x86 will be available in July 2007, with the production release coming in September 2007.

Transitive plans to sign up more than 100 field testers for the beta release of QuickTransit for Solaris/SPARC-to-Solaris/x86 to exercise the new software with the broadest possible array of customer applications, including commercial software products and a wide range of internally-developed code. As an added incentive, Transitive will offer prizes that include three Apple MacBooks (which incorporate a version of QuickTransit known as Rosetta) to field testers of QuickTransit for Solaris/SPARC-to-Solaris/x86 who successfully run the largest and most diverse set of Solaris/SPARC applications.

Solaris customers interested in evaluating the beta release of QuickTransit for Solaris/SPARC-to-Solaris/x86 can sign up at Booth #1307 at JavaOne, where Transitive will be demonstrating its QuickTransit solutions.

The new QuickTransit for Solaris/SPARC-to-Solaris/x86 will be priced at $875 per populated processor socket as a 1-year subscription (including customer support). When deployed in a virtual machine, as used in the VMware or XenSource virtualization solutions, the QuickTransit software is priced per virtual machine rather than per physical processor socket. Customers will be able to buy the product from Transitive directly, and it will be downloadable for evaluation and purchase from the Transitive Web site (www.transitive.com). QuickTransit products are also available through Transitive's global channel partner network.

About Transitive Corporation

Transitive is the leader in providing solutions that allow the transportability of software applications across multiple hardware platforms. The company's QuickTransit hardware virtualization solution allows software applications that have been compiled for one processor/operating system to run on a system with a different processor/operating system, without any source code or binary changes and at speeds comparable to native ports. QuickTransit allows data center managers to transport legacy enterprise applications quickly and easily from outdated, proprietary hardware to modern, standardized platforms without incurring the costs and delays of porting projects, and with no disruption to end users. QuickTransit also facilitates computer companies' migration to new hardware platforms; dramatically reduces software developers' cost, risk, and time-to-market in supporting multiple hardware platforms; and makes significantly more software available for more hardware platforms.

QuickTransit technology provides the engine for Apple's Rosetta translation software and is currently shipping on all of Apple's Intel-based computers. QuickTransit also provides the engine for IBM System p AVE, which will be included with all IBM System p enterprise servers later in 2007.

Transitive Corporation is located in Los Gatos, California with a research and development team in Manchester, England. For more information, please visit Transitive's Web site at www.transitive.com.

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