2010-02-25

Icon Design Automation of India Joins the Growing Worldwide Network of Raima Resellers

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SEATTLE, WA February 25, 2010 – Raima, a Birdstep Technology Company (OSE: BIRD), which offers state-of-the-art embedded database technologies, today announced that Icon Solutions is the latest addition to reseller network. A well respected provider of embedded solutions within India’s fast growing technology industry, Icon Solutions has added RDM Embedded and RDM Server as the embedded database product offering within their product offerings.

"Raima realizes that in order to better serve the embedded systems market within India we need to partner with the best technology firms within that local market," stated Steinar Sande, Raima’s CEO. "We believe Icon Design Automation’s proven success and true professionalism will provide the means to best serve our customers within India."

Icon Design Automation has been a key player in the India embedded systems market since 1997 and have a proven track recorded within the Industry. Their customers include some of the most innovative firms in India and the world. Several of these clients have projects that include requirements for an embedded database. It was these customers who introduced Icon to Raima resulting in this great new partnership.

"Raima Database Management Software is gaining a very positive reputation for its high performance and broad market support," remarked R Varalakshmi, CEO of ICON. "We are delighted to be associated with such a leading-edge, industry-proven product for the Indian market."

About Icon Design Automation PVT, LTD
ICON Design Automation, seeded in 1997 and has established itself as a Premier EDA Solutions provider, through its association with leading edge companies in the domains of EMBEDDED, VLSI, HIGH-FREQUENCY Design, Foundary Services and Packaging. Team ICON has extensive experience and has been extremely successful in delivering quality end-to-end technology solutions to its customers.

Over the years ICON has been associated with companies of the likes of Synplicity Inc, Verplex Inc, AWR Inc. Etc and have been successful in effective implementation of their sales/marketing strategies for the Indian market.

Through its offices at New Delhi, Hyderabad and Bangalore, 100% coverage the Indian Design Community is ensured. The sales team is backed up and ably supported by a strong team of Field Applications Engineer’s to provide pre and post sales technical support.

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