Pramati Technologies and CARNOT Inc. form Technology Partnership

Mesa, Arizona. -- April 3, 2002 -- Pramati Technologies and CARNOT Inc. today announced a technology partnership to provide system integrators and ISVs with a more complete offering of J2EE /XML application development tools.

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April 3, 2002

Pramati Technologies and CARNOT Inc. form Technology Partnership

Mesa, Arizona. -- April 3, 2002 -- Pramati Technologies and CARNOT Inc. today announced a technology partnership to provide system integrators and ISVs with a more complete offering of J2EE /XML application development tools.

The partnership centers around Pramati Server and CARNOTs Global eProcess Management Solutions (GeMS), the respective core J2EE products of Pramati and CARNOT Inc. As part of the partnership, CARNOTs GeMS has been ported to run on Pramatis application server, and joint marketing activities will be developed and executed.

"Carnot's process management product is a natural extention of Pramatis application server and we are happy to bring Carnot's GeMS product to our customers, who will benefit from a more comprehensive offering," says Mr. Jay Raghavendra Pullur, president and CEO of Pramati Technologies.

The partnership brings together two powerful, compact, and compatible J2EE technologies for customers looking for enterprise application development tools that are tightly integrated in the J2EE framework and allow for rapid deployment," says Mark Crauwels, President of CARNOT Inc.

Pramati provides core technologies to build, run and maintain component applications based on enterprise Java technologies, including Pramati Server, a powerful Java-based application server and Pramati Studio, a server-side IDE for building J2EE applications.

CARNOT is the leading embeddable Global eProcess Management Solution that is entirely based on J2EE/XML technology and open standards. CARNOTs GeMS includes an eProcess engine, Process Definition Desktop (Modeler), Process Execution Desktop and an Administration Desktop.

About CARNOT
CARNOT is an innovative eProcess software company headquartered in Frankfurt, Germany, and with North American sales and support offices in Mesa, Arizona. CARNOT focuses on the emerging market of J2EE-based enterprise eProcess solutions and their integration with legacy IT infrastructures. Our J2EE-based, XML-driven tools reduce development costs and accelerate time-to-market by reducing the need for coding, simplifying integration, and enabling systems to be more easily adapted to the changing business environment.

About Pramati Technologies
Pramati Technologies, based in Hyderabad, India but with significant operations in the U.S. and abroad, is a global provider of Java software development technology for small-to-medium sized businesses. Pramati Server and Studio together are a complete platform developers use to create and deploy applications based on Sun Microsystems' Java 2 Enterprise Edition platform but at a fraction of the cost typically required. Pramati's U.S. offices are in Silicon Valley and New York, and the company can be found on the Web at www.pramati.com.

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