FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
March 15, 2002

Media contact:
Iqbal M. Khan 

Director Sales and Marketing

AlachiSoft
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iqbal@alachisoft.com

TierDeveloper 1.0 .NET Professional Edition Announced

.NET Professional Edition announced for SQL Server developers

Newark, California - March 15^th, 2001 - AlachiSoft is pleased to announce the immediate availability of the TierDeveloper™ 1.0 .NET Professional Edition. TierDeveloper is an object-to-relational mapping and code generation tool that helps people cut down their middle-tier development time and cost.

"TierDeveloper is geared toward Enterprise Web Application developers in both Java/J2EE and Microsoft technologies. By adding .NET Professional Edition to our offering, we are able to address the needs of those customers who are committed to Microsoft SQL Server and .NET and need code that is optimized for Microsoft SQL Server." said Iqbal Khan, Sales & Marketing Manager at AlachiSoft.

TierDeveloper .NET Professional Edition support .NET development in C# or VB.NET and with Microsoft SQL Server only. Additionally, other editions of TierDeveloper support the following platforms:

• Microsoft .NET for C# and VB.NET

• Oracle 9iAS

• BEA WebLogic 5.6? and 6.1

• IBM WebSphere 4.0

• iPlanet 6.0

• JBoss 3.0

• Microsoft Windows DNA with C++ and Visual Basic

Additionally, TierDeveloper supports the following leading database servers:

• Oracle

• DB2

• Microsoft SQL Server

TierDeveloper allows customers to lower their development cost in a number of ways. First, customers can finish their projects in less time and without requiring more resources. This is really important in these difficult economic times when everybody is cutting back their budgets and are being forced to postpone and/or cancel important projects. Now, customers can develop their business-critical projects without having to increase their budgets.

TierDeveloper also helps customers improve the quality of their applications. This is because all the code that TierDeveloper generates is based on pre-tested code-templates. These code-templates have been tested for both functionality and performance. The end result of all this is a much higher quality application for our customers.

Pricing and Availability

TierDeveloper has a 30-day evaluation version available on AlachiSoft website. Pricing information is also available there. NO RUNTIME FEES, NO SERVER-CPU FEES, and NO DEPLOYMENT FEES charged by TierDeveloper. Customers only pay for developer licenses.

About AlachiSoft

AlachiSoft, a California based company, is in the business of providing Software Development Productivity Tools. And, the first tool in this line is TierDeveloper which helps developers of Enterprise Applications cut down their development time through object-to-relational mapping and code generating capabilities of TierDeveloper. TierDeveloper has been designed to become a Rapid Application Development (RAD) environment for customers who want to design and develop Enterprise systems in Java, J2EE, or Microsoft Technologies. Visit our website at http://www.alachisoft.com or send us an email at sales@alachisoft.com.

TierDeveloper is trademarks of AlachiSoft. All rights reserved. Java and Java-based marks are trademarks of Sun Microsystems in the US and other countries. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.