Insignia's Jeode Technology Licensed by Batmap For Geographic Navigator, Street Maps and City Guides

Business Wire, July 16, 2001

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

FREMONT, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 16, 2001

Insignia Solutions (Nasdaq:INSG), the leading provider of accelerated Java(TM) software solutions for information appliances, announced today that Batmap, a Spanish company specializing in geographic location and navigation applications for mobile devices, has licensed Insignia's accelerated Jeode(TM) virtual machine technologies. By leveraging Insignia's Jeode EVM(TM) runtime engine, Batmap's applications can be downloaded and used in all types of wired and wireless devices.

Batmap's geographic navigator -- in combination with Batmap's interactive street maps and city guides -- offers a global solution for companies that need to deliver content and services with a geographical context, and want to exercise direct control. Companies can present their data and applications through a user-friendly, map-based interface that may be accessed from any fixed or mobile device, with or without Internet access. Most importantly, Batmap customers can make their own changes to that information in real time.

Target devices for Batmap's applications include digital set-top boxes, Internet screenphones, smartphones, PDAs, Internet-enabled video game consoles and automobile Internet access devices. All of Batmap's location-based applications are written in the Java language, thus they require a Java virtual machine.

"Java technology enables Batmap applications to run on a wide variety of devices, independent of the underlying operating system and microprocessor," said Raul Chamorro, executive president of Batmap. "Insignia's Jeode platform is renowned for its ability to deliver an optimum balance of performance and responsiveness in the limited memory devices we are targeting."

"We're seeing accelerated interest from software developers in including our Jeode technology as part of their applications software offerings," said Mark McMillan, president and chief operating officer of Insignia Solutions. "We're pleased that Batmap has licensed our Jeode technology and plans to include it as a fundamental part of their innovative geographic location and navigation software."

The Jeode(TM) platform enables accelerated and robust Java(TM) functionality on information appliances. A "Sun Authorized Virtual Machine" fully compatible with the PersonalJava(TM) and EmbeddedJava(TM) specifications, the Jeode EVM(TM) can execute Java applications 6-10 times faster than interpretive JVMs in roughly the same amount of memory.

Key attributes include:

-- Industry leading accelerated performance and efficient memory utilization
through patent-pending dynamic adaptive compilation (DAC(TM)) and precise,
concurrent garbage collection technologies

-- Configurability and tunability to meet the diverse needs of information
appliance developers

-- A turn-key software solution already ported and tested on popular RTOS/
microprocessor combinations:

-- Operating systems include Windows CE, Windows NT4, VxWorks, Linux, ITRON,
Nucleus, BSDI Unix and pSOS

-- Microprocessors include MIPS, ARM, Intel x86, PowerPC and Hitachi SH-3 and
SH-4

Batmap

Batmap, whose principal shareholders are the Corporacion Financiera Alba and Acciona, has the great competitive advantage of having developed a geographic navigation application that allows objects to be inserted onto and located in maps, which can be consulted in real time, from any type of device, be it fixed or mobile. The company also offers interactive street guides and city guides, which can be associated to the maps in accordance with the needs of each client. Batmap has more than 70 employees, with its head office in Spain and with a presence in the United Kingdom. It will shortly be setting up in France, Germany, Italy and the United States. For more information, visit http://www.batmap.com.

Insignia Solutions

Insignia Solutions is the leading provider of accelerated Java software solutions that dynamically optimize the use of available system resources. Insignia's patent-pending Jeode virtual machine technologies are licensed by such leading companies as BSQUARE Corporation (Nasdaq: BSQR), Compaq Computer Corporation (NYSE: CPQ), Echelon Corporation (Nasdaq: ELON), Fujitsu PC, Gemstar/TV Guide (Nasdaq: GMST), Intel Corporation (Nasdaq: INTC), Motorola (Nasdaq: MOT), NCR Corporation (NYSE: NCR), Nortel Networks (NYSE: NT), Olivetti, Philips Semiconductor (NYSE: PHG), Phoenix Technologies (Nasdaq: PTEC), Quantum Corporation (NYSE: DSS, HDD), Siemens AG, Toshiba Information Systems, Victor Data Systems (a subsidiary of JVC) and Wind River Systems (Nasdaq: WIND). Insignia Solutions is publicly-held with headquarters in Fremont, Calif., and its main R&D facilities in High Wycombe, England. Sales and marketing departments are located in Fremont and High Wycombe. For additional information on Insignia and its products, call 800/848-7677 in the United States, 44 (0)1628 539 500 in Europe, 81 3 5404 3440 in Japan or visit the company's website at http://www.insignia.com.