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INTRINSYC ANNOUNCES AGREEMENT W/ SAP FOR ENTERPRISE SOFTWARE

Intrinsyc Software International Inc announced it has signed a software licensing contract with SAP AG for Intrinsyc's enterprise bridging software solutions. Under the terms of the contract, SAP will be licensing Intrinsyc's Ja.NET enterprise application bridging software and integrating this with SAP NetWeaver, SAP's open and advanced technology platform for business applications today. Ja.NET will be distributed globally to SAP enterprise customers as part of SAP NetWeaver, enabling seamless interoperability between Microsoft and Java based systems.

The Gartner Group has predicted that through 2005, more than 90 percent of medium to large organizations that develop applications for their own projects most likely will use a mixture of both Microsoft and Java technologies. Ja.NET has become the premier Java to .NET bridging solution for enterprises, helping companies integrate Java and .NET based IT systems. Ja.NET provides a high performance, cost effective and fully interoperable way in which to integrate, or bridge, Microsoft .NET and J2EE. Ja.NET makes it possible to support both .NET and J2EE without the additional cost and complexities of custom coding. By incorporating the world's only pure Java implementation of Microsoft's .NET Remoting framework, Ja.NET provides powerful, bi-directional and seamless interoperability between tightly coupled complex enterprise applications.

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Intrinsyc's enterprise bridging solutions (J-Integra and Ja.NET) have been deployed by more than 1,000 enterprises worldwide. They have also been licensed and integrated by more than 100 Independent Software Vendors (ISVs), validating these solutions as the market leader in this industry. Ja.NET helps companies save money and protect IT infrastructure investments by enabling them to maintain their existing J2EE systems and seamlessly integrate new .NET services.

"Our enterprise bridging technology is a great fit with SAP NetWeaver," said Derek Spratt, president and chief executive officer of Intrinsyc Software. "By integrating Ja.NET into SAP NetWeaver, Intrinsyc helps support the SAP NetWeaver vision of ensuring openness and interoperability between Microsoft .NET and J2EE environments, enabling their customers to benefit from business solutions tailored to meet their requirements. By reducing the complexity of integration, Ja.NET helps customers lower the total cost of ownership across the entire IT landscape."