2010-01-19
Raima signs new Turkish embedded database distributor

SEATTLE, WA January 20, 2010 – Raima, a Birdstep Technology company (OSE: BIRD), which offers state-of-the-art embedded database technologies for real-time and embedded systems, today announced the addition of G3Tek to its growing family of distributors. G3Tek will be representing Raima’s RDM products within the Turkish market.
G3Tek is a leading provider of advance software solutions within the real-time and embedded systems market. Their clients include three of the largest real-time operating system vendors in the industry and they have a strong presence in the aerospace space and defense market. The Raima embedded database products are a natural extension to G3Tek’s current portfolio of software solutions for the embedded market.
"Raima brings to this partnership an established track record within the industry." "Our customer list includes some of Turkey’s biggest names in defense and aerospace." "Many of the projects we work on with these clients can benefit greatly with the use of an embedded database." "Raima’s proven real-time embedded database technologies, RDM Embedded and RDM Server, are ideal for those projects," said Celal Aygün, Product Manager of G3Tek.
"G3Tek provides Raima with the local presence and more importantly the technical expertise which will help us to provide the best product experience for the Turkish market," said Luca Pagni, Sales Manager EMEA for Raima. "There already exist several key clients that can reap the benefits of this new partnership."
About G3Tek
G3Tek was founded by a team of real-time and embedded systems professionals with over 15 years of experience
in the Turkish embedded market. G3Tek’s products and services support companies in the embedded space with
BSP/Driver development services on known RTOSes, high quality product offerings and related training &
consultancy services. G3Tek’s product offerings extend from RT-UML, SysML to RTOS and automated unit & system
testing solutions, with complementary services. Further information is available on the G3Tek website at:
http://www.g3tek.com
About The Raima Database Manager Family
Raima released the first version of the Raima embedded database in 1984. Since then the family has grown into three 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
Raima, a wholly owned subsidiary of Birdstep Technology ASA, 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:
Tel: (206) 748-5300
Email: marketing@raima.com
Website: www.raima.com
