FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
December 2, 2002

Media contact:
Iqbal M. Khan 

Director Sales and Marketing

AlachiSoft
US Toll Free: 1-(800) 253-8195
Intl: 1-(925) 236-3830
Fax: 1-(925) 886-2417

iqbal@alachisoft.com

TierDeveloper 2.0 Released for .NET

Provides tight integration with VS.NET and supports Web Services

San Ramon, California - December 2^nd, 2002 - AlachiSoft is pleased to announce the immediate availability of the TierDeveloper™ 2.0. TierDeveloper is an object-to-relational mapping and code generation tool that helps people cut down their middle-tier development time and cost. TierDeveloper is now tightly integrated with Visual Studio .NET and allows the user to use TierDeveloper from within VS.NET.

"TierDeveloper has added support for .NET Web Services and is geared toward enterprise application developers in both Microsoft .NET and Java/J2EE. By adding support for Web Services, TierDeveloper is now able to address a growing community of .NET developers who need to develop distributed applications. And, they can do it now from within Visual Studio .NET" said Iqbal Khan, Sales & Marketing Manager at AlachiSoft.

TierDeveloper supported platforms now include:

• Microsoft .NET with C# and VB.NET

• BEA WebLogic 6.1 & 7.0

• IBM WebSphere 4.0 & 5.0

• Oracle 9iAS

• JBoss 2.4 & 3.x

• SunONE App Server 7

Additionally, TierDeveloper supports the following leading database servers:

• Microsoft SQL Server

• Oracle

• DB2

TierDeveloper allows customers to significantly lower their development cost in a number of ways. First, customers can develop their software applications in much less time and without requiring more resources. This is really important in these difficult economic times when everybody is cutting back their budgets and is being forced to postpone and/or cancel important projects. Now, customers can develop their business-critical projects without having to increase their budgets.

TierDeveloper also helps customers improve the quality of their applications. This is because all the code that TierDeveloper generates is based on pre-tested code-templates. These code-templates have been tested for both functionality and performance. The end result of all this is a much higher quality application for our customers.

Pricing and Availability

TierDeveloper has a 30-day evaluation version available on AlachiSoft website. Pricing information is also available there. NO RUNTIME FEES, NO SERVER-CPU FEES, and NO DEPLOYMENT FEES charged by TierDeveloper. Customers only pay for developer licenses.

About AlachiSoft

AlachiSoft, a California based company, is in the business of providing Software Development Productivity Tools. And, the first tool in this line is TierDeveloper which helps developers of Enterprise Applications cut down their development time through object-to-relational mapping and code generating capabilities of TierDeveloper. TierDeveloper has been designed to become a Rapid Application Development (RAD) environment for customers who want to design and develop Enterprise systems in Java, J2EE, or Microsoft Technologies. Visit our website at http://www.alachisoft.com or send us an email at sales@alachisoft.com.

TierDeveloper is trademarks of AlachiSoft. All rights reserved. Java and Java-based marks are trademarks of Sun Microsystems in the US and other countries. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.