Pramati announces Pramati Server 3.0, Studio 3.0

HYDERABAD: Pramati Technologies, a Hyderabad based company has announced the
availability of the latest versions of its flagship products - Pramati Server
3.0. The product is the industry's first application server to achieve JavaT 2
Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EET) v 1.3 compatibility, and Pramati Studio 3.0
for developers who need an integrated development environment (IDE) for building
J2EE applications.

"Both Pramati products are available now for less than a third of the
cost of popular servers and tools from leading brands like BEA, IBM and Borland.
Pramati Server 3.0 was the first application server to be certified to support
the J2EE 1.3 standard. As a result, Pramati Server 3.0 has all the latest
features for advanced Java software development," said, Jay Pullur, CEO,
Pramati.

Moreover, it was built from the ground-up to support the standard and no
proprietary code has been added. "It carries a high-performance Enterprise
JavaBeansT (EJB) 2.0 container and provides all other expected features for an
industrial-grade server, including load balancing, failover and hot deployment,
as well as remote monitoring via a Web-based console," he added.

Pramati Studio 3.0 provides distributed development teams with a set of
intuitive and intelligent tools that reduce the time and cost of developing
standard enterprise components. It is application server agnostic and supports
direct deployment to several J2EE-compliant app servers, including the popular
servers from BEA and Oracle as well as its own Server 3.0, which is included to
help with testing and debugging code.

It also features a unique migration tool that allows code created with it to
be moved from one application server to another at the touch of a button.
"Quietly advancing for four years now, Pramati has been working on creating
a low-cost alternative to leading platforms from BEA, IBM and others but
targeted for the small-to-medium sized enterprise. We're running into customers
all the time who just need a great server and a great toolset but don't want to
pay platform prices.

That's our customer. The big guys are selling to the Fortune 500 companies
who can afford them," Pullur explained.

Although no formal research has been conducted, Pramati's surveying of
leading analysts suggests that small-to-medium sized enterprises could account
for more than $200 million in application server sales in 2002 and grow in pace
with industry estimates of 50 percent annually. Giga Information Group estimates
the whole application server market to reach $2.25 billion in 2002.