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Concurrent Gets on Board with Lifeboat; Lifeboat Distribution's Sales and Marketing Teams to Further Accelerate Concurrent's NightStar LX(TM) Suite of Real-Time Linux Application Tools to Developers.


DULUTH, Ga. -- Concurrent (NASDAQ NASDAQ
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:CCUR CCUR Center for Crops Utilization Research ), a leading provider of time-critical Linux operating systems Operating systems can be categorized by technology, ownership, licensing, working state, usage, and by many other characteristics. In practice, many of these groupings may overlap.  and tools for mission-critical applications, today announced their NightStar LX suite of real-time Linux application development tools will now be made available to over 6,000 worldwide resellers through Lifeboat Distribution, Inc. (NASDAQ: PROG), an international wholesale provider of software development tools, utilities and other technology benefiting computer software resellers. Through this agreement, Concurrent seeks to provide developers everywhere with the necessary tools to truly harness the processing power of emerging dual and multi-core computing environments.

Concurrent's NightStar is an integrated set of debugging tools especially valuable for developing complex, time-critical Linux applications. Under the terms of the non-exclusive reseller agreement, Lifeboat Distribution will provide sales and marketing support for the NightStar LX tools which are specifically designed to build enhanced, real-time applications on Red Hat(R) Enterprise 4 Linux environments. Over the past 20 years, Lifeboat Distribution has established strong relationships with thousands of resellers who can count on them to supply top software products and outstanding customer service at competitive prices.

"NightStar has long been popular with customers developing time-critical applications on Concurrent Linux and UNIX-based platforms, and we have now expanded the reach of our tools to encompass Red Hat Enterprise 4 environments," said Gary Beerman, Director of Concurrent Marketing. "NightStar LX offers many features that aren't available in the GNU debugger The GNU Debugger, usually called just GDB, is the standard debugger for the GNU software system. It is a portable debugger that runs on many Unix-like systems and works for many programming languages, including Ada, C, C++, FreeBASIC, and Fortran.  and commercial Linux toolsets, better enabling developers to tackle complicated applications for new multi-core processors."

Time-critical applications require debugging tools that can handle the complexities of multiple processors, multitask interaction and multithreading Multitasking within a single program. It allows multiple streams of execution to take place concurrently within the same program, each stream processing a different transaction or message. . Unlike other debuggers, NightStar LX lets you run your program at actual application speeds. NightStar LX also allows you to graphically display application execution and understand how it interacts with itself and with the Linux operating system operating system (OS)

Software that controls the operation of a computer, directs the input and output of data, keeps track of files, and controls the processing of computer programs.
. The NightStar LX suite includes the NightView(TM) source-level debugger (programming, tool) source-level debugger - A debugger that shows the programmer the line or expression in the source code that resulted in a particular machine code instruction of a running program loaded in memory. , the NightTrace(TM) event analyzer, the NightProbe(TM) data monitor and the NightTune(TM) system and application tuner.

NightStar LX's advanced features enable system builders to solve difficult problems quickly. The tools are non-intrusive and have minimal impact on an application. The graphics-based tools reduce test time, increase productivity and lower development costs. NightStar tools are especially useful for application development on new Intel(R) and AMD (Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA, www.amd.com) A major manufacturer of semiconductor devices including x86-compatible CPUs, embedded processors, flash memories, programmable logic devices and networking chips. (TM) Dual-Core processor based systems because of their capabilities to debug To correct a problem in hardware or software. Debugging software means locating the errors in the source code (the program logic). Debugging hardware means finding errors in the circuit design (logical circuits) or in the physical interconnections of the circuits.  in a broad variety of multiprocessing environments.

"We're delighted with the opportunity to distribute Concurrent's powerful, advanced application development tools suite to the channel," said Dan Jamieson, Vice President and General Manager, Lifeboat Distribution Services. "Concurrent's real-time development solutions will make a strong addition to the product line card that we offer to our expansive, worldwide network of reseller partners."

NightStar LX is currently available on any Intel P4, Intel Xeon(R) or AMD Opteron(TM) system running Red Hat Linux Red Hat Linux, assembled by Red Hat, was a popular, "middle-aged" Linux distribution (not as old as Slackware but older than Ubuntu) upon its discontinuation in 2004.[1]

Red Hat Linux 1.0 was released on November 3, 1994.
 Enterprise 4. Supported languages include C, C++ and Fortran compiled with either GNU gnu (n) or wildebeest (wĭl`dəbēst'), large African antelope, genus Connochaetes.  or Intel compilers.

To place an order for Concurrent's NightStar LX developer suite, please contact Lifeboat Distribution at: 1-800-847-7078, or visit: http://www.lifeboatdistribution.com.

About Lifeboat Distribution

Lifeboat Distribution is an international wholesale provider of software development tools, utilities, and other technically related products to computer software resellers. The company provides pre-sale consultative advice, in-depth product information, licensing options, and marketing programs in support of its select group of technical software lines. Lifeboat Distribution services thousands of solution providers, VARs, consultants, corporate resellers, and retailers worldwide. For more details on how you can purchase Concurrent products through Lifeboat Distribution, please contact a sales representative toll-free in the U.S. at (800) 847-7078 or see its Web site at http://www.lifeboatdistribution.com/index.pasp.

About Concurrent

Concurrent (NASDAQ: CCUR) is a leading provider of high-performance, real-time Linux software and solutions for commercial and government markets. For 40 years Concurrent's best-of-breed products have enabled a range of time-critical solutions including: modeling and simulation, high speed data acquisition, visual imaging, low latency Low latency allows human-unnoticeable delays between an input being processed and the corresponding output providing real time characteristics. This can be especially important for internet connections utilizing services such as online gaming and VOIP - VOIP is not as important as  transaction processing Updating the appropriate database records as soon as a transaction (order, payment, etc.) is entered into the computer. It may also imply that confirmations are sent at the same time.

Transaction processing systems are the backbone of an organization because they update constantly.
 and on-demand television. Concurrent's on-demand television applications are utilized by major service providers in the cable and IPTV (Internet Protocol TV) Also called "TV over IP," IPTV delivers scheduled TV programs and video-on-demand (VOD) via the IP protocol and digital streaming techniques used to watch video on the Internet.  industries to deliver video-on-demand (VOD See video-on-demand.

VoD - video on demand
). Concurrent is a global company with regional offices in North America, Europe, Asia and Australia, and has products actively deployed in more than 24 countries. Concurrent's products and services are recognized for being uniquely flexible, comprehensive, robust and reliable. For more information, please visit www.ccur.com.

Certain statements made or incorporated by reference in this release may constitute "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the federal securities laws. Statements regarding future events and development and our future performance, as well as our expectations, beliefs, plans, estimates, or projections relating to the future, are forward-looking statements within the meaning of these laws. These forward looking statements include, among others, statements regarding our success with Lifeboat Distribution, our products, release schedules, and product development. All forward-looking statements are subject to certain risks and uncertainties that could cause actual events to differ materially from those projected. Such risks and uncertainties include our ability to meet release schedules,partner expectations, customer demands, accomplish development goals, integrate our products, and deploy integrated solutions.

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