Transitive® and Novell Strengthen Alliance to Accelerate Enterprise Customer Datacenter Consolidation Projects

Innovative QuickTransit® for Solaris™/SPARC®-to-Linux®/x86-64 Software Receives Novell Ready Logo Certification for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server

LOS GATOS, CA, – June 20, 2007 – Transitive® Corporation, the leading provider of software that enables transportability of applications across multiple processor and operating system pairs, today announced an expansion of its partnership with Novell, including an upgrade of its relationship to a Silver level Novell Technology Partner and Novell Ready Logo certification of Transitive’s award-winning QuickTransit® for Solaris™/SPARC®-to-Linux®/x86-64 solution.

Transitive's relationship with Novell will help enterprise IT managers accelerate datacenter consolidation projects that involve replacing legacy SPARC-based hardware with more cost-effective x86-based servers. Transitive’s QuickTransit for Solaris/SPARC-to-Linux/x86-64 software overcomes the biggest barrier to datacenter consolidation projects -- legacy application migration -- because it allows native Solaris/SPARC applications to run unmodified in SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 from Novell on x86-based servers.

“UNIX migration is one of the largest growth markets for Linux today,” said Roger Levy, senior vice president and general manager for Open Platform Solutions at Novell.  “We are delighted to work with Transitive to help customers migrate from proprietary and expensive UNIX platforms to a flexible, low-cost and interoperable Linux solution.”

 “Transitive and Novell have made significant progress in addressing the consolidation challenges of our enterprise customers,” said Bob Wiederhold, CEO and president at Transitive. “There is a natural fit between our two companies, and we look forward to pursuing a broad range of business initiatives in partnership with Novell.”

Working with Novell, Transitive created its QuickTransit Virtual Appliance - a pre-built virtual machine comprised of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 and QuickTransit for Solaris/SPARC-to-Linux/x86-64, resulting in a ready-to-run application migration solution.

Transitive’s QuickTransit Products for Solaris/SPARC Migration
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.

The global drive for increased IT efficiency has led most large IT organizations to define a datacenter consolidation strategy that requires decommissioning of legacy hardware and the migration of workloads to standardized platforms. The award-winning QuickTransit product line makes such transitions faster and easier, and they focus on the most common migration paths being adopted by enterprise customers.

QuickTransit for Solaris/SPARC-to- Linux/x86-64, released in November 2006, has enjoyed considerable market success, with enterprise deployments worldwide. Transitive plans to continue extending the QuickTransit family with additional innovative products through 2007 and beyond, based on enterprise customer needs.

Availability and Pricing
The production release of QuickTransit for Solaris/SPARC-to-Linux/x86-64 has been shipping since November 2006.  The product is priced at $875 per populated processor socket, in the form of a 1-year subscription (including customer support). Customers can purchase the product from Transitive directly, and it is downloadable for evaluations and purchase from the Transitive Web site (www.transitive.com). The product is also available from Transitive’s global channel partner network, which includes:

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.

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