WebPutty Announces General Availability of the WebPutty Application Platform 7.0; Features Support for Microsoft Visual Studio .NET and Rational XDE Integration.

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SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 14, 2003

WebPutty, Inc., a leading provider of service-oriented architecture (SOA) tools and runtimes today announced the general availability of the WebPutty Application Platform 7.0, a unified development, integration, and maintenance platform for Web-enabled corporate applications.

"As applications get larger and more integrated, it becomes really difficult for developers to manage all of the complexity and interdependencies," said Terry Hanold, executive vice president of market development at WebPutty. "By enabling the platform to manage and repair applications automatically, WebPutty makes the development of .NET applications much easier."

"The WebPutty Application Platform stands out as one of the most comprehensive tools for enabling developers build service-oriented architectures (SOA) on top of existing architectures on the market today," said Jason Bloomberg, senior analyst at ZapThink, LLC. "WebPutty has thought through the capabilities needed to build SOAs, and incorporated these abilities into a set of tools that can help developers both understand service orientation and build working SOAs quickly and efficiently."

The WebPutty Application Platform provides benefits across the application lifecycle, automating and optimizing applications both during development, and throughout the maintenance and upgrade cycle. The WebPutty Application Platform consists of two components: the WebPutty Developer Studio and the WebPutty Server.

The WebPutty Developer Studio features provides a single, common environment for both n-tier and service-oriented development. It augments existing IDEs and modeling tools with next-generation automation, integration and SOA functionality. New features in version 7.0 include:

-- Integration with Microsoft Visual Studio .NET and Rational XDE 

enables developers to move seamlessly between code, service,

and model-based development.

-- Unified n-tier development environment enables developers to

work at all tiers of an application, including database,

middle-tier, Web services, and Web UI.

-- Standards-based APIs for extendibility, enabling developers to

move quickly between traditional development tools and the

WebPutty Application Platform

Other key features in the WebPutty Developer Studio include:

-- Embedded .NET design practices and automated best-practices

implementation

-- Automated integration, including full support for Web

services, databases, and business objects; WebPutty

automatically discovers assets and writes integration code,

enabling developers to focus on adding functionality

-- Integrated modeling gives developers advanced visualization

tools, including entity relationship diagrams (ERDs), object

models, n-tier dependency mapping and UI flows

The WebPutty Server automatically maintains, optimizes and upgrades applications once they have been deployed. The WebPutty Server extends Microsoft Visual Studio .NET, adding next-generation self-management and self-healing functionality to applications. Key features include:

-- Advanced release management services, including menu-driven

installation and hot upgrades to running applications

-- Enterprise-class deployment architectures, including support

for clustering, partitioning, session management, caching,

connection pooling, and multi-server clustered deployments.

-- Automated maintenance and optimization, including automatic

re-optimization of applications to support changes or upgrades

in underlying databases or servers

"Microsoft is excited to see the many new enhancements and features included in the WebPutty Application Platform 7.0," said Tom Button, vice president, Developer and Platform Evangelism Division at Microsoft Corp. "The WebPutty Developer Studio is a great example of integration with Microsoft Visual Studio .NET."

Pricing and Availability

The WebPutty Developer Studio is free. The WebPutty Server licenses are $35,000 per CPU.

About WebPutty

WebPutty, Inc. provides technologies that extend n-tier platforms such as Microsoft .NET and Web services with next-generation automation and management capabilities. WebPutty takes a life-cycle approach to applications, providing a unified environment for development, integration, and maintenance of service-oriented architecture (SOA) applications. By adding self-managing and self-healing capabilities to distributed platforms, WebPutty dramatically reduces the risks, hidden costs, and complexity of building, integrating and maintaining enterprise and government applications. For more information, please visit www.webputty.com or call [phone]

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