Transitive™ Names Networld Corporation As First Distributor for Japanese Market

Firms Launch Latest QuickTransit® Hardware Virtualization Products for Enterprise IT RISC Migration

Tokyo, Japan, July 18, 2006 – Transitive ™ 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 Networld Corporation, headquartered in Tokyo, as the firm’s first distributor for the Japanese market. Networld will serve as a value-added distributor for the sales and implementation of Transitive’s line of QuickTransit hardware virtualization products, and Transitive will provide training and advanced technical support to enable Networld to provide customers with the highest levels of service and support.
“We are very excited to officially launch our company and products in the Japanese market and are very proud to be doing this with Networld, one of the top distribution companies in Japan focused on Enterprise IT,” said Bob Wiederhold, President and CEO of Transitive. “Networld has years of experience with complementary offerings in the expanding virtualization market, and we think that customers in Japan will benefit from their proven infrastructure support capabilities.”

“Both Networld and Transitive believe that there is a large opportunity in Japan for QuickTransit hardware virtualization technology to enable RISC migration programs,” said Shoichi Morita, Managing Director and Marketing General Manager of Networld. “We are pleased to partner with Transitive to bring this very beneficial new technology to our Japanese Enterprise IT customers.”

The first enterprise IT migration products that the firms will launch in the Japanese market are the new QuickTransit for Solaris™/SPARC®-to-Linux®/Xeon® and QuickTransit for Solaris/SPARC-to-Linux/Itanium®, the first two of a series of products that will enable the migration of Solaris™/SPARC® workloads to other servers. The products were announced late last month in North America. 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 Networld Corporation
http://www.networld.co.jp/
As a solutions distributor, Networld Corporation provides innovative technology products and professional services for customers that implement enterprise datacenters for utility computing and secure and ubiquitous access. Networld is challenging to lead the Japanese IT infrastructure industry through many years’ experience in virtualization technologies for servers, storage and applications.

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.

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