Birdstep Technology Releases RDM Mobile 5.1 Embeddable Database

SEATTLE/OSLO – April xx, 2007 – Birdstep Technology (OSE: BIRD), world-leading developer of mobile, embedded and server based database technologies, today released an updated version of their RDM Mobile database system. RDM Mobile 5.1 encapsulates eleven years of database development for mobile and embedded devices delivering innovation and efficiency in one small package.

The unique architecture and functionality of Birdstep RDM Mobile 5.1 is a perfect match for real-time embedded applications with complex data management needs. With its support of 4 different database models, a highly configurable transactional engine, and querying features, the database engine is a natural choice for many embedded applications.

This version contains major feature additions including data replication enabling high availability device manufactures to guarantee 99.999% uptime, hot online backup solving 24×7 data access, and multi-user in-memory database support. This complements the already sophisticated database engine targeted at solving real-time complex embedded applications where power consumption, flash disk wear, and performance are key requirements.

“RDM Mobile 5.1 is a very portable and low-cost mobile and embedded database developed with the goal of providing our customers the best tools, functionality, and productivity in an embeddable database product,” says Duncan Bates, Product Manager. “With the addition of data replication, hot backup functionality and multi-user in-memory support, RDM Mobile 5.1 strengthens our ability to solve the most complex applications in the real-time embedded application space.”

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 www.birdstep.com/

Birdstep Technology FREE SDKs

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

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