Transitive® Software Development Innovation Recognized With Selection as 2007 Finalist for MacRobert Award

Evaluation Committee from The Royal Academy of Engineering Nominates Transitive for the UK’s premier award for innovation in engineering

LONDON, UK, – June 6, 2007 – Transitive® Limited, the leading provider of software that enables transportability of applications across multiple processor and operating system pairs, has been selected as a 2007 Finalist for the MacRobert Award by The Royal Academy of Engineering.

In considering applications for the MacRobert Award, the Evaluation Committee from The Royal Academy of Engineering sought to identify world-leading engineering developments which demonstrate innovation, successful commercial exploitation and benefit to the community. Only four organizations – including Transitive - were selected as 2007 Finalists. In January 2007, Transitive was designated a 2007 Technology Pioneer at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, and in March 2007, the company’s QuickTransit product was awarded the European ICT Grand Prize in Hannover, Germany.

“Transitive is delighted to have been selected as a MacRobert Award Finalist, which is the latest in a series of international accolades bestowed upon the development team and its breakthrough QuickTransit technology,” said Alasdair Rawsthorne, CTO and founder of Transitive.  “This recognition of Transitive’s engineering achievements complements the impressive industry endorsements we have received from business partners that include IBM, Intel, HP and Apple.”

"The QuickTransit technology from Transitive is a truly breakthrough achievement. Not only does it provide a solution to many hitherto intractable software migration problems, but it opens up a new world of exciting possibilities for rethinking the traditional relationship between hardware and software design," said Dr Geoffrey Robinson CBE FREng, Chair of the MacRobert Committee.

About Transitive
Transitive is the leader in providing solutions that allow the transportability of software applications across multiple hardware platforms. The company’s 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 Limited has offices in London and Manchester, UK, in addition to its US offices in Los Gatos, California and New York. For more information, please visit Transitive’s Web site at www.transitive.com.

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