LOS GATOS, CA August 27, 2002 - Fiorano Software Inc. and Pramati Technologies today announced a relationship that will enable enterprises to extend and enhance their IT infrastructure at a reduced TCO. The two organizations will work together on technology and marketing initiatives focusing on the global e-business and integration markets.

Pramati, the widely regarded application server and development tools provider, provides end-to-end tools for development, deployment, and management of J2EE solutions. Pramati Server is the run-time environment for deploying mission critical enterprise applications and Pramati Studio is the universal development environment for building robust, scalable applications.

Fiorano's Tifosi is a distributed Services Integration Platform that simplifies the composition, deployment, modification and debugging of business processes. Tifosi provides a comprehensive solution for EAI, B2Bi and BPM needs of an organization. Its design, development, debugging and management tools accelerate the development, deployment and dynamic modifications of distributed applications in multiple vertical markets.

Fiorano and Pramati will provide joint solutions to enable their customers to leverage their existing investments in technology. These joint solutions will enable customers to maximize their return of investment in IT by binding information flows and processes along with evolving their infrastructure toward open standards. Development of these solutions leverages Pramati's infrastructure software for developing and deploying enterprise systems and Fiorano's powerful capabilities in application integration and distributed computing infrastructure.

"By adopting standards based technology, Fiorano and Pramati are working together to help companies achieve the maximum value from our integration offerings," said Atul Saini, President and CEO of Fiorano. "Customers receive the greatest benefit when technologies such as Fiorano's Tifosi and Pramati's Application Server work together to improve business efficiencies, manage supply chains and improve customer experiences. Tying Java-based applications into an overall technology infrastructure has been simplified for companies through relationships such as the one formed between Fiorano and Pramati."

"Enterprises across the world are consolidating IT investments by seamlessly extending their existing IT infrastructure and focusing on interoperability and open standards for their new systems", said Jay Pullur, CEO and Co-founder Pramati Technologies. He added "Pramati and Fiorano will provide an ideal combination for these requirements by providing robust platform to integrate legacy systems and effective toolset to deliver new generation infrastructure".

The relationship empowers enterprises with powerful tools to integrate systems across hybrid environments and effective means of building & managing new generation applications.

About Pramati Technologies
Pramati is a provider of Java based e-business infrastructure software for global enterprises. Pramati Server and Studio together are a complete platform designed for ISVs and enterprises to create, deploy, and manage mission-critical applications based on Java™ 2 Enterprise Edition platform, but at a fraction of the cost. The company has its US Head quarters in San Jose CA and World Headquarters in Hyderabad, India. For more information, visit us at www.pramati.com

Fiorano and Tifosi are trademarks or registered trademarks of Fiorano Software, Inc. in the United States and other countries. All other company, product or service names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders.

About Fiorano Software
Founded in 1995, and serving hundreds of customers worldwide, Fiorano is a leading provider of standards-based messaging middleware solutions. FioranoMQT is a JMS messaging server that supports mission-critical applications at Alcatel, AT&T Wireless, Ericsson, FedEx, JP Morgan and KPMG. Headquartered in Los Gatos, California, Fiorano can be reached on the web at www.fiorano.com.

Fiorano and Tifosi are trademarks or registered trademarks of Fiorano Software, Inc. in the United States and other countries. All other company, product or service names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders.

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