San Francisco, CA - March 18, 2005

San Francisco , CA – March 21, 2005 – Fitech Laboratories Inc., announced today the immediate availability of xTier™ 2.3 for Java consisting of xTier™/GRID, xTier™/CACHE, xTier™/CLUSTER and xTier™/LWC. Building upon the success of xTier™ 2.2 for Java, the latest release adds significant new features as well as numerous product enhancements. The new features in xTier 2.3 include:

• xTier Daemon provides enhanced manageability for large-scale xTier™/GRID deployments across all supported operating systems.
• xTier Shell provides a command line and scriptable interface for managing xTier™/GRID deployments.
• Examples demonstrating integration with, or migration of, C/C++ MPI-based applications to the xTier™/GRID API and platform.
• Enhanced support for xTier™/GRID Jobs (non-splitting tasks)
• Improved dead-lock detection in cache transactions spawning multiple data sources.
• Full pluggable auto-recovery of XA transaction manager
• Out-of-box support for Borland Enterprise Server 6
• New pricing scheme for xTier™/LWC edition.

xTier™/GRID

With the release of xTier™/GRID 2.3 for the xTier Daemon and Shell provide enhanced management facilities for use in large grid deployments. “Using xTier™ Daemon and Shell grid management can be accomplished from one location. Further, in script mode, the xTier™ Shell provides the ability to control xTier™/GRID in an automated fashion”, said Jon Webster, Fitech Laboratories Technical Director. “The addition of the Daemon and Shell greatly simplify the management of an xTier™/GRID”.

xTier/GRID provides a simple to implement and straightforward API and supporting platform to bring the power of grid computing to J2EE enterprise applications. xTier™/GRID-enabled applications enjoy greater and very cost effective scalability and increased reliability over non-grid enabled applications.

xTier™/LWC - Developer Subscription – no runtime royalties!

New for the 2.3 release of xTier™/LWC edition is now available to the developer for an annual subscription of $49.99 that includes unlimited deployment with no runtime royalties. This annual subscription includes all product updates as well as email support. You can purchase xTier™/LWC at a discount through our reseller partners who can be found at http://www.fitechlabs.com/products_xtier_buy.jsp.

“We feel that a subscription pricing model provides the greatest flexibility for our xTier™/LWC customers”, said Nikita Ivanov, Director of Development and Architecture. He went on to add, “The LWC edition provides developers with a very attractive price point and a unique collection of high-quality services that are supported by the Fitech Labs R&D organization. xTier™/LWC edition customers can be confident that we’ll be here to support them if they need us.”

xTier™/GRID is a grid computing platform and API designed specifically for J2EE applications and application developers. Using xTier™/GRID developers can grid-enable their applications quickly and easily and increase application scalability and reliability.

xTier™/CACHE is a high-performance distributed cache for use in J2EE environments.

xTier™/CLUSTER provides robust capabilities to the application developer for developing fault-tolerant, clustered applications.

xTier™/LWC is a collection of over 20 services for use in enterprise application development implemented using the principles of Inversion of Control (IoC) and Service Oriented Design (SOD).

Availability

xTier™ 2.3 for Java has been released for the Windows, Solaris and Linux platforms and is available immediately at: http://www.fitechlabs.com/

CONTACT:  marketing@fitechlabs.com

About Fitech Laboratories, Inc.
Fitech Laboratories, Inc. is a leading provider of next generation software middleware technologies. By combining industry standards, service-oriented development expertise and latest technologies, Fitech Laboratories, Inc. enables organizations to drastically reduce development time and Total Cost of Ownership (TCO), while benefiting from a highly extensible, fast and reliable software infrastructure.

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