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Transitive® Ships Version 1.2 of QuickTransit® for Solaris™/SPARC®-to-Linux®/x86-64 With Certification for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Latest Version of Award-Winning QuickTransit® Hardware Virtualization Solution Certified for Production Deployments Using Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

LOS GATOS, CA, – July 2, 2007 – Transitive® Corporation, the leading provider of software that enables transportability of applications across multiple processor and operating system pairs, today announced the release of Version 1.2 of its innovative QuickTransit® for Solaris™/SPARC®-to-Linux®/x86-64 solution. Transitive, which established a partnership with Red Hat, Inc. in 2006 and is a member of the Red Hat ISV Partner Program, also announced that this new version of its QuickTransit software is now certified to run on the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 operating system.

Transitive's close relationship with Red Hat will help enterprise IT managers accelerate datacenter consolidation projects that involve replacing legacy SPARC-based hardware with more cost-effective industry-standard servers running Linux. Transitive’s QuickTransit software overcomes a major barrier to datacenter consolidation projects -- legacy application migration -- because it allows native Solaris/SPARC applications to run unmodified with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 on x86- or Itanium-based servers.

 “The release of QuickTransit for Solaris/SPARC-to-Linux/x86-64 Version 1.2 is a significant milestone for Transitive, and its certification on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 is a feature that will delight many of our enterprise customers,” said Ian Robinson, Vice-President of Marketing for Transitive. “Transitive’s Red Hat partnership will provide our global customers with confidence that their QuickTransit deployments with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 will be fully supported by Transitive and backed up by Red Hat.”

The worldwide drive for increased IT efficiency and reduced datacenter carbon footprints has led most IT managers to define a proactive datacenter consolidation strategy that requires decommissioning of legacy hardware and the migration of workloads to more energy-efficient, industry-standard platforms. The award-winning QuickTransit product line makes such transitions faster and easier, and provides support for the most common workload migration paths being adopted by enterprise customers.

Transitive’s unique and innovative QuickTransit for Solaris/SPARC-to-Linux/x86-64 solution makes it possible for x86-based servers to run the extensive selection of commercial and in-house Solaris/SPARC applications, without modification to their source code or binaries, with full functionality and in a way that is completely transparent to end-users and system administrators. Most importantly, the performance of translated applications on x86 servers is comparable to that on the latest Solaris/SPARC servers and significantly faster than older Solaris/SPARC hardware.

Availability and Licensing
Customers can purchase QuickTransit for Solaris/SPARC-to-Linux/x86-64 Version 1.2 from Transitive directly, and it is downloadable for evaluations or purchase from the Transitive Web site (www.transitive.com). The QuickTransit product line is also available from Transitive’s global network of channel partners, which include:

  1. Enterico Division, CRI – www.enterico.com
  2. Morse plc (in the UK) – www.morse.com
  3. MSI Systems Integrators, Inc. – www.msiinet.com
  4. Networld Corporation (in Japan) – www.networld.co.jp
  5. Paradigm Technology – www.pt-corp.com
  6. PKA Technologies – www.pkatech.com
  7. Repton (in the UK) – www.repton.co.uk
  8. Xcedex – www.xcedex.com
  9. Zot – www.zot.com

About Transitive Corporation
Transitive is the leader in providing solutions that allow the transportability of software applications across multiple hardware platforms. The company’s award-winning QuickTransit hardware virtualization solution allows software applications that have been compiled for one processor/operating system to run on a system with a different processor/operating system, 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, standardized 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. QuickTransit also provides the engine for IBM System p AVE, which will be included with all IBM System p enterprise servers later in 2007

Transitive Corporation is located in Los Gatos, California, with a research and development team in Manchester, UK. Transitive was nominated as a Technology Pioneer at the World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland in January 2007, and the company’s QuickTransit software was awarded the European ICT Grand Prize in March 2007, ahead of 450 technology products from 30 countries. For more information, please visit Transitive’s Web site 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