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Transitive’s Solaris™/SPARC® Migration Initiative Dramatically Reduces Barriers to Running Software on New Server Platforms

New Series of QuickTransit® Products; New Distribution Strategy Through Computer Companies, Systems Integrators and IT Service Providers; and New Partnership Program with Microprocessor Makers, Linux® OS Developers and Virtualization Vendors

Los Gatos, Calif. – June 27, 2006 – Transitive™ Corporation, the leading provider of software that enables transportability of applications across multiple processor and operating system (OS) pairs, today announced its new Solaris™/SPARC® Migration Initiative. The goal of the initiative is to dramatically reduce the barriers IT organizations face when migrating Solaris/SPARC workloads to other servers. At the heart of the initiative is a series of new QuickTransit hardware virtualization products that allow Solaris/SPARC applications to run on other servers without source code or binary changes. As part of the initiative, Transitive will implement a new distribution channel strategy to sell QuickTransit products through its own direct sales force as well as through computer companies, systems integrators and IT service providers. To accelerate the adoption of QuickTransit products in the marketplace, Transitive is also initiating an industry partnership program that will include computer companies, microprocessor makers, Linux operating system developers, and virtualization vendors.

“The biggest barriers to migrating to new server platforms are the expense, risk and time associated with getting existing in-house and commercial software applications to run on a new platform,” said Bob Wiederhold, President and CEO of Transitive Corporation. “Our Solaris/SPARC Migration Initiative will allow applications to run on various server platforms – without modification – so that IT departments are free to chose their strategic platform based on the best mix of price/performance, power and space benefits.”

In a separate announcement today, Transitive also announced details of the first two products in a series of new QuickTransit products that will drive the Solaris/SPARC Migration Initiative:

  • QuickTransit for Solaris/SPARC-to-Linux/Xeon®, and
  • QuickTransit for Solaris/SPARC-to-Linux/Itanium®

QuickTransit Distribution Strategy
Transitive will expand their sales channel to rapidly accelerate the availability of QuickTransit hardware virtualization solutions for IT data centers. Transitive will immediately begin selling products associated with the Solaris/SPARC Migration Initiative directly to end-customers through its own direct sales force. Transitive is also in the process of establishing distribution relationships with a number of computer companies, systems integrators, and IT services companies who will also distribute Transitive’s products as a standard part of their product and service offerings. Transitive expects to make specific announcements with its initial distribution partners before the end of the year.

“Our IT data center customers want to be able to work with their existing supplier-partners to gain access to our technology,” said Steven Mih, vice president of sales for Transitive. “As a result, we are making QuickTransit available through multiple distribution partners.”

Industry Partnership Program
Transitive’s industry partnership program for the Solaris/SPARC Migration Initiative will focus on relationships with a number of players in the industry to maximize the performance of QuickTransit technology as well as to accelerate its adoption in the marketplace. Specifically, Transitive will work with microprocessor companies to advance the development and performance of QuickTransit products, with operating systems developers to ensure the integration and transparency of QuickTransit products; with computer companies to ensure the transparent integration of QuickTransit products, and with virtualization companies to ensure the compatibility of our products.

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® Rosetta® 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, QuickTransit and the Transitive logo are registered trademarks of Transitive Corporation and/or its affiliates in the United States and other countries. All other company and product names may be trademarks of their respective owners.

“ The advantages of the virtualization trend are many and varied, but many datacenters may be forced to launch multiple virtualization strategies or expensive porting projects to account for the multiple platforms they maintain. Cross-platform virtualization eliminates this obstacle, allowing datacenters to take a single, simple approach to virtualization that delivers the maximum benefits from initiatives related to server consolidation, disaster recovery, energy efficiency, and legacy migration. By enabling immediate software migration to chosen strategic server platforms, we believe that Transitive can help eliminate much of the difficulty and expense that companies face when upgrading hardware.”

Tony Iams
VP and Senior Analyst
Ideas International