Transitive's QuickTransit® Virtualization Software Allows Applications Written for Solaris™/SPARC® Platforms to Run on Linux®-Based Intel® Xeon® and Intel Itanium® Platforms

Business Wire, June 27, 2006

LOS GATOS, Calif. -- Modern Hardware Platforms Provide Significant Performance Improvements for Existing Software Applications

Transitive(TM) Corporation, the leading provider of software that enables transportability of applications across multiple processor and operating system (OS) pairs, today announced the first two products in a series of new QuickTransit(R) products that are being developed as part of its new Solaris(TM)/SPARC(R) Migration Initiative:

--QuickTransit for Solaris/SPARC-to-Linux(R)/Xeon(R) and

--QuickTransit for Solaris/SPARC-to-Linux/Itanium(R)

The new products are the first results of the collaboration with Intel(R) announced in March of this year to accelerate the migration from RISC-based platforms to Intel-based platforms, and they allow Solaris/SPARC applications to run without any source code or binary changes on Linux/Xeon- and Linux/Itanium 2-based servers respectively. The products dramatically reduce the barriers IT organizations face when migrating Solaris/SPARC workloads to Linux/Xeon- and Linux/Itanium 2-based servers. Additional future products in the series will allow Solaris/SPARC applications to run on various other hardware platforms.

"One of the biggest obstacles to migrating from one server to another is getting your internally developed and commercial applications ported to the new server," said Bob Wiederhold, President and CEO of Transitive Corporation. "In a large IT organization this can take years to accomplish. Since Solaris/SPARC applications can now run on your target platform without the burden of porting, this migration barrier is eliminated and IT organizations can immediately realize the full benefits of their new strategic server platform."

"We have evaluated application software running through QuickTransit on both Xeon- and Itanium 2 platforms and have been impressed by the fact that applications 'just work' and do so with incredible performance," said Kirk Skaugen, Vice President, Digital Enterprise Group at Intel Corporation. "Transitive's technology is poised to play a key role in eliminating barriers to server migration and allowing end-customers to move to industry standard architectures from Intel."

Transitive's QuickTransit hardware virtualization products allow Solaris/SPARC applications to run with full functionality, transparent interactive and graphics performance, and computational performance that is typically faster than the fastest Solaris/SPARC machines. The use of software applications running through QuickTransit is completely transparent to the end-user and easily managed by IT system administrators. Commercial and in-house software development teams can easily support their applications running through QuickTransit because no source code or binary changes are required.

Transitive expects to deliver the first of the new products, QuickTransit for Solaris/SPARC-to-Linux/Xeon, in Q3 2006. The second product, QuickTransit for Solaris/SPARC-to-Linux/Itanium, is expected to be available by the end of the year 2006. The products will be available to end-users through Transitive's direct sales force as well as through computer companies, systems integrators, and IT services companies. Specific distribution partners are expected to be named in the next few months.

About Transitive Corporation

Transitive Corporation is a pioneer and leader in providing solutions that allow the transportability of software applications across multiple hardware platforms. The company's QuickTransit hardware virtualization technology allows software applications that have been compiled for one processor/operating system to run on another without any source code or binary changes and at speeds comparable to native ports. The technology dramatically reduces software developers' cost, risk, and time-to-market of supporting multiple hardware platforms, facilitates computer companies' migration to new computer platforms, and makes significantly more software available on hardware platforms. QuickTransit technology provides the engine for the Apple(R) Rosetta(R) translation software, and is currently shipping on all of Apple's Intel-based computers. It is also shipping on all Silicon Graphics' Linux/Itanium-based computers. Transitive Corporation is located in Los Gatos, California with a research and development team in Manchester, England. The company is privately held, with funding participation by Pond Venture Partners Ltd., Manchester Technology Fund, Crescendo Ventures and Accel Partners. For more information, please visit Transitive's website at www.transitive.com.

Transitive and the Transitive logo are trademarks, and QuickTransit is a registered trademark of Transitive Corporation and/or its affiliates in the United States and other countries. Intel and Intel Itanium are trademarks or registered trademarks of Intel Corp. Linux(R) is the registered trademark of Linus Torvalds in the U.S. and other countries. Solaris is a trademark of Sun Microsystems, Inc. SPARC is a trademark or registered trademark of SPARC International, Inc. Apple and Rosetta are registered trademarks of Apple Computer, Inc. All other company and product names may be trademarks of their respective owners.