Transitive Demonstrates Solaris/SPARC Applications Running on Hitachi BladeSymphony Intel Itanium-Based Server Platform

QuickTransit Virtualization Software Offers Customers Rapid Platform Migration

INTEL DEVELOPER FORUM, San Francisco, Calif. – September 27, 2006 – Transitive® Corporation, the leading provider of software that enables transportability of applications across multiple processor and operating system (OS) pairs, today announced it is working with Hitachi to apply its QuickTransit® virtualization software to allow many applications written for Solaris™/SPARC® platforms to run without source code or binary changes on Hitachi BladeSymphony servers with the Linux® OS and Intel® Itanium® processors. The technology was successfully demonstrated today during the Intel Developer Forum keynote address by Pat Gelsinger, Senior Vice President of Digital Enterprise Group for Intel Corporation.  The Hitachi BladeSymphony and QuickTransit software demonstration will also appear at the Intel Developers Forum in Hitachi booth #406.

The demonstration runs on an eight-way Hitachi BladeSymphony platform with a Dual-Core Intel Itanium Series 9000 processor, with QuickTransit virtualization technology enabling unmodified Solaris/SPARC binaries to run alongside native Linux applications.  The translated applications typically run faster on the Itanium platform than on the native SPARC platform.  Hard and soft (virtualized) partitions allow for a variety of OS support, for example Windows® partitions showcase increased server utilization by consolidating multiple databases, while Oracle back end database support is provided on a separate Linux partition.

“The IDF demonstration provides a clear example of how enterprise platform migration can be dramatically simplified, with minimal disruption to end users,” said Bob Wiederhold, President, and CEO of Transitive Corporation. “We appreciate the work and effort that both Intel and Hitachi have put into this sophisticated demonstration which reflects the complex environments of many enterprise data centers worldwide.”

“We have been so pleased with the initial evaluation of QuickTransit running on Hitachi BladeSymphony servers, that we want our customers to see how quick and easy it really is, ” said Elizabeth King, Vice President and General Manager for the Server Systems Group of Hitachi America, Ltd.  “By eliminating the burdens and uncertainties of application porting, a QuickTransit solution can immediately change a migration decision from doubtful to compelling with unimpeded opportunities for enhanced datacenter performance, scalability, and workload flexibility.”  

“Today the industry has witnessed the first Solaris applications running on an industry standard Itanium processor based platform using Intel Virtualization Technology,” said Kirk Skaugen, Vice President, Digital Enterprise Group at Intel Corporation.  “The demonstration shows how QuickTransit software enables Solaris application environments to easily move to Itanium systems without need for porting or recompiling.”

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 Apple’s 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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