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DAILY NEWS AND INFORMATION FOR THE GLOBAL GRID COMMUNITY / FEBRUARY 03, 2003: VOL. 2 NO. 5

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AVAKI PACKAGES NEW GRID SOFTWARE INTRODUCTION KIT

Avaki Quick Connect provides easy-to-deploy, cost-effective solution to immediately solve data access and IT resource challenges

Avaki Corporation, a leader in commercial grid software solutions, today introduced Avaki Quick Connect, a packaged solution that will provide organizations with a fast and easily deployable introduction to Avaki's newest grid software solutions -- Avaki Data Grid 3.0 and Avaki Comprehensive Grid 3.0.

Avaki Quick Connect is available through June 30, 2003 to demonstrate the capabilities of Avaki Data Grid 3.0 and Avaki Comprehensive Grid 3.0 to deliver immediate ROI by dramatically improving productivity while reducing infrastructure cost and complexity. Avaki software delivers immediate ROI to companies in industries such as life sciences, manufacturing and oil and gas, who rely on data to drive critical business objectives.

Today, companies are using Avaki software to eliminate data access bottlenecks that can stifle productivity, and ultimately slow time to market. Avaki offers these companies a practical, innovative solution to gain immediate wide-area access to federated data, dramatically improving collaborative work across distributed sites and organizations, and significantly reducing product development time.

Unique in its ability to rapidly deploy a cost effective software solution, Avaki is helping global companies boost productivity by eliminating the need to navigate complex, heterogeneous IT infrastructures and systems to access data.

"Avaki's unique grid software is currently helping companies in a variety of industries overcome significant data and IT challenges, thereby improving their ability to compete," said Gary Phillips, Avaki's Sr. VP of Sales, Marketing and Services.

"With the Avaki Quick Connect program, we are providing an opportunity for companies to experience first hand the benefits of deploying our best-of-breed solution so they can immediately realize the benefits of access to the valuable data that is needed to increase the speed of product development." Avaki Data Grid 3.0 Avaki Data Grid 3.0 creates a federated data service that enables the secure sharing of data among wide-area, multi-organizational users and applications.

With Avaki Data Grid, companies eliminate costly organizational and technical barriers to data sharing, while creating a flexible, J2EE-based access infrastructure that installs quickly and easily and scales to meet business requirements. Avaki Comprehensive Grid 3.0 Avaki Comprehensive Grid 3.0 provides wide-area access to processing, data, and application resources in a single, uniform operating environment.

Combining the benefits of Avaki Compute Grid and Avaki Data Grid, Avaki Comprehensive Grid unifies processing and data resources across locations and administrative domains with different hardware, operating systems, and system configurations, creating a federated environment that is secure and easy to administer.

Pricing and Availability

Available immediately, Avaki Quick Connect for Avaki Data Grid 3.0 is priced at $35,000 and Avaki Quick Connect for Avaki Comprehensive Grid 3.0 is priced at $50,000. Avaki Quick Connect packages include software licenses, deployment services, and one year of maintenance.

About Avaki

Avaki Corporation offers the first commercial grid software solution to address critical data access challenges facing today's enterprise. Avaki's software products federate IT resources across departments and locations, enabling users and applications to access distributed data and processing power as if they were local. Using these products, companies gain dramatic productivity improvements while reducing IT cost and complexity.

Unlike other distributed computing solutions, Avaki's products provide breakthrough data access capabilities, alone or in combination with Avaki's proven compute grid capabilities.

Customers such as Aventis, Infinity, Gene Logic, the North Carolina Bioinformatics Grid project, Pfizer, Structural Bioinformatics and Texas Tech are using Avaki software to reduce and control IT costs, improve efficiency of multi-site or inter-company collaboration, and accelerate product development. Backed by Polaris Venture Partners, General Catalyst, and Sofinnova, Avaki is located in Burlington, Mass.

http://www.avaki.com/AQC

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