Transitive Ranks High in The Sunday Times Microsoft Tech Track 100

Los Gatos, Calif. – October 4, 2004 – Transitive Corporation, the leading provider of software that enables transportability of applications across multiple processor and operating system pairs, today announced that the company has ranked 18th among the top one hundred fastest-growing, private technology companies in the United Kingdom as listed in The Sunday Times Microsoft Tech Track 100 league table.

Now in its fourth year, The Sunday Times Microsoft Tech Track 100 is compiled by Oxford-based research company Fast Track and was published in The Sunday Times business section on 3 October and on www.fasttrack.co.uk.

“Being named to The Sunday Times Microsoft Tech Track 100 is an honor,” said Bob Wiederhold, President and CEO of Transitive. “The ranking means a great deal to our company and is a testament to the significant achievements we’ve made over the past several years.”

Transitive’s software technology allows other application software that has been compiled for one processor/operating system to be run on another processor/operating system without any source code or binary changes. Transitive recently announced its QuickTransit® product line and expects to announce customer successes by the end of 2004.

Criteria for The Sunday Times Microsoft Tech Track 100

Companies are ranked according to their annual growth rate in sales between 2001 and 2003. Companies had to be registered in the U.K. as unquoted ultimate holding companies. The league table adopts the London Stock Exchange’s techMARK definition of what constitutes a technology company. Companies primarily engaged in simply reselling or reassembling were excluded, as were companies mainly engaged in online activities, such as betting, auctions or retailing. Companies also had to forecast an increase in sales from 2003 to 2004, but were not required to be in profit.

The research was carried out by Fast Track between 15 April and 15 August 2004. All of the companies were interviewed by telephone and a majority were also visited by the Fast Track research team.

Computer OEMs, ISVs, internal software development groups, IT service providers, and agencies interested in QuickTransit® can contact sales@transitive.com to speak to a Transitive representative.

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 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 OEM customers’ migration to new platforms, and makes significantly more software available on hardware platforms. 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 http://www.transitive.com

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