Catalytic Signs Partner Agreement with Airframe Business Software

Kirkland, WA - June 16, 2004 - Catalytic Software continues to strengthen its presence in the ISV market segment, this week announcing its inclusion in the Airframe Business Software partner program. Airframe provides small and mid-sized businesses with an immediate-use alternative to costly, complex enterprise software applications. Under the agreement, Catalytic will offer software development and sales support to Airframe’s software products.

By joining the Airframe program, Catalytic continues its ongoing commitment to make offshore accessible to small and medium sized ISVs. “Catalytic is pleased to join the Airframe partner program, and deeply values the opportunity it presents to deliver solutions to mutual customers,” said Tod Martin, VP Client Services at Catalytic Software. “The partnership integrates a high quality, low cost software product with high quality, low cost software services, both tailored for the same customer set.”

Airframe’s web-based software package is targeted at the estimated 7 million small and medium sized businesses in the United States. The partnership helps Airframe in two ways:

• Catalytic leverages its presence in the world’s fastest growing enterprise software market to promote Airframe’s 20+ business applications.
• Airframe is able to harness Catalytic’s numerous specialized tools, processes, and software service initiatives to deliver exceptional professional software services around its product offering at competitive rates.

Catalytic offers full lifecycle software services for software companies, with unique value propositions at every stage. The partnership with Airframe benefits Catalytic by:

• Providing the opportunity to pursue a value added product-led service offering as an Airframe Business Software reseller.
• Building a knowledge center around the Airframe core product offshore that can be leveraged by Airframe in future product research and development.

The growth of Catalytic’s partner base demonstrates the value of its business model, and its resonance with enterprise ISVs looking for a viable dual shore development and support option. In addition to offering high value added software product development at lower cost, Catalytic offers a proven, strategic roadmap for ISVs to enrich their professional support capabilities, broaden their product offering, and streamline the incorporation of customized components back into core product development.

About Airframe Business Software, Inc.
Airframe’s hosted business applications help small and mid-sized businesses, and departments within larger organizations, become more organized, more productive and more efficient by bringing structure to their day-to-day activities-and keeping customers, employees and partners working together.

Airframe customers choose from a ”department store” of world-class, customizable applications for administrative, customer-facing and operational functions, including: Human Resources, Help Desk, Customer Service, Sales, Marketing, Project Management, Facilities & Asset Management, Feature & Defect Tracking, Training, and Shipping & Receiving. Priced as a subscription per user, Airframe supports flexible job descriptions and secure integration between applications, with no additional charge per application.

Launched by Octane Software founder Robert Gryphon in August 2003, Airframe provides a cost-effective alternative to complex, expensive enterprise software. Airframe is 100 percent web-hosted, with nothing to install, just a standard Web browser for the PC or Mac. Customers benefit from a 30-day “no-nonsense” money-back guarantee and a 500 percent ROI guarantee.
Airframe helps companies focus on profits instead of technology.

Learn more at www.myairframe.com.

About Catalytic Software, Inc.
Catalytic Software provides specialized software development and professional support services to software companies, using an optimized global delivery model to help them transform their cost structures, enrich their product support services, and bring high quality software-based products to market faster. Areas of expertise include mobile and wireless and Microsoft technologies.

Founded by former Microsoft managers, Catalytic bundles deep technical capability, proven project management expertise, and first-hand understanding of the product development environment within a cost-effective, plug-and-play international service framework. Catalytic’s comprehensive approach is driven by its vision of opening the door to India for companies that previously found their size, complex technical requirements, and communication-intensive processes too great an obstacle to make offshore work.

Catalytic uses its state-of-the-art development center in India to offer a full suite of business options, from a project-based service to our innovative Next Generation BOT model. Catalytic’s flexible ‘see, try, buy’ approach helps software technology product companies realize the full potential of a well executed offshore strategy. More and more hi-tech companies are utilizing Catalytic as a trusted partner for their software development, testing, maintenance and product support needs, improving both their business fundamentals and their market opportunity without reducing quality.
Catalytic is headquartered in Seattle (USA) with offices in Cupertino, Washington DC, Vancouver (Canada), London (UK), and an ‘always on’ development center in India.

Please visit www.catalytic.com for further information.