[Announcement] Gigaspaces Announces Launch Of Free Community Edition

Gigaspaces Announces Launch Of Free Community Edition

http://www.gigaspaces.com/news2005_04.htm

JavaSpaces and Enterprise Application Grid Pioneer to Support Free
Distributed-Computing Development

NEW YORK, NY - March 30th, 2005 - In an effort to contribute to the
establishment of open standards for enterprise-class distributed computing,
GigaSpaces Technologies Inc., a fast-growing provider of innovative
grid-based solutions for transaction intensive, business-critical
applications, today announced that it has launched a free Community Edition
(CE) of its product.

The Community Edition allows developers to build professional
JavaSpaces-based applications and deploy them in a production environment
with no associated licensing fees.

This edition includes many innovative features such as a full, mature and
proven JavaSpaces/Jini implementation, a Java Messaging Server (JMS)
implementation and a JDBC interface to query data managed by a space.
Advanced features found in the Enterprise Edition such as clustering and
High-Availability options, Fast Persistence, C++ API, .Net API and J2EE
integration are not included.

JavaSpaces is gaining momentum as the de-facto middleware standard for
building efficient and simple Grid and Services Oriented Architecture (SOA)
applications in Java. The Community Edition will allow architects and
developers to employ a "production-grade", mature implementation of the
technology from prototyping to production environments without any
commercial commitment. In addition, the technology is available to
Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) to embed into their product free of
charge. If and when advanced features are needed, a straightforward upgrade
to the full-featured Enterprise Edition is available.

"This release of the Community Edition of our JavaSpaces implementation
finally offers developers a "commercial quality" product for developing and
deploying distributed applications based on JavaSpaces technology," said
Nati Shalom, CTO at GigaSpaces. "We are excited about this release and
believe that it is a major step in establishing JavaSpaces as a de-facto
standard for Grid-based transactional applications, and a key component in
Java development strategies in the age of distributed computing."

About GigaSpaces Enterprise Application Grid
GigaSpaces Enterprise Application (EAG) Grid's distributed messaging and
data management creates a platform that provides a rich set of
tightly-integrated application services (such as JMS, Clustering, Caching,
JDBC, etc.) - on top of a federated shared memory platform. This allows
developers to rapidly build and deploy high-performance and highly-reliable
business-critical applications that run on a distributed set of IT
resources. GigaSpaces EAG also provides powerful monitoring and provisioning
features that make its maintenance simple and effective. It enables an
organization to dynamically distribute data across low-cost servers such as
Linux Blades and achieve in-memory levels of performance with significantly
less administration and costs than dedicated hardware solutions.

About GigaSpaces
GigaSpaces is a fast-growing provider of innovative grid-based solutions
that solve the performance, reliability & scalability problems of
transaction-intensive, business critical applications. The company's
customers include AIG, Nortel Networks and Hutchison 3G, among other major
organizations in the financial, telecom and manufacturing industries.
GigaSpaces was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in New York, with an R&D
center in Israel. It is part of the Formula Group (NASDAQ: FORTY), Israel's
largest publicly held IT company. For more information, please visit
http://www.gigaspaces.com







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