Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

RESTON, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 22, 2003

Enhanced Functions Deliver Increased Flexibility

for Existing IT Infrastructure and Solutions

Software AG, Inc., a pioneer in XML solutions, today announced Tamino XML Server 4.1, the newest version of its award-winning, high-performance data management platform. Tamino is designed for managing XML documents in their native format and is a strategic building block for enterprise information management solutions.

Along with a breadth of other new features and enhancements, version 4.1 adds support for the newest XML standards so it works well with a wide variety of IT infrastructures.

Tamino 4.1 offers companies better performance, significantly shorter implementation times and investment security for their system landscapes. In addition, version 4.1 gives developers a number of new interfaces and upgraded tools to help them quickly build new solutions and applications.

Tamino is an important component for reliable enterprise content management, data exchange, digital libraries, Web services and mobile computing.

"Software AG is committed to helping companies maximize their existing IT investments and future-proof their systems," said Gary Voight, president and CEO of Software AG, Inc. "We enhanced Tamino XML Server to meet the extensive market requirements of the increasing number of companies that are deploying XML-based solutions."

Tamino 4.1 offers new enhancements and functionality based on XML standards such as XML Schema, XML namespaces, XML Signatures and XQuery. In addition to the extended support for these open standards, Tamino 4.1 also provides:

-- High availability and reliability. With hardware-based backup/restore capabilities, new replication services and clustering support, version 4.1 offers excellent availability and reliability.

-- Transaction accuracy and integrity. New Tamino 4.1 offers support for the two-phase commit (2PC) protocol to maintain data integrity and accuracy within the distributed databases through synchronized locking of all pieces of a transaction.

-- Enhanced security. Version 4.1 offers enhanced security services with internal authentication features, expanded authorization functionality.

-- Ease of use and system flexibility.