Rapid Logic and Enea OSE Systems Announce Partnership.

Business/Technology Editors

DALLAS and ALAMEDA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 27, 2000

RapidControl(TM) Internet-based device management software suite provides single-click integration with OSE to shorten time to market for joint customers

Enea OSE Systems and Rapid Logic, Inc. today announced a partnership designed to offer joint customers a unified solution that shortens time-to-market. Enea OSE Systems is a technological leader for real-time operating systems, and Rapid Logic is the industry-leading provider of intelligent, Internet-based device management software. The partnership will enable both companies to more quickly and effectively serve customers integrating remote system management capabilities into their embedded applications.

Rapid Logic and Enea OSE Systems share a significant number of joint customers, particularly in the areas of high-end telecom and datacom network device platforms. By combining the strength of these two technology leaders, customers can achieve faster time-to-market and longer time-in-market for their intelligent network device platforms.

This partnership also extends to product development. In the new release of RapidControl, the company's flagship intelligent device management suite, the Rapid Integration Tool Bus offers single click integration with the OSE(TM) real-time operating system (RTOS). This means that customers using OSE and RapidControl together can have their core device management up and running in a matter of hours.

"Increasingly, OSE customers are turning to Rapid Logic's RapidControl as the centerpiece of their device management strategy. This partnership helps us serve our joint customers more effectively," said Mike Dager, President, Enea OSE Systems, Inc.

"We are a very customer-focused company and Enea OSE Systems is clearly gaining momentum in the marketplace. As time to market is everything for our customers, this reduces the barrier to wider adoption of both of our products," said Mark Sigal, Rapid Logic's Chief Executive Officer.

Rapid Logic's RapidControl product suite enables manufacturers of network devices to incorporate remote management capabilities into their products via widely adopted Internet standards. RapidControl for CLI is a command-line interface builder that significantly reduces the development time for creating Cisco style craft command-line interfaces. It can be used alone or in conjunction with other RapidControl products for adding Web- and Java-based management to Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) MIBs and proprietary management data. RapidControl for Web is the industry's leading Web-based management solution. With it, vendors can Web-enable their products in just days, while enabling subsequent graphical user interface (GUI) modifications to occur without any re-engineering or re-compilation of the embedded code. The product has been especially popular because it enables customers to completely outsource management interface development to Web design firms or marketing professionals, saving precious engineering resources. RapidControl for Applets extends the power of Web-based device management with the application-level functionality of Java. It provides dynamic, Java-based, real-time management of a network device using standard JavaBeans(TM) or proprietary applets without embedding a Java Virtual Machine (JVM), using expensive dedicated consoles or requiring Java programming expertise. Finally, MIBway(TM) adds Web-Java- and CLI-based management to SNMP-managed devices without any additional engineering. MIBway can save SNMP-centric device developers literally thousands of hours in time to market.

The OSE RTOS allows applications to be distributed throughout a system in order in order to maximize performance, efficiency and redundancy for high-availability systems. OSE's message-based interprocess communication and Link Handler(TM) enable transparent communication between numerous and different parts of an application, no matter what kind or how many CPUs it is using. In telecommunications applications, this flexibility results in dramatic savings in development costs and time.

About Rapid Logic Inc.

Rapid Logic is the leading provider of intelligent device management software that enables manufacturers of network devices to incorporate remote management capabilities into their products via the Internet. Its RapidControl(TM) product suite unifies all device management functions within a single, robust and integrated framework. This provides vendors the ability to build a variety of management layers quickly and to systematically upgrade and customize management interfaces across multiple product releases and product lines.

RapidControl products are currently deployed by the top 10 device

manufacturers in the datacom, telecom, cable and office automation industries. More than 85 intelligent device manufacturers have deployed RapidControl products on more than 150 platforms. With RapidControl products, device vendors can easily create their own powerful Web-based configuration, access and control applications in a fraction of the time and cost it took previously.

Rapid Logic's customers include established leaders such as Alcatel (NYSE:ALA), Nortel Networks (NYSE:NT/TSE:NTL), Lucent Technologies (NYSE:LU), Hitachi (NYSE:HIT), Fujitsu Networking (OBB:FJTSY), Nokia (NYSE:NOK), Hewlett-Packard (NYSE:HWP), and Cisco Systems (NASDAQ:CSCO) as well as robust upstarts such as Redback Networks (NASDAQ:RBAK) and Tut Systems (NASDAQ:TUTS). Rapid Logic's partners include International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) (NYSE:IBM), Sun Microsystems (NASDAQ:SUNW), and Wind River (NASDAQ:WIND). The company's corporate investors include Intel Corporation and Wind River. Institutional investors include Needham Capital and Sterling Payot Company. For more information, call [phone], send e-mail to [e-mail], or visit the company's Web site at http://www.rapidlogic.com.

About Enea OSE Systems

Enea OSE Systems is the technological leader for real-time operating systems and development tools for building distributed and fault-tolerant real-time applications. A subsidiary of Enea Data (SAXESS: ENEA), Enea OSE Systems employs over 120 persons. The company focuses primarily on development in telecom, datacom, wireless and safety-critical industries. Other companies working with real-time operating systems include Wind River Systems (NASDAQ: WIND), Lynx Real-Time Systems, Inc., and QNX Software Systems Ltd. For more information, please visit http://www.enea.com.

Note to Editors: OSE is a trademark of Enea OSE Systems. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.