04/19/05

AVICODE'S .NET APPLICATION MONITORING SOFTWARE WILL SHIP WITH MICROSOFT OPERATIONS MANAGER 2005

BALTIMORE, Md. (April 19, 2005) – Microsoft Corp. and AVIcode, Inc. today announced that the Operations Edition of Intercept Studio®, AVIcode's industry-leading .NET application monitoring software for the Microsoft® .NET Framework, will be distributed with Microsoft Operations Manager® 2005 (MOM 2005). Intercept Studio Operations Edition for MOM 2005 will be distributed as the Microsoft .NET Management Pack from the MSDN® web site and from the MOM 2005 web site beginning July 2005.

With its availability, MOM 2005 will become the complete platform for managing .NET Framework applications, allowing customers to establish enterprise standards for monitoring the health of ASP.NET, Web Services and .NET remoting applications.

“AVIcode is committed to providing the most advanced real-time, in-production application monitoring available in the industry,” said Mike Curreri, CEO of AVIcode. “With the delivery of Intercept Studio Operations Edition for MOM 2005, we have worked closely with Microsoft to provide a solution that of unparalleled system health monitoring capability.”

With a rich set of capabilities that are tightly integrated with MOM 2005, Intercept Studio Operations Edition for MOM 2005 provides visibility into the performance and behavior of deployed .NET applications, significantly reducing troubleshooting and maintenance costs.