Electric Cloud and Platform Computing Team to Deliver Industry's First Grid-Enabled Software Build Accelerator; Partnership to Provide Greater Levels of Flexibility and Efficiency Within Build Environments

Business Wire, Sept 5, 2006

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- Electric Cloud, leading provider of software build solutions, and Platform Computing, the global leader for grid computing solutions, today announced the development of an integration between Electric Cloud's software build acceleration product, ElectricAccelerator(TM), with Platform Computing's LSF family of products. This partnership creates the industry's only software build solution that enables customers to save time and optimize resources by leveraging the power of grid technology. This is the first time engineering teams will be able to harness the computing power of grid computing to accelerate software build tasks.

"Software development organizations are increasingly harnessing the power of grid computing to get products to market faster and to improve development productivity," said Mike Maciag, CEO of Electric Cloud. "We are pleased to be working with Platform Computing to enable LSF clusters to add critical value to development organizations by speeding production tasks such as building, packaging, testing, and deploying software by more than 10x."

"Our partnership with Electric Cloud is another milestone in our efforts to expand our support to our valued customers," said Simon Lonsdale, Director of Strategic Alliances, Platform. "Through the Platform Alliance Network, Platform leads the industry in grid-enabling ISV's and technology partners IT systems and applications serving engineering, finance, oil and gas, life sciences, government, electronics, education, and industrial manufacturing. Our partnership with Electric Cloud is a natural fit for Platform Computing and the integration provides additional value to our customers."

The integration between Platform Computing and Electric Cloud will significantly reduce the time it takes customers to build software, while providing an unparalled level of flexibility and efficiency. The integrated solution will equip software development organizations with the power to leverage as many (or as few) computing resources as required to speed software production, allowing for more efficient sharing of IT resources. The approach is advantageous because resources can be shared between ElectricAccelerator clusters or between an ElectricAccelerator cluster and other applications; a key factor for companies that want to build applications in parallel fashion from anywhere in the world.

Electric Cloud helps organizations to break the build bottleneck in order to improve engineering productivity and gain control over the development process. Only Electric Cloud has the software tools to reduce build times by as much as 20x, make full and incremental builds reliable, and provide the visibility and agility companies need to continuously improve build environments.

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About Electric Cloud

Electric Cloud breaks the software build bottleneck, improving engineering productivity and helping teams maintain control over the development process in the face of ever-increasing product complexity and time-to-market pressures. Electric Cloud's patent-pending technology accelerates the development lifecycle with tools that reduce build times, make both full and incremental builds accurate, and provide the visibility teams need to continuously improve their build environment. The company's products are in use by leading enterprises such as Qualcomm, Intuit, and Motorola. Based in Mountain View, California, Electric Cloud is funded by top-tier venture firms, Mayfield, U.S. Venture partners and RRE Ventures. For customer inquiries please contact Electric Cloud at (650) 968-2950 or www.electric-cloud.com.

About Platform Computing

Platform Computing is the leading systems infrastructure software company that accelerates applications and delivers IT agility for increased business performance and reduced cost. Founded in 1992 Platform has been a pioneer in HPC, Cluster and Grid Computing technologies. Platform has over 2000 global customers and strategic relationships with Dell, HP, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Novell, Red Hat and SAS, along with the industry's broadest support for third-party applications. For more information please visit www.platform.com.