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2005-07-20

Thales has Entered into a Company Wide Site License to Use Birdstep RDM Embedded in Thales and Magellan-branded PC-based Applications

SEATTLE/OSLO - July 20, 2005 - Birdstep Technology (OSE: BIRD) today announced that Thales' navigation business has entered into a company wide site license for RDM Embedded 7.1 to embed the product within the Company's Thales and Magellan-branded PC-based applications. RDM Embedded 7.1 became Thales' database of choice because of its ability to reduce code to less than 100K with compression, without sacrificing performance, making RDM Embedded the premium database for resource constrained GPS devices.

Thales chose Birdstep's RDM Embedded database not only for its performance, and the ability to reduce the code to less than 100K with compression, but RDM Embedded 7.1 provides easy cross-platform portability. Thales currently targets the WinCE platform, with future plans to expand support to other platforms.

"To develop an embedded mapping engine we were looking for a database that has a small code footprint but allowed rich functionality and high processing efficiency in handling semantic information. We were also looking for a product that would provide us with a set of PC tools to prepare and analyze the data. RDM Embedded fit the bill," explained Dr. Anatole Lokshin, Vice President of Data Products and Technology for Thales' navigation business. "Birdstep offered an extremely solid code base, a rich set of functionality in a footprint under 100K, an efficient and convenient set of PC tools and a professional services team that was able to specially customize the product to provide us the flexibility we required - this made Birdstep an easy selection for our mapping products."

RDM Embedded is currently used in the Magellan line of MapSend software solutions, which contain highly detailed maps that can be easily downloaded from your PC to your handheld GPS receiver. Map details include streets, lakes, rivers, coastlines, parks, hunting and fishing, railways and points of interest.

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