2006-07-04

Birdstep Technology Releases RDM Mobile 5.0 Embeddable Database

New Version Offers SQL, Named Hierarchies, Network Data Model, Multi-User Enhancements and new data types.

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 5.0 encapsulates eleven years of database development for mobile and embedded devices delivering innovation and efficiency in one small package.

Birdstep RDM Mobile 5.0 represents the latest in embedded and mobile database technology, providing complex data management in a wide range of low cost mobile and embedded devices. Our new RDM Mobile 5.0 functionality increases application performance, lowers cost of production, and enhances quality by providing more flexibility in data modeling and multi-user support improving your application capabilities.

This version contains major feature additions including SQL, named hierarchies, support for the network data model, and enhanced multi-user support. These features require less power consumption while enriching application performance. By supporting the relational, the network, the object oriented, and the hierarchical data model in the same package, the application developer now has full freedom in how data is structured.

“RDM Mobile 5.0 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 SQL, Named Hierarchies, and the Network Data Model, RDM Mobile 5.0 strengthens our ability to provide a compelling database product in the growing embedded and mobile database market.”

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.

Contact Information:
Steinar Sande
Birdstep Technology
steinar.sande@birdstep.com
(206) 748-5353