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Transitive(R) Names MSI Systems Integrators As First VAR for North America; Leading Enterprise IT Solutions Specialist to Support QuickTransit(R) Hardware Virtualization Products for RISC Migration

Posted on: Monday, 28 August 2006, 09:00 CDT

Transitive(R) Corporation, the leading provider of software that enables transportability of applications across multiple processor and operating system (OS) pairs, today announced that it has named MSI Systems Integrators, Inc. (MSI), a leading comprehensive IT solution provider of hardware, software and services, as the firm's first value-added reseller (VAR) for the North American market. MSI will serve as a technology consultant, reseller, and systems integrator for the sales and implementation of Transitive's line of QuickTransit(R) hardware virtualization products, and Transitive will provide training and advanced technical support to enable MSI to provide customers with the highest levels of IT technology services and support.

"We are very excited to name our first VAR for the North American market, and are especially pleased to be doing this with MSI, who have been quick to adopt emerging technologies and very successful bringing them to customers," said Bob Wiederhold, President and CEO of Transitive. "MSI has a great deal of experience with the implementation of complementary technologies in the expanding virtualization arena, so we think that this is a great fit."

"Transitive's QuickTransit products for software migration completely change the feasibility of application migration," said Phil Sauvageau, Chief Operating Officer, MSI Systems Integrators, Inc. "As the first reseller in North America, MSI will be able to help our customers move all of their Solaris(TM)/SPARC(R) applications to new server platforms with unprecedented ease and speed to gain the highest strategic, financial, operational, and organizational benefits. We are eager to begin delivering this valuable new technology to the market."

The first enterprise IT migration products that the firms will offer are the new QuickTransit for Solaris/SPARC-to-Linux(R)/Xeon(R) and QuickTransit for Solaris/SPARC-to-Linux/Itanium(R), the first two of a series of products that will enable the migration of Solaris/SPARC workloads to other servers. The products were announced in late June. Transitive expects to deliver 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. The company expects to name additional distribution partners in the next few months.

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.

About MSI Systems Integrators, Inc.

MSI Systems Integrators brings enterprise solutions to the on demand marketplace in the areas of enterprise management, enterprise security, business intelligence, business integration, business continuity, content management and infrastructure simplification. A leading provider of hardware, software and services, MSI has deep technical skills and partners with technology leaders such as IBM, Microsoft and Cisco Systems to provide world-class business solutions that help companies be more responsive, productive and resilient. MSI is headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska with offices throughout the United States. For more information about MSI, please visit www.msiinet.com or call 800-640-4674, extension 2394.

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. All other company and product names may be trademarks of their respective owners.

Source: Business Wire

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