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PETALUMA, Calif., Oct. 31 /PRNewswire-AsiaNet/ –

Aims to Bring Telco Capability to Popular Enterprise Applications, and
Interoperability to Telecom ISV Solutions

OpenClovis, Inc. today announced it will launch several new open source
projects that aim to provide high availability and carrier grade capabilities,
which are required by the telecommunications industry, to popular open source
telephony and enterprise applications. At the same time, the company will also
promote additional open source projects to accelerate the pre-integration of
open source telecom Independent Software Vendor (ISV) solutions with its own
commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS), open source, high availability service
application platform.

"With the convergence of IT and telecommunications infrastructures, it
will be beneficial for open source telephony and enterprise applications to
achieve the ’six nines’ reliability that is essential for the
telecommunications market, by integrating with OpenClovis," said V.K.
Budhraja, CEO of OpenClovis. "On the other hand, the convergence of IP and
voice networks is driving the need for a standards-based, open architecture
platform on which to develop next generation telecommunications products.
Integrated telecom software solutions, such as those we are also proposing
with these projects, can cut time-to-market and total cost-of-ownership, and
reduce the complexity of development for equipment providers."

The enterprise projects would develop integrations and provide linkages to
incorporate open source enterprise applications with the OpenClovis
Application Service Platform (ASP), an open source, carrier grade, high
availability management software platform. Applications could include solidDB
for MySQL, which combines the strength of the MySQL Server and solidDB into a
robust online transaction processing (OLTP) database that allows businesses to
use an open source relational database for mission-critical applications.
Other applications might include Web servers such as Apache, telephony and
VoIP applications such as Asterisk and Yate, network management applications
such as OpenNMS, and various Java and Linux-based application-ready execution
environments.

"Today’s communications organizations are being forced to rapidly deliver
new value-added content and services, operate more efficiently, and increase
customer satisfaction," said Kaj Arno, vice president of open source community
relations for MySQL AB. "Open source has become a proven method for meeting
these challenges, and we applaud OpenClovis’ outreach to the open source
telecom world."

"Our own survey of IT professionals earlier this year demonstrated
enterprise demand for open source solutions that ensure mission critical
applications have uninterrupted, real-time access to information," said Paola
Lubet, vice president of marketing and business development, Solid Information
Technology. "Solid partnered with MySQL to bring our proven, robust OLTP
database technology to open source. We welcome this initiative by OpenClovis
and we share with them the commitment to drive the "six nines" availability to
both the communications industry and the broader enterprise application
market."

Additional open source projects would provide pre-integration of the
OpenClovis COTS open source ASP with open source telecom applications, such as
Vovida VoIP, Vyatta OFR and XORP routing stacks, to provide plug-and-play,
interoperable, high availability solutions that would help speed next
generation equipment to market, and at lower cost.

These new projects, collectively called ClovisForge, are associated with
the existing OpenClovis Software Project, which aims to provide the
telecommunications industry with an extensive set of high-quality, modular and
reusable software components and tools that are standards-based and designed
to be hardware- and operating system (OS)- agnostic.

The OpenClovis ASP is suitable for a wide range of carrier grade network
elements, and its usage ranges from broadband access devices for technologies
such as DSL, PON, 3G/WiMAX, to metro Ethernet and edge switches/routers, IPTV
application servers and IP multimedia subsystem (IMS) core elements.

OpenClovis products are offered and supported under the dual GNU Public
License (GPL) open source and commercial license model that has already proved
successful for other open source software companies. Major corporations such
as AT&T, HP, IBM, Intel and Wind River have already pledged support for the
OpenClovis open source approach.

The OpenClovis application project will begin accepting submissions for
priority project ideas immediately. Project selection will begin January 2007
with the first project Web launch to be scheduled shortly thereafter. For more
information, please visit www.openclovis.org .

About OpenClovis
OpenClovis ( www.openclovis.com ) provides a premier open source,
commercial off-the-shelf application service platform for the
telecommunications industry. The OpenClovis platform is designed to reduce the
cost of developing telecommunications equipment and accelerate time to market
by providing developers with a flexible, standards-based software platform
available under both open source and commercial licenses. With OpenClovis,
telecommunication and network equipment manufacturers have the tools to
quickly and easily add a management and high availability platform on which to
build their differentiated applications. OpenClovis has received investment
backing from American River Ventures, AT&T, Intel Capital, Sevin Rosen Funds
and Walden International. The company has partnerships with industry leaders
such as HP and IBM.

SOURCE OpenClovis, Inc.

CONTACT: Patricia Colby of Page One PR,
+1-650-543-4703, or
patricia@pageonepr.com, for OpenClovis

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