VIE's Copernicus Extends Capabilities of Talarian SmartSockets; Patented Application Integration Product Linked With Middleware.

LYNDHURST, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 18, 1998--VIE Systems Inc. and Talarian Corp. today announced a joint sales and marketing relationship that will enable Talarian SmartSockets users to implement powerful, real-time, application-to-application message transformation and intelligent message routing capabilities quickly and easily.

"The integration of SmartSockets with Copernicus offers a complete solution for implementing the zero-latency enterprise," said Paul Larson, president and CEO of Talarian. "Combining the industry's most reliable middleware with the most robust translation engine offers businesses an unparalleled solution."

SmartSockets is a complete publish-subscribe middleware solution that provides the industry's richest application programming interfaces (API) and class libraries, enabling development of distributed systems faster than any other publish-subscribe middleware product. SmartSockets allows project teams to create real-time, highly distributed applications in dynamic, heterogeneous environments. It offers 100 percent fault tolerance, high performance and unlimited scalability. SmartSockets is used for the most demanding, high performance applications in areas such as financial trading, traffic control systems, satellite ground control systems, semiconductor manufacturing and telecommunications fraud detection.

"With Copernicus embedded in SmartSockets, the need to write custom interface code is eliminated and message transformation routines can be implemented using an intuitive graphical user interface," said John Brann, vice president of technology for VIE Systems.

"This offering will pair the industry's fastest publish-subscribe middleware offering with VIE's content-based message reformatting capabilities," added Eric LeGoff, president and chief executive officer of VIE Systems. "This solution offers a scalable, highly distributable data transformation package for seamlessly integrating applications across the enterprise."

According to a July 1998 research note by Roy Schulte, a vice president at Gartner Group, an IT advisory firm, "Enterprises with a fast reaction time have a competitive advantage. They sell more product, deliver better customer service, and capitalize on new business opportunities sooner than their competitors. Newly emerging 'zero-latency enterprise' strategies take the goal of timeliness to its logical extreme: their goal is instantaneous awareness and appropriate response to events across an entire enterprise or beyond."

VIE's Copernicus uses a non-invasive message-oriented middleware approach to enterprise-wide application integration. It facilitates application integration often reducing time and cost.

The SmartSockets/Copernicus solution is available on the Windows NT platform with availability on several UNIX implementations soon to follow.

Talarian Corp., founded in 1989, is a veteran provider of publish-subscribe middleware to some of the world's largest and/or fastest growing businesses. Customers include The Philadelphia Stock Exchange, MCI, Lockheed Martin, Nortel, PG&E, and PLATINUM Technology, Inc. A member of the Message-Oriented Middleware Association (MOMA) and the Object Management Group (OMG), Talarian is a privately held company headquartered at 333 Distel Circle, Los Altos, Calif., 94022. Phone: [phone]. URL: www.talarian.com.

VIE Systems is a privately held company focused on providing application integration products, services and solutions to organizations worldwide. VIE's flagship product, Copernicus, is the only patented Enterprise Application Integration software package providing the fastest and most cost-effective solution for integrating disparate applications across the enterprise. VIE products are sold through its direct sales force, third-party distributors and strategic partners.

VIE Systems is headquartered at 9 Polito Avenue, Lyndhurst, N.J. 07071, minutes outside of New York City, with additional offices in Denver, London and Zurich. For more information on VIE Systems, visit the company's web site at www.viesystems.com or call 201/804-9824.