Birdstep Technology Announced the Addition of the TACT Group to its Family of Distributors

As part of Birdstep Technologies expansion in the worldwide embedded database market Birdstep has entered into an agreement with the TACT Group to be the Israeli distributor of Birdstep's Raima Database Manager Product Family.

Seattle, WA (PRWEB) November 7, 2008

Birdstep Technology (OSE: BIRD) today announced they have completed an agreement with the TACT Group to be the Raima Database Manager (RDM) distributor in Israel.

"We are excited to have such a well respected company like the TACT Group representing our products", said Paul Johnson, Marketing Manager Birdstep Technology.

With this partnership Birdstep Technology will expand its presence in Israel within some key markets such as aerospace & military and telecom equipment where the company has previously established customers. TACT and Birdstep will work closely to bring Birdstep's unique product offering to solve the increasing embedded database requests of new development projects in Israel.

"TACT group is proud to expand its solution suite and supply the Israeli market with a powerful embedded database from a well known company such as Birdstep. We are confident that this cooperation will be beneficial and fruitful to our customers", said Shaul Efraim, CEO Tact Software Solutions

About The TACT Group
TACT Group originated from TACT Computer Systems Ltd. The group includes several companies and activity centers specializing in the Hi tech, IT, software and related fields. TACT was established by a group of Israeli Intelligence and Air Force reserve officers with knowledge and experience in the field of real-time systems and general software development processes. TACT Group currently employs about 500 engineers, software experts, technicians, and leading experts in a variety of expertise including: Analysis, design and development of software for computer embedded systems and IT systems, software and systems testing including all QA activities, ISO-9000 consulting, development of diagnostic systems. Tact has developed software system for affiliates network, and now owns and leads the major Israeli affiliates network via the internet site "WeSell".

About The Raima Database Manager Family
Raima released the first version of the Raima embedded database in 1984. Since then the family has grown into three successful embedded database products. RDM Embedded pioneered the embedded market space under the name dbVista. Through great success Raima released the product in a client/server configuration under the name Velocis, now called RDM Server. Augmenting the two is RDM Mobile ideally suited for consumer electronics and low cost mobile devices such as set-top boxes, mp3 players etc.

About Birdstep
Birdstep Technology, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Birdstep Technology ASA, is a leading provider of high-performance, real-time, always on, embedded databases for both in-memory database usage and persistent storage devices. Raima Database Managers are found in everything from low cost real-time applications to high performance, high-availability application. With over 20 000 developers enjoying the flexibility of these COTS databases, the products are currently successfully deployed in over 25 million systems.

For further press information please contact Paul Johnson at Birdstep Technology:
Tel: (206) 748-5300
Email: paul.johnson@birdstep.com
Website: http://www.raima.com

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