Sankhya announces Varadhi - The Digital Bridge

Sankhya announced the availability of SANKHYA Varadhi an object middleware solution for distributed systems developers. Varadhi enables software on mobile devices, embedded systems and conventional desktops and servers to communicate with each other.

Sankhya Technologies today announced the commercial availability of its
flagship Object Middleware Product -- SANKHYA Varadhi.

SANKHYA Varadhi 1.1 is an Object Request Broker, that conforms to Object
Management Group's CORBA 2.2 (Minimum CORBA) Specification.

SANKHYA Varadhi 1.1 XE (Embedded / Cross Platform Edition) provides embedded
system developers a standards-based framework for building and deploying
distributed systems. SANKHYA Varadhi XE is optimized for use in embedded
environments.

SANKHYA Varadhi 1.1 SE (Standard Edition) on Solaris, Linux and
Windows-2000 hosts can be used for Minimum CORBA based distributed
systems development.

Highlights of SANKHYA Varadhi 1.1 include:

   * CORBA 2.2 Conformance (Minimum CORBA)
   * IIOP as Native Protocol
   * Pluggable Transport Layer
   * Portable Object Adapter
   * High performance CORBA ORB
   * Small Foot Print

   * ns - Varadhi Naming Service
   * vconf - Interactive Configuration Utility
   * idlc IDL Compiler for C++
   * nsman and dumpior utilities

   * Documentation and Samples

SANKHYA Varadhi 1.1 SE provides host tools and platform support for
Solaris 2.7, Windows 2000, Red Hat Linux 6.x. SANKHYA Varadhi 1.1 XE
supports Target Platform support for OSE on PowerPC platform and
Windows-CE for x86 (Handheld PC).

Introductory pricing for SANKHYA Varadhi 1.1 SE developer licenses
starts at USD 495. SANKHYA Varadhi 1.1 SE Deployment Licenses are priced
starting at USD 999 for each Server Application and target platform.

SANKHYA Development also provides a complete range of professional
services -- including Training, Support and customized CORBA based Application
Development. "SANKHYA Development services complement our object middleware
products and together these offer comprehensive middleware solutions to
distributed and embedded systems developers", said Gopi Kumar Bulusu,
chief executive officer and vice president of engineering for
Sankhya Technologies Private Limited.

Sankhya Technologies Private Limited is one of India's leading System Software
Development Companies. Sankhya offers System Software Development services,
Contract Research and Development and Platform products for Embedded Systems
Development. The technologies and tools developed by Sankhya are used by
developers worldwide in the development of a wide range of mission critical
Embedded systems including Telecommunications, Networking and Industrial
Automation. Sankhya is a platform member of the Object Management Group,
an OSE Systems Partner and a member of the Software Technology
Parks of India.

SANKHYA, SANKHYA Development, Varadhi, The Digital Bridge and
SANKHYA TECHNOLOGIES are Trademarks or Service Marks of Sankhya
Technologies Private Limited. OMG marks and logos are trademarks or
registered trademarks, service marks and/or certification marks of
Object Management Group, Inc., registered in the United States. All
other brands or names are property of their respective owners.

This document may contain forward looking statements that are subject to
change without notice.

For more information contact a Sankhya Technologies Marketing Representative:

    Telephone : +91 44 822 7358
    Fax     : +91 44 822 7357
    E-mail    : pr@sankhya.com
    WWW     : http://www.sankhya.com/info/varadhi.html