TradeStone Software Available with Apache Tomcat; Enables Customers to Deploy Unified Buying Engine on a Flexible, Low-Cost, Open Source Platform.

GLOUCESTER, Mass. -- TradeStone Software, the leader in delivering domestic and international sourcing, product lifecycle management and order management through the Unified Buying Process(TM), today announced that the TradeStone Suite can now be deployed on Apache Tomcat. This is in direct response to customer demand for TradeStone's award-winning software to run on low-cost and flexible platforms, as both large and small companies run mission-critical applications on Apache Tomcat.

"The TradeStone vision for global sourcing has always meant creating a level playing field for all retailers, manufacturers and suppliers," said TradeStone CEO Sue Welch. "This means making our technology flexible enough to run on a multitude of Web platforms so it can easily and affordably fit in with the needs of clients worldwide."

The TradeStone Suite is a set of Web-based application modules which creates exclusive commerce communities of retail buyers, suppliers, trading companies, agents and inspectors. The solution modules include Product, Sourcing, Logistics, Finance, Product Lifecycle Management and Unified Order Management. Together the solution provides retailers with the technology infrastructure they need to manage all aspects of the purchasing process, from the concept design and planning refinement to publishing RFQs and selecting bids, from the initiation of an order through quality testing and production, to shipment and financial reconciliation, while providing a real-time view into each step.

"Certifying The TradeStone Suite on Apache Tomcat is yet another manifestation of our core software design philosophy," stated Kamal Anand, vice president of engineering at TradeStone. "It is our goal to make our solutions approachable, flexible and affordable for all parties in our Commerce Communities and offer options for the wide array of IT departments we have in our customer base."

The Apache Tomcat open source web servlet container complements TradeStone's own model-based Data Anywhere architecture which also drives down IT costs by eliminating the need for redundant databases. With this architecture, the TradeStone Suite accesses data from multiple applications without copying or replicating the data and ultimately eliminates the need for modifying existing applications. The Data Anywhere architecture can accept data from a variety of data sources and formats and allows an application to provide a unified view of transactions where constituent data are located in several different databases. The TradeStone data-anywhere architecture is implemented using accepted industry standards for web services and xml documents and is built on J2EE technology. Apache Tomcat is robust and secure to power these transactions, without a large IT infrastructure.

The TradeStone Suite for Apache Tomcat is available immediately.

About TradeStone Software, Inc.

TradeStone Software enables retailers and manufacturers to plan, design, collaborate on and purchase goods from across the world as easily as from across the street. TradeStone's Unified Buying Engine uses Web services technology to layer across an organization's existing infrastructure while its modular software fills in buying process gaps to provide a single view, access and interaction across the entire procurement process. The first and only complete solution for global sourcing, product lifecycle management and unified order management, TradeStone's intuitive, "No Training" technology helps people throughout the supply chain to collaborate globally, enabling users to focus on speeding innovative products to market. Marquee customers include American Eagle Outfitters, The Children's Place, Deutsche Woolworth, Ocean State Job Lot, Pacific Alliance and Federated Department Stores. TradeStone Software is based in Gloucester, Mass. and can be found on the Web at www.TradeStoneSoftware.com.