AmberPoint Provides Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2 Developers with SOA Monitoring and Management Capabilities; AmberPoint Developer's Edition Software Ships with Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2.

OAKLAND, Calif. -- AmberPoint, Inc., the leading provider of SOA management solutions, today announced that through its continued relationship with Microsoft, the developers edition of AmberPoint's industry-leading SOA management software has been distributed in the box with the Beta 2 release of Microsoft Visual Studio(R) 2005 Team System. AmberPoint Express was also bundled with Beta 1 of Microsoft Visual Studio 2005, distributed in July 2004.

"By combining AmberPoint Express with Visual Studio 2005 Team System, developers can fine-tune Web services before deployment," said Rick LaPlante, General Manager of Visual Studio Team System at Microsoft. "We're pleased to offer AmberPoint Express with Visual Studio 2005 Team System."

"More than 3,000 organizations across sixty-three countries are using AmberPoint Express to quickly and cost-effectively build, validate and deploy Web services," said John Hubinger, president and CEO of AmberPoint. "We will continue to work closely with Microsoft to build and distribute SOA management technologies that aid the development and adoption of Web services based on the .NET Framework."

AmberPoint Express provides rich monitoring and diagnostic capabilities that enable developers to analyze and fine-tune their Web services. Developers building business-critical Web services on the .NET Framework receive the following benefits:

--Real-time insight into the performance and behavior of Web services in test environments, enabling fine-tuning before deployment

--A rich set of capabilities that are tightly integrated into Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team System

--Improvement of the speed, efficiency and cost-effectiveness of preparing Web services for production

--AmberPoint Express is aligned with the Microsoft Dynamic Systems Initiative (DSI), aiding in the application development life cycle.

About AmberPoint

AmberPoint is the leading provider of management software for service-oriented architectures (SOA). With its modular, distributed architecture, AmberPoint radically simplifies the management and evolution of service-based business solutions. For more information, contact AmberPoint at 510.663.6300 or [e-mail], or visit the company website at www.amberpoint.com for a complimentary developer's edition of AmberPoint software.

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