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Toronto - May 16, 2005 - Hummingbird Ltd. (NASDAQ: HUMC, TSX: HUM), a leading global provider of enterprise software solutions, today announced that Hummingbird Connectivity™ 2006 will be supporting Microsoft® Windows® XP Professional x64 Edition and Microsoft® Windows Server™ 2003 x64 Edition through its entire product family. To be released this summer, Hummingbird Connectivity 2006 will offer new enhancements and increased functionality, common with the Company's tradition of continued growth and advancement.
“With the convergence of x64 hardware and software, the industry is primed for 64-bit computing,” said Brian Marr, senior product manager at Microsoft Corp. “We're pleased Hummingbird Connectivity 2006 will support Windows XP Professional x64 Edition as the pervasive shift to the x64 architecture is beginning to accelerate.”
Backed with the richest feature set in the industry, Hummingbird Connectivity provides a single consolidated solution that allows organizations to securely integrate heterogeneous legacy infrastructures, such as UNIX® or Mainframe, with Windows-based desktops. With support for x64, Hummingbird Connectivity 2006 customers will experience faster, more efficient delivery of business critical applications, reducing costs, increasing productivity and improving the effectiveness of their overall business operations.
Hummingbird is the only vendor in this market segment to offer x64 support for its entire suite of connectivity software comprised of PC X Server, Terminal Emulation and PC-based Network File System (NFS) software.
“Hummingbird Connectivity is constantly evolving, not only from research and development, but also from valuable customer feedback, keeping us at the forefront of the IT industry,” said Barry Litwin, president and CEO, Hummingbird Ltd. “The combination of Hummingbird Connectivity 2006 and x64 capabilities will provide an unmatched performance-enhanced architecture that will simplify system administration, optimize users' personal computing environments, and deliver ease-of-use.”
x64 Benefits
The x64 architecture is based on 64-bit extensions to the industry-standard x86 instruction set. This architecture allows today's 32-bit applications to run natively on x64 enabling organizations to preserve their existing IT investment. Native 64-bit applications such as Hummingbird Exceed® 2006 will unleash the full power of the 64-bit architecture, which processes more data per clock cycle, allows greater access to memory, and speeds up numeric calculations.
Windows XP Professional x64 Edition and Windows Server 2003 x64 Edition are designed specifically to work with PCs equipped with CPUs such as AMD Opteron™ and AMD Athlon™ 64, as well as Intel® Xeon™ with Intel® Extended Memory 64 Technology (EM64T) and Pentium® 4 with Intel® EM64T.
Key applications that benefit from the power and flexibility of x64 include:
- Financial and scientific modeling applications that work with large sets of data in memory;
- Large scale database and data warehouses that are used in areas such as CRM (customer relationship management), SCM (supply chain management), ERP (enterprise resource planning) and DRM (digital rights management);
- Mathematical performance and precision applications, including financial analysis, statistics, simulation, modeling, finite elements calculation, physics, compression;
- Digital content creation applications, such as, computer-aided design, manufacturing and engineering (CAD, CAM and CAE).
Availability: Hummingbird Connectivity 2006 will be available this summer.
About Hummingbird Connectivity™
Hummingbird Connectivity is a comprehensive set of core network technologies that enables the enterprise to connect to any type of legacy system. Hummingbird Connectivity seamlessly delivers enterprise mission critical data to the user desktop. Based on robust and recognized standards, every Hummingbird Connectivity product is designed to bridge the gap between legacy systems and enterprise users by delivering the quickest, easiest, and most secure single point of access to UNIX systems, Mainframes and AS/400s.
About Hummingbird
Hummingbird Ltd. (NASDAQ: HUMC, TSX: HUM) is a leading global provider of enterprise software solutions. Hummingbird's enterprise content management (ECM) solutions enable organizations to manage the lifecycle of enterprise content from creation to disposition. Hummingbird Enterprise solutions enable organizations to address critical business needs, such as information management, business continuity, compliance and risk mitigation.
Founded in 1984, Hummingbird employs over 1400 people and serves more than 33,000 customers, including 90% of Fortune 100. Hummingbird solutions are sold directly from 40 offices worldwide and through our Alliance Network of partners and resellers. For more information, visit
http://www.hummingbird.com
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