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November 16, 2005 04:00 AM US Pacific Timezone

Tarari Announces RAX-XSLT: World's First Silicon-or-Software XSLT Engine; Two New XSLT Engines -- One Silicon-Based and One ``Pure Software'' -- Extend Tarari's Leadership in XML Content Processors for Networking, Appliance, and Server OEMs

XML 2005

ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 16, 2005--Tarari, Inc., the award-winning acceleration company, today announced an Early Adopter Program and general availability of its XSLT processing engines, named RAX-XSLT, that are designed and highly optimized for Web Services and transactional XML processing. RAX-XSLT is a new addition to Tarari's Random Access XML (RAX) family of XML Content Processors. Tarari's Content Processors are components that are designed to greatly accelerate and harden the processing of XML on network devices, switches, appliances, blades, and servers.

RAX-XSLT is now available as both a silicon-based component and a "pure-software" library:

-- Silicon-accelerated RAX-XSLT extends Tarari's XML Content Processor PCI-X Boards with XSLT processing accelerated by Tarari's specialized RAX silicon cores.

-- Pure-software RAX-XSLT is an optimized, software-only XSLT offering that runs on general-purpose CPUs (such as Intel and AMD) and embedded processors (such as MIPS and PowerPC).

The dual offering of XSLT as a pure-software library as well as a specialized silicon component is unprecedented in the industry. With a common API for both, there is true scalability in how OEMs can embed XSLT in their systems.

XSLT is a popular XML programming method. Originally designed for formatting XML into HTML for display in a browser, it has proven very attractive to programmers across the industry as a language for many forms of message and protocol transformation and inter-application XML data exchange. XSLT usage has been hampered, however, by its well-known performance problems. Tarari has addressed this with its RAX-XSLT offerings. This is important because, according to Gartner, an IT industry research firm, XML processing, which lies at the heart of new applications based on Service-oriented Architecture (SOA), will provide the basis for 80 percent of new software development projects by 2008.

Tarari's RAX-XSLT is highly optimized for XSLT programming in Web Services, transactional XML processing, and inter-application data exchange. A new Tarari XSLT Script Analysis Profiler, also included with RAX-XSLT, helps developers further optimize performance by eliminating script "hotspots" that dramatically reduce processing speeds. With performance at five times and better the speed of conventional software XSLT solutions, RAX-XSLT allows XSLT to now be used in the most demanding network, appliance, and server-based systems.

"We have achieved an `industry first' by developing and releasing a high-performance XSLT engine that can be installed as either a pure-software component or on our specialized XML Content Processor silicon," said Randy Smerik, founder and president/CEO of Tarari Inc. "With our RAX family of XML Content Processors, Tarari has secured a leadership position in high-speed XML processing for our OEM customers. XSLT is a key element of XML systems, and this new RAX-XSLT release further strengthens our leadership role."

RAX-XSLT: The Newest Member of the Tarari XML RAX Family

RAX-XSLT joins the Tarari family of XML RAX silicon-accelerated processing components for OEM systems. Tarari invented RAX, Random Access XML, to address the most daunting performance challenges in XML processing.

RAX-XSLT automatically detects Tarari's XML RAX Content Processor, available on a PCI/PCI-X board that plugs into an available server or network appliance slot. The RAX Content Processor provides instant and transparent hardware (silicon) acceleration for processor-exhausting XML processing tasks such as document parsing, XPath processing, schema validation, XML security, XML content-based routing, and XSLT. If the XML RAX Content Processor board is not present in the system, then Tarari's optimized software stack natively provides the needed processing. The key is that RAX-XSLT is capable of sensing when acceleration silicon is available, and transparently switches over to hardware-accelerated operation at that time.

RAX-XSLT is fully compliant with the industry standards: W3C XSLT 1.1, JAXP, and eXSLT.

Availability and Pricing

Developers who sign up for Tarari's RAX-XSLT Early Adopter Program by the end of December can purchase the pure-software version of the RAX-XSLT Development Kit for $895. For the duration of the Early Adopter Program, the Tarari XML RAX Content Processor Development Kit will include the RAX-XSLT technology with the hardware-based XML RAX Content Processor on a PCI/PCI-X card at no extra cost at the current price of $4,995. Volume pricing for the RAX-XSLT software and silicon components are available upon request.

For more information contact info@tarari.com . To order a development kit, visit www.tarari.com/order . For additional technical information, visit www.tarari.com/xslt

About Tarari, Inc.

Tarari, Inc., the award-winning acceleration company headquartered in San Diego, designs and produces Tarari Content Processors that accelerate and offload compute-intensive, complex algorithms used in XML/Web Services, Network Security, and Digital Media environments. Tarari's product line includes boards, ASICs, and software acceleration components designed for network equipment, appliance, and server vendors as well as independent software vendors and enterprises. Tarari is a privately held company with venture backing from Crosspoint Venture Partners, Intel Capital, Miramar Venture Partners, Morgan Stanley Venture Partners, and XMLFund. For more information, visit: www.tarari.com, e-mail: info@tarari.com, or call 858-385-5131.