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Transitive® Boosts European Presence by Adding Morse plc to Its Expanding Global Network of Partners

Morse Offers Outstanding IT Consulting and Services Skills to Support Growing Demand for Server Migration in European Market

LOS GATOS, Calif., – April 10, 2007 – Transitive® Corporation, the leading provider of software that enables transportability of applications across multiple processor and operating system (OS) pairs, today announced the further expansion of its partner network by appointing Morse plc as its first European partner.  Morse is a leading international consulting firm that provides a range of IT services including server migration and data center consolidation solutions. Morse has a network of offices throughout the UK, the Channel Islands, Ireland, France, Luxembourg, Spain, South Africa, USA, Malaysia, Australia and Singapore.

“Early deployments of QuickTransit in the European market have been particularly encouraging, and we are especially pleased to be working with Morse, a leader in global IT services," said Steven Mih, vice president of worldwide sales for Transitive.  “Morse has a well-established reputation for covering the full value chain from advice through to delivery. So the fact that they are now offering our unique, powerful and award-winning QuickTransit technology to their impressive customer base is an endorsement in itself.”

 “Transitive’s QuickTransit technology enhances our existing services offerings, and will provide great benefits to our customers with consolidation and application migration plans,” said Mark Nutt, Partner, Morse plc. “QuickTransit software enables us to migrate Solaris/SPARC applications to Linux.x86-64-based server platforms with unprecedented speed, and with minimum disruption to end users at our customer sites.”

Since its release in November 2006, Transitive’s award-winning QuickTransit software has rapidly gained momentum in the European market. As further recognition of its success, the product was recently awarded the prestigious European ICT Grand Prize at CeBIT 2007 in Hannover, Germany. Described as “the EU’s own ‘Nobel Prize’ for innovation in information and communications technologies,” the European ICT Grand Prize was award to Transitive after the judges had evaluated 450 nominations from 30 countries.

Availability of QuickTransit for Solaris/SPARC-to-Linux/x86-64
The QuickTransit for Solaris/SPARC-to-Linux/x86-64 software has been shipping from Transitive since November 2006, and has already attracted customers worldwide. It is available by contacting Transitive directly and can be downloaded for evaluation or for purchase from the Transitive Web site (www.transitive.com). It is also available directly through Transitive’s global channel partners, which now include:

  1. Morse plc – www.morse.com
  2. MSI Systems Integrators, Inc. - www.msiinet.com
  3. Networld Corporation (in Japan) - www.networld.co.jp
  4. Paradigm Technology - www.pt-corp.com
  5. PKA Technologies – www.pkatech.com
  6. Xcedex - www.xcedex.com
  7. Zot - www.zot.com

About Morse plc
Morse is an international consulting company, offering our clients specialist business and IT advice and helping them execute for maximum benefit. We are a delivery-orientated company with focused industry expertise, combining a powerful blend of management, application and infrastructure consulting skills.

Morse’s reputation is earned through providing essential industry know-how in a flexible and pragmatic style, where clients enjoy the benefits of innovative solutions and confidence from collaborating with a trusted and talented partner.

Morse infrastructure consulting provides technology and integration solutions to clients who want to make their IT more flexible and better aligned to their business goals. We offer services that include; the efficient and effective provisioning of technology, mission critical technology environments that deliver project ROI, flexible resources and architecture strategy and design.

About Transitive Corporation
Transitive is a leader in providing solutions that allow the transportability of software applications across multiple hardware platforms. The company’s QuickTransit® solutions 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 QuickTransit application transport solution allows data center managers to transport legacy enterprise applications quickly and easily from outdated, proprietary hardware to modern, industry-standard platforms without incurring the costs and delays of porting projects, and with no disruption to end users. QuickTransit technology 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.

Transitive Corporation is located in Los Gatos, California with a research and development team in Manchester, United Kingdom. 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 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.

“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.”

Guy Chiarello
Chief Information Officer
Morgan Stanley