2009-02-16
Birdstep appoints Embedded Tools as new distributor for Germany, Switzerland, and Austria
SEATTLE - February 16, 2008 - Birdstep Technology, Inc. (OSE: BIRD) which offers state-of-the-art embedded database technologies, today announced that it has appointed Embedded Tools GmbH as its new distributor for Germany, Switzerland, Austria, with focus on advanced industrial automation, transport and medical embedded solutions.
"We selected the Raima Database Solutions from Birdstep because these Tools are great solutions for today's complex Embedded Systems. Software has a big and still growing part on the value of today's products, like cars, industry automation solutions or medical devices. Here in Germany there is a lot of demand for a specialized embedded database solution which helps our customers to develop leading edge products faster and with a higher quality. So it is a perfect extension to the product portfolio of Embedded Software Development Tools. We are very happy that we can present such great software to our customers and the German speaking market. It will help our customers and help us to continue the growth." said Reinhold Schmid, Managing director of Embedded Tools GmbH.
"Embedded Tools is the ideal distribution partner for us in the region", said Luca Pagni, Sales Manager EMEA for Birdstep Technology. "We wanted to expand our local presence in Germany, Switzerland and Austria, where we see huge opportunities for our newest product releases, especially in the industrial automation market. Embedded Tools represents a very focused and experienced partner in the embedded space, and this guarantees that our solutions will get more and faster design wins in this region."
Embedded Tools will be presenting the RDM embedded database technology at the Embedded World event to be held 3rd, 4th and 5th of March in Nürnberg, Germany (www.embedded-world.de ) in Hall 11-239.
About Embedded Tools
Embedded Tools is a privately held company based in Münster Germany that provides leading edge
Software Development Tools for Embedded Systems from selected vendors. Working as a focused
Distributor of Tools which are compliant to the slogan "Life is too short for bad Tools!" has a
lot of advantages for the customers. Embedded Tools has more than 20 year history in this market.
This experience plus local support by people who know what Embedded Systems Development really
means, gives customers the solution they need to develop their products fast, efficiently and
without headaches. Embedded Tools provides Tools for all the different tasks needed: Modeling,
Development, Code Generation, Emulation and Debugging, RTOS and System software, GUI/HMI Design,
BIOS for Embedded x86 Systems and now a Database solution. For more information, please visit
Embedded Tools at http://www.embedded-tools.de.
About The Raima Database Manager Family
Raima Inc. released the first version of the Raima embedded database in 1984. Since then the family has grown into two successful embedded database products. RDM Embedded pioneered the embedded market space under the name dbVista. Building on the success of RDM Embedded, Raima released the product in a client/server configuration under the name Velocis, now called RDM Server. Please find free SDK downloads of the RDM Products at www.raima.com/downloads.
About Raima Inc.
Raima Inc. is a leading provider of high-performance, real-time, always on, embedded databases for both in-memory database usage and persistent storage devices. Raima Database Managers are found in everything from low cost real-time applications to high performance, high-availability application. With over 20 000 developers enjoying the flexibility of these COTS databases, the products are currently successfully deployed in over 25 million systems.
For further press information please contact Paul Johnson at Raima Inc.:
Tel: (206) 748-5300
Email: marketing@raima.com
Website: www.raima.com