ST. LOUIS, April 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Appistry has been included in the list of "Cool Vendors" in the "Cool Vendors in Application Platforms and Service Oriented Architecture, 2005" report by Gartner, Inc. The report will be available for download on http://www.appistry.com/ .

According to the report, the vendors highlighted as a "cool vendor" offer fresh, radical and powerful technologies aimed at meeting the needs of highly demanding business problems.

"Appistry EAF enables applications to transcend the infrastructure, freeing developers and administrators from the rigid, complex hardware-centric architectures that have dominated the industry for so long," says Kevin Haar, CEO of Appistry. "The application fabric creates a dynamic, adaptable computing environment that's remarkably dependable. Companies adopting SOA or grid-like architectures should look to application fabrics as way to dramatically reduce the costs and complexities associated with these emerging technologies."

Appistry's flagship product, Appistry Enterprise Application Fabric (Appistry(TM) EAF), creates a software-based environment for hosting service- oriented and transactional applications in a flexible, dependable and scalable manner. The software enables application-level fault tolerance, ensuring the robustness of applications running within the fabric in spite of changes or failures in the underlying infrastructure. In this way, the fabric-based application transcends the infrastructure on which it runs. Appistry is now shipping version 2.3 of Appistry EAF, announced separately today.

With Appistry EAF, application developers are freed to focus on the features that create value for the business; administrators are freed from complex configuration, monitoring and troubleshooting routines; and management is freed from the constant resource drain of expensive servers and complex architectures. These benefits -- combined with the fact that application fabrics can be built using standard, commodity-grade servers -- allow for a redistribution of computing wealth from hardware acquisition and operations to application development. Rather than spending time and money on complex infrastructures, these resources can be applied to applications that provide value and give companies a true competitive advantage.

Case studies prepared in conjunction with Appistry customers indicate capital expenditure reductions of 50 to 90 percent and operational reductions of more than 50 percent. In addition, the simplicity of the Appistry EAF development model allows organizations to significantly reduce the development costs of new applications with very little additional training. The savings described above are all achieved while simultaneously increasing application dependability.

About Gartner's Cool Vendors Selection Process

Gartner's listing does not constitute an exhaustive list of vendors in any given technology area, but rather is designed to highlight interesting, new and innovative vendors, products and services. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness of a particular purpose.

Gartner defines a cool vendor as a company that offers technologies or solutions that are: Innovative, enable users to do things they couldn't do before; Impactful, have, or will have, business impact (not just technology for the sake of technology); Intriguing, have caught Gartner's interest or curiosity in approximately the past six months.

About Appistry

Appistry, formerly Tsunami Research, is the pioneer and leading provider of application fabric software, which allows customers and partners to develop, deploy, and manage service-oriented and transactional applications that are simultaneously dependable, scalable, agile and inexpensive. Appistry Enterprise Application Fabric (Appistry(TM) EAF) is Appistry's flagship product. Offering benefits often associated with disparate technologies such as grid computing, application servers and virtualization in one complete solution, Appistry EAF enables customers to achieve dramatic reductions in the cost, time-to-market, and complexity associated with their service-oriented and transactional applications. Appistry EAF is based Appistry's patent- pending Hive technology.

For more information, visit Appistry online at http://www.appistry.com/ , or call (314) 336-5080.

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