Gemalto Standardizes on MKS for Global Software Development

Market Wire, October, 2006

MKS Inc. (TSX: MKX) today announced that Gemalto, a leader in digital security, will expand its use of MKS Integrity, MKS's application lifecycle management (ALM) platform, across the breadth of their engineering organization. Gemalto was formed by the combination of Axalto and Gemplus and is now a world leader in the digital security market. Axalto has been working with MKS as a partner over the past two years and based on that success, and a comprehensive review of leading application lifecycle management vendors Gemalto has elected to standardize on MKS Integrity to manage their global application development.

"With the merger of Gemplus and Axalto to form Gemalto, the new organization was in a position where it was faced with implementing one application development platform. Axalto had previously chosen MKS, and Gemplus another leader in the ALM space" says John Alvares, CIO of Gemalto. "Based on MKS's single architecture approach, its superior functional advantages, and previous successes at Axalto, we decided to move forward with MKS. MKS has a unique approach to ALM that we look forward to taking advantage of as we continue to look for improvements in our global engineering team."

About MKS

MKS is the premier provider of application lifecycle management solutions for the global 1000. MKS's flagship ALM solution, MKS Integrity, is the most highly integrated ALM platform in the industry today, spanning all aspects of the software development lifecycle and supporting critical business transformations including SOA, application rationalization and outsourcing. MKS Integrity's single architecture drives high levels of user productivity, facilitates rapid deployment and process standardization while delivering a complete view of application development activity through real time metrics, trends and reporting. MKS Integrity also provides essential support for IT operations through software deployment and issue management. Founded in 1984, MKS serves more than 10,000 customers in countries across the world. Whether through deployment of MKS's solution strategically on an enterprise scale, or by leveraging individual components to solve project-level challenges, our customers can use MKS's software to enable higher levels of process maturity, better manage global development activity and safeguard their most critical business applications and software assets. Under its widely known MKS Toolkit brand, MKS also provides UNIX-Windows co-existence and system administration that significantly cut development and administrative costs and reduce time to market, while enabling enhanced performance. More information about MKS can be found at http://www.mks.com or by calling 1-800-265-2797 (US & Canada), 49-711-351775-0 (Germany), 44-1483-733900 (United Kingdom) and 1-519-884-2251 (Rest of World).

About Gemalto

Gemalto (Euronext NL 0000400653 GTO) is a leader in digital security with pro forma 2005 annual revenues of EUR 1,7 billion ($2.2 billion), operations in 120 countries and 11,000 employees including 1,500 R&D engineers. The company's solutions make personal digital interactions secure and easy in a world where everything of value -from money to entertainment to identities- is increasingly represented as bits and bytes communicated over networks. Gemalto thrives on creating and deploying secure platforms, portable and secure forms of software in highly personal objects like smart cards, SIMs, e-passports, readers and tokens. More than a billion people worldwide use the company's products and services for telecommunications, banking, e-government, identity management, multimedia content, digital rights management, IT security and other applications. Gemalto was formed in June 2006 by the combination of Axalto and Gemplus International S.A. For more information please visit www.gemalto.com .

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