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Objective Interface Announces ORBexpress Supports Small-footprint, Royalty-free ThreadX RTOS

HERNDON, VA - April 3, 2006 - Objective Interface Systems, Inc., the global leader in high-performance, real-time and embedded communications middleware, today announced that ORBexpress®, the world’s most popular high-performance object request broker (ORB), now supports the ThreadX® real-time operating system (RTOS) from Express Logic. Objective Interface customers will now be able to use the royalty-free ThreadX RTOS—which occupies only a tiny footprint on the embedded target—in resource-constrained applications such as digital cameras, wireless systems and audio processors. Objective Interface developers will also use ThreadX to design high-performance, highly deterministic embedded applications, such as factory floor controllers, advanced telemetry systems and medical electronics.

“By supporting ThreadX from Express Logic, we can now offer our communications middleware customers a very high-performance RTOS that is both extremely small and royalty-free,” said Joe Jacob, senior vice president, Objective Interface Systems, Inc. “We fully expect that our customers will benefit from the cost, size, speed and ease-of-use of the ThreadX operating system.”

“We are pleased that Objective Interface as the performance leader in communications middleware is now supporting our ThreadX operating system,” said John Carbone, vice president, Express Logic, Inc. “The extremely small footprint and fast speed of ORBexpress provides an ideal high-performance communications infrastructure for the ThreadX user community. We look forward to working with Objective Interface—a company that has helped thousands of embedded developers in diverse markets to achieve their goals—by supporting their customers for whom performance and small footprint are critically important.”

About ORBexpress
ORBexpress is based on the Real-time Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) standard that enables real-time and embedded devices in heterogeneous environments to communicate seamlessly. Thousands of customers worldwide have used the ORBexpress communications infrastructure to build more flexible, upgradeable and capable products. Available in C++, Ada and Java, ORBexpress has been recognized repeatedly as the fastest ORB in the industry in independent studies conducted by Boeing's Phantomworks Group and Lockheed Martin's Advanced Technology Laboratories, among others.

Availability
ORBexpress with support for ThreadX from Express Logic is currently available from Objective Interface. For more information on Objective Interface communications middleware, please visit: www.ois.com/products, call 1 800-800-OIS7 in the U.S., +33 (0) 1 34 63 02 45 in Europe or +81(0)3-5623-2112 in Japan or e-mail inquiries to: info@ois.com.

About Express Logic and ThreadX
Headquartered in San Diego, CA, Express Logic offers the most advanced run-time solutions for deeply embedded applications, including the popular ThreadX RTOS, which features small size and low overhead, and is extremely easy to use. The new ThreadX V5, released today (see: www.expresslogic.com ) introduces new capabilities that make ThreadX even smaller, faster and easier for developers to use. Complementing ThreadX are Express Logic's high-performance NetX™ TCP/IP stack, the FileX®—embedded MS-DOS compatible file system, and the USBX™ Host/Device USB protocol stack. All products from Express Logic include full source-code and have no run-time royalties. For more information about Express Logic solutions, please visit the Web site at http://www.expresslogic.com , call 1-888-THREADX, or email inquires to sales@expresslogic.com.

PRESS CONTACTS (not for publication):

OBJECTIVE INTERFACE
Alison Alberich
Phone: 703/295-6513
Email: alison.alberich@ois.com

VETRANO COMMUNICATIONS
Maria Vetrano
617/876-2770