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2005-01-12

Birdstep Database Now Available on Green Hills Software's INTEGRITY RTOS Platform

BirdstepTechnology's RDM Embedded 7 Now Runs on Green Hills Software's INTEGRITY Real-Time Operating System (RTOS)

SEATTLE/OSLO - January 12, 2005 - Birdstep Technology, Inc. (OSE: BIRD) has become a database provider for Green Hills Software, Inc.'s INTEGRITY Real-Time Operating System (RTOS) platform. The INTEGRITY® RTOS is a secure, royalty-free Real-Time Operating System intended for use in embedded systems that require maximum reliability. INTEGRITY represents the most advanced RTOS technology on the market today. Employing the latest in RTOS technology, Green Hills Software designed INTEGRITY from the ground up for 32-bit and 64-bit embedded processors. INTEGRITY achieves unprecedented levels of reliability, availability, and serviceability for applications in telecommunications, defense, networking and medical equipment along with many other industries.

Birdstep's RDM Embedded 7 becomes an important layered solution for the INTEGRITY platform due to RDM Embedded's high-performance, speed and expressiveness. Birdstep's database complements the INTEGRITY RTOS's reliability, high-availability and speed; together forming a powerful solution for business critical needs. General Dynamics in the United Kingdom has recently selected Birdstep RDM Embedded running on the Green Hills Software INTEGRITY platform.

"Birdstep's latest version of RDM Embedded has a rich feature-set and expressiveness that provides key database feature differentiation," commented Dan Mender, Green Hills Software, Director of Business Development. "Birdstep's RDM Embedded meets our INTEGRITY customers' mission critical embedded database needs."

"Green Hills is Software the fastest growing RTOS vendor, so it was a natural step for Birdstep to port our real-time database to the INTEGRITY RTOS platform. We are looking forward to providing Green Hills Software's customers with the solution for their real-time database needs in a variety of vertical markets, including aerospace and defense, banking, medical, business automation, automotive and telecommunication," said Steinar Sande, CEO Birdstep Technology.

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