(San Jose, CA) -The industry's first independently developed application server to achieve Java2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) v. 1.3 compatibility is Pramati Technologies' Pramati Server 3.0. Achieving this industry first involved passing more than 15,000 tests in the Sun Microsystems J2EE Compatibility Test Suite. Pramati has also just released Pramati Studio 3.0, for developers who need an integrated development environment (IDE) for building applications to the new standard. Both products are expected to be generally available before the end of 2001.

Targeted at the mid-market where dozens of other companies have failed, Pramati believes that it will achieve success in the mid-market by delivering an industrial-strenth app server with a cost far below the $15K per CPU price tag of BEA and IBM. Pramati Server 3.0 accomplishes this, and sets the technological pace for J2EE development.

Commenting for Java Industry News, Uttam M. Narsu, a Research Director with the Giga Information Group, noted that the costs of competing in the J2EE space has put price pressure on smaller players. "Here, Pramati has one advantage," notes Narsu. "With its engineering effort located in India, each dollar goes much farther. Because Pramati is one of a handful of Indian product (as opposed to service) companies, it has been able to attract top Indian talent, and with the recent second-tier investment from Intel and k1 Ventures, its immediate future seems secure." Narsu continued, "Focusing on performance manageability (its 1.3 J2EE release will include a full Java Management Extensions management and monitoring console) and aggressively beating the market on features will get the company attention and customers… Assuming that the performance is competitive, that may be enough to establish a defensible niche in the brutal J2EE application server market."

Judith Lilienfeld, Senior Product Manager, J2EE Compatible Markets, Sun Microsystems, told JIN, "Java 2 Enterprise Edition technology is a complete end-to-end platform for developing and deploying distributed enterprise applications. Pramati's compatible implementation of the J2EE 1.3 specification for both their development tools and application server demonstrates their commitment to and leadership in the enterprise Java marketplace."

Pramati Server 3.0 carries a high-performance Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) 2.0 container with support for enterprise-level features such as load balancing, failover and hot deployment. Pramati Server 3.0 is designed from the ground up to support transparent clustering, providing performance, scalability, and reliability for enterprise-grade deployments. The JMX-based Web console of the server takes management and monitoring to new levels of power and reach.

"Two key focus areas for Pramati Server 3.0 have been manageability and productivity," said Vijay Pullur, cofounder and CTO, Pramati Technologies. "We believe EJB 2.0, connectors, and messaging integration in J2EE 1.3 are very powerful features for building enterprise applications, but a good implementation needs sophisticated development and management tools. Pramati is proud to be the first in bringing out the complete platform that is J2EE 1.3 compatible."

"Java technology is transforming the enterprise by simplifying integration and by bringing choice to the middle tier," said Tracey Stout, vice president, Marketing Java and XML Software, Sun Microsystems, Inc. "Pramati's rapid delivery of a J2EE 1.3 compatible application server, development tools, and management tools gives the industry new choices that can lower total cost of ownership."

Pramati has also just released Pramati Studio 3.0, for developers who need an integrated development environment (IDE) for building applications to the new standard. Pramati Studio 3.0 equips large, distributed, diverse development teams with intuitive and intelligent tools that reduce the time and cost of developing standard enterprise components. Pramati Studio is app server agnostic and supports direct deployment to several J2EE-compliant app servers. With its in-built J2EE server, Web server and debugger, the Studio forms a complete development and test environment. Both Server 3.0 and Studio 3.0 are expected to be generally available before the end of 2001.

To find out more about Pramati, visit www.pramati.com.

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