Sitraka JProbe Takes Gold At WebSphere Advisor Magazine Editors' Choice Awards; Award Recognizes Top Java-Based Software Solutions for IBM WebSphere developers

Business Wire, July 3, 2002

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

Sitraka, a proven leader in J2EE Performance Assurance, is pleased to announce that Sitraka JProbe(TM), has been awarded a Gold medal at WebSphere Advisor Magazine's inaugural Editors' Choice Awards, in the performance solutions category. The Editors' Choice Award selections were announced today, recognizing top Java-based software solutions for IBM WebSphere Application Server developers.

Sitraka JProbe is the premier performance tuning toolkit, providing powerful Java performance profiling, memory debugging, code coverage and thread analysis capabilities in one conveniently integrated suite. Painting graphical pictures of everything from memory usage to calling relationships, JProbe helps developers to understand precisely what is causing problems in Java applications-right down to the offending line of source code.

"Sitraka JProbe is an outstanding and invaluable tool for the developer," said Ellie MacIsaac, assistant managing editor, WebSphere Advisor Magazine.

Recipients of the WebSphere Advisor Editors' Choice Awards are chosen based on application design, simplicity and ease of integration with IBM WebSphere Application Server. Products considered for this award must enable or assist developers to quickly build and deploy highly scalable Java-based e-business applications. The award winners were selected by a panel of judges consisting of members of the editorial advisory board for WebSphere Advisor magazine.

"This award underscores our continuing commitment to provide innovative J2EE performance tuning solutions," said Ed Lycklama, CTO, Sitraka. "JProbe can dramatically increase the performance and reliability of today's e-business applications by detecting performance hazards in code early, when it's most cost-effective. We are very honored to receive this recognition from the editors of WebSphere Advisor Magazine."

This is the second award recognition for JProbe this year. JProbe recently won the prestigious Software Development Magazine Jolt Product Excellence and Productivity Award in the Utilities category.

About Sitraka

A proven leader in J2EE Performance Assurance, Sitraka delivers advanced diagnostic solutions that help companies to pinpoint and eliminate performance hazards in mission-critical J2EE applications. Sitraka products include PerformaSure, a transaction-centric J2EE diagnosis solution, JProbe performance tuning tools, JClass Java components and DeployDirector, a Java application deployment solution. Through industry partnerships with companies such as IBM, BEA Systems, Sun Microsystems and Mercury Interactive, Sitraka ensures that our products integrate seamlessly with the latest development environments and platforms. Sitraka products are sold and supported directly through our North American headquarters in Toronto, European headquarters in Amsterdam and global network of resellers. Visit Sitraka on the Web at www.sitraka.com.

Note: Sitraka, PerformaSure, JProbe, JClass and DeployDirector are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sitraka Inc.

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Fiona McIntyre

Public Relations Manager

Sitraka

(416) 643-4844

fiona.mcintyre@sitraka.com