Birdstep Technology Releases RDM Embedded 7.2 Database

New Version Offers Data Replication enhancing our high availability and fault tolerant capabilities.

Seattle/Oslo (PRWEB) June 30, 2007 -- Birdstep Technology (OSE: BIRD) today announced the latest version of its RDM Embedded database management system. This new version includes data replication designed to meet market demand for applications requiring a 99.999% uptime guarantee and 24/7 data availability.

RDM Embedded has, over time, found itself embedded in over 20 million applications and appliances in all major markets serving high performance and critical needs. Over the past 20 years RDM Embedded has been used by over 20,000 developers in business critical applications spanning all major verticals.

"Customers can count on Birdstep's embeddable databases to meet their database needs for complex and performance critical applications," said Duncan Bates, VP of Product Management. "We have extended our unique embedded database technology with a data replication engine targeting fault tolerance applications needing a 99.999% uptime guarantee. This meets and exceeds customer demands for highly available embedded database solutions".

About Birdstep Technology

Birdstep Technology is traded on the Oslo Stock Exchange (OSE) under ticker 'BIRD'. The company has headquarters in Oslo and Seattle in addition to offices in Shanghai, London, Boston and San Francisco. Birdstep's small footprint, high performance database technologies combined with its wireless roaming and access software enables companies to build innovative solutions for embedded systems and the Mobile Internet. Birdstep makes your information accessible anytime, anywhere, on any device and on any infrastructure. Birdstep's global customers include 3Com (COMS), VERITAS (VRTS), Boeing (BA), HP (HPQ), Xerox Corporation (XRX), Cognos (COGN), ABN-AMRO (ABN), Lucent Technologies (LU) and the National Stock Exchange of India. For more information, visit http://www.birdstep.com/

Birdstep Technology free SDKs

Birdstep Technology now offers free Software Development Kits (SDKs) available for download by visiting http://www.birdstep.com/database/download.php3. Downloading free SDKs allows interested parties to immediately begin working with Birdstep's RDM databases.

Birdstep Safe Harbor

This news release contains forward-looking statements, including statements that are subject to certain risks and uncertainties, including, but not limited to, those associated with unpredictability and volatility of the price of Birdstep Technology's Common Stock, the performance of and conditions in the Norwegian and world financial markets, the policies and actions of the Norwegian and other governments, and the general political, economic and business conditions in Norway and elsewhere. Actual results could differ materially, as a result of such factors, from those set forth in forward-looking statements.

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