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2004-04-28

The Boeing Company Selects Birdstep Technology Database for Aerospace Application

Birdstep Technology will be used as the Database in Boeing's New Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS)

SEATTLE/OSLO- April 28, 2004-- Birdstep Technology (OSE: BIRD) has expanded its presence in the aerospace industry with The Boeing Company's recent purchase of RDM Embedded 7. Boeing will be using Birdstep's RDM Embedded database in their Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS).

The AWACS aircraft employs complex real-time avionic systems to meet the operational objectives of the AWACS' customers. The system responsiveness and reliability are important attributes of the AWACS avionics. All system components must ensure that the operational objectives are not compromised. Boeing selected RDM Embedded because it provides the performance required to ensure that the data, necessary for operation, is available when needed.

The AWACS avionics includes the WindRiver VxWorks 5.5 operating systems, and because RDM Embedded is validated on VxWorks 5.5, selecting RDM Embedded allowed the Boeing engineers to start development immediately. Additionally, the XML interface on RDM Embedded simplified the database-loading task.

"Birdstep's RDM Embedded was an easy selection because it offers all of the functionality we needed on our target platform. Birdstep has consistently exhibited exceptional cooperation to meet all of our business demands including providing source code for the database," according to a Boeing spokesperson.

Birdstep's RDM Embedded is a feature-rich database ideal for embedding into critical applications. RDM Embedded provides exceptional performance and reliability in a small footprint. The combination of features, performance and size has made RDM Embedded popular for a variety of applications.

"Birdstep is committed to making RDM Embedded the database of choice for the aerospace industry. We are driven to provide companies like Boeing with a fast and resilient database for their critical applications while meeting their business objectives," said Tom Clark, Birdstep Technology, Inc. CEO.

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