Press Release

Combined Solution Delivers Network Attached Processing to Caucho’s Resin Java Application Server Featuring Load Balancing

MOUNTAIN VIEW, California – June 30, 2005– Azul Systems™ Inc., the pioneers of the industry's first network attached processing solution designed to unbound compute resources for Java™- and J2EE™ platform-based applications, today announced an alliance with Caucho Technology Inc. to jointly provide customers with a high-performance Java application server that can access Azul network attached processing technology. Caucho's Resin product provides numerous features to developers including fast performance, low cost, ease of use and full access to source code. With Azul™ Compute Appliances and Resin, companies will cost-effectively obtain massive scalability and reliability for Java-based applications that perform under extremely heavy loads. The companies also announced joint testing to provide customers with a configuration tuning guide for Caucho Resin®, ensuring optimum performance and scalability.

“Network attached processing and Caucho's Resin provides an extremely scalable Java platform that is suitable for the most heavily trafficked websites,” said Shahin Khan , vice president and chief marketing officer for Azul Systems. “The combined solution will enable customers to dramatically improve server performance and eliminate capacity planning at the individual application level, allowing them to lower the total cost of ownership for their infrastructures.”

“Resin's ease of use makes it the perfect Java application server platform for environments requiring performance, stability, clustering and load balancing,” said Steve Montal, co-founder and director of sales and partnerships at Caucho Technology. “By adding network attached processing from Azul, our customers will be able to consolidate applications and servers, further reducing the cost and complexity of scaling their deployments.”

About Caucho Technology, Inc.
Caucho Technology, Inc., founded in 1998, is focused on developing high performance and affordable Java software. Caucho's Resin is the application server software of choice used by 4,000 clients including governments and Fortune 500 companies. Caucho is based in La Jolla , California and is a Sun Microsystems J2EE licensee.

About Azul Systems
Azul Systems™ has pioneered the industry's first network attached processing solution, designed to unbound compute resources for virtual machine based applications. Without any application level modifications, binary compatibility requirements or operating system dependencies, this fundamentally new approach eliminates the need to capacity plan at the application level and dramatically lowers the cost and complexity associated with the traditional delivery of computing resources. More information on Azul Systems can be found at www.azulsystems.com .

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