Transitive Offers Virtual Appliance for Evaluation of Solaris/SPARC Applications Running Inside a VMware Virtual Machine Environment

Business Wire, Nov 7, 2006

Data Center Managers Attending VMworld 2006 Can Evaluate the Innovative QuickTransit Solution Pre-Installed in a Ready-to-Run VMware Virtual Machine

LOS ANGELES -- Transitive[R] Corporation, the leading provider of software that enables transportability of applications across multiple processor and operating system (OS) pairs, today announced the availability of a virtual appliance that provides an evaluation release of QuickTransit[R] for Solaris[TM]/SPARC[R]-to-Linux[R]/x86-64 pre-installed within a VMware Virtual Machine (VM).

The virtual appliance provides data center managers with a quick and easy evaluation of Transitive's innovative hardware virtualization solution by allowing them to execute their Solaris/SPARC applications inside a VM on a 64-bit x86-based system, running either the free VMware Server or the high-end VMware Infrastructure 3 platform. No software installation or configuration is required. The major advantage of adding QuickTransit to a virtualization strategy is that it extends virtualization benefits to a broader category of applications by including those legacy applications running on proprietary UNIX platforms.

"Due to the increasing interest in QuickTransit solutions among enterprise data center managers, Transitive has invested in additional, innovative ways to get evaluation versions of the software in front of a larger audience," said Ian Robinson, vice president of marketing for Transitive. "This virtual appliance is an ideal format for enterprise customers who are already moving forward with a virtualization strategy to consolidate data center infrastructure and re-host legacy applications."

Synergy Benefits VMware Customers

Transitive is a Select level member of VMware's Technology Alliance Partner (TAP) program. By adding QuickTransit to their virtualization deployments, VMware customers can extend the useful life of key applications without the high costs or delays of traditional re-writing or porting projects. Using QuickTransit, VMware customers can also rapidly retire obsolete IT infrastructure and replace it with more cost-effective modern platforms.

Availability

The Transitive virtual appliance with QuickTransit for Solaris/SPARC-to-Linux/x86-64 pre-installed within a VMware VM is a limited offering available at no cost to qualified enterprise data center managers attending VMworld 2006 in Los Angeles, November 7 to 9, 2006. Transitive is in VMworld booth #318.

QuickTransit products are available to customers through Transitive (www.transitive.com) and its distribution channel partners, which include value-added resellers MSI Systems Integrators, Inc. (www.msiinet.com) and Zot, Inc. (www.zot.com) in North America, and Networld Corporation (http://www.networld.co.jp/) in Japan.

About Transitive Corporation

Transitive 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 solution 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. QuickTransit allows data center managers to transport legacy enterprise applications quickly and easily from outdated, proprietary hardware to modern, industry-standard 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.

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.

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