PrismTech Announces New Pricing Model for Real-Time Ada Middleware; Combines New Product Bundle Strategy and Royalty Free Run-Time Licensing Model to Advanced Real-Time Ada CORBA ORB for Mission Critical Systems

Business Wire, July 12, 2006

ARLINGTON, Va. -- PrismTech(TM), a leading provider of productivity tools and middleware, today announced major changes to the way it bundles and licenses its advanced Ada middleware. OpenFusion(R) RTOrb Ada Edition is PrismTech's high performance, robust and feature rich Ada ORB specifically designed for use in mission critical Real-Time systems.

OpenFusion RTOrb Ada Edition is particularly suitable for demanding applications in sectors including: defense, aerospace, air traffic management, telecommunications, data communications, satellites, railways and financial systems.

Under the new licensing model all new OpenFusion RTOrb Ada Edition and CORBA(R) Services (Naming and Event) run-time licenses will be royalty free. For customers this offers the significant benefits of:

--There will be no additional costs for embedding OpenFusion RTOrb Ada Edition within their products.

--There will be no need to track run-time licenses so there will no longer be any costs associated with this.

In addition both the Ada Naming and Event Services will be bundled into the ORB development license at no extra charge.

OpenFusion RTOrb Ada Edition key benefits include:

--High quality proven mature Ada ORB with a worldwide customer base in sectors including air-traffic control, C4I defense and aerospace. The ORB is native Ada with no assembler or C callouts that could make the task of proving correctness using SPARK-like tools difficult.

--Ada95 memory-safe implementation designed for and suitable for use in high availability, mission critical applications.

--Memory allocation is performed in a manner that makes access fast, highly predictable and with minimal fragmentation.

--Flexible architecture provides a pluggable transport framework enabling replacement of the default transport with other transports to meet specific requirements.

--High performance of the Ada core is exemplified by the fact that even the "Any" type imposes minimal overhead. The ORB exhibits consistently high performance across a range of data types over both TCP/IP and shared memory transports.

--The OpenFusion RTOrb Ada Edition distribution is supported on a wide range of leading operating systems and has been built using a number of leading Ada compiler variants.

"I believe that the new licensing model combined with the additional bundled functionality available in OpenFusion RTOrb Ada Edition makes the product an even more irresistible proposition for Real-Time CORBA users developing demanding mission critical systems," said Andrew Foster, OpenFusion CORBA Products Manager, PrismTech.

Further information about OpenFusion RTOrb Ada Edition is available from PrismTech's website at http://www.prismtech.com/middleware.> Notes for Editors

About PrismTech

Founded in 1992, with offices in the USA and Europe, PrismTech is a privately held software products company. PrismTech serves international Fortune 500 customers in the telecommunications, data communications, defense and aerospace sectors. PrismTech is an acknowledged leader in software productivity tools and middleware, with solutions ranging from wide-scale integration to embedded real-time systems, supporting applications from operations support systems (OSS) through to software-defined radio (SDR). For additional information about PrismTech, visit the web site at http://www.prismtech.com.

CORBA is a registered trademark of the Object Management Group, Inc in the U.S. and other countries. OpenFusion is a trademark of PrismTech. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.