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Skelmir's CEE-J Virtual Machine Now Available for Personal Use on Microsoft Windows® CE for StrongARM®

SOMERVILLE, Mass. - October 23, 2002 - Skelmir LLC today announced the immediate availability of a free personal development version of the CEE-J™ virtual machine for StrongARM devices running the Windows CE operating system. CEE-J is Skelmir's suite of fast, compact and proven clean room virtual machines for hosting Java™ applications on embedded devices.

The CEE-J clean room virtual machine for the PersonalJava™ configuration offers advanced graphical capabilities not found elsewhere. Using CEE-J, Java™ developers writing applications for deployment on WinCE/StrongARM embedded devices have access to a host of features including anti-aliased text and graphics, text on a path, true type font support, embossing, shading and more. These same features are available on all supported CEE-J platforms.

"The same advanced graphical capabilities that give CEE-J a leading edge in the digital television environment Skelmir is now making available to the legion of developers creating applications in Java™ for the handheld wireless market. Working with companies offering top of the line Intel StrongARM® and XScale®-based platforms such as Applied Data Systems and supporting the vast numbers of new PDAs on the market, we aim to make it quick, easy and affordable for customers to deploy Java™ applications to their embedded systems" said Shari Agatstein, President of Skelmir.

"Skelmir's CEE-J provides a fast and responsive VM for Java™ for mobile market needs, ideal for our low-power consuming platforms." said Bob Olsen, CEO of Applied Data Systems.

Independent developers and companies looking to obtain commercial use and distribution licenses for CEE-J can do so by contacting Skelmir directly.

CEE-J clean room configurations include support for CLDC, MIDP, Embedded and PersonalJava™. Real Time Java™ extensions, bytecode compilers, remote debugging and profiling tools are also available. In addition to support for the WindowsCE/StrongARM platform, CEE-J is available for a host of operating system and processor combinations, and supports industry standards for digital television, cell phones and more.


About Skelmir LLC

Skelmir is a US-based software company specializing in scalable embedded infrastructure solutions, specifically virtual machine and compilation technology for resource-constrained devices. Established in 1998, Skelmir's technology has been proven in the market with nearly 2,000,000 deployments to date with other large-scale deployments on the way. Skelmir's technical team is headed by CTO Mimir Reynisson, who has been personally involved with the creation of several commercially successful clean room virtual machines designed for Java™, including CEE-J. Skelmir's team of experts have been shipping commercial Java™ products since the inception of Java™ in 1995, having to their credit Roaster® - the first Integrated Development Environment for Java™ for the Macintosh and core clean room virtual machines used by well known computer and software industry leaders.

Skelmir's address and contact information is:

Skelmir LLC, 259 Elm Street, Suite 301, Somerville, MA 02144 USA
Tel: (617) 625-1551, Fax: (617) 776-0740
Email: info@skelmir.com, Web: www.skelmir.com

Skelmir, LLC is an independent company offering proven clean room virtual machine technologies for multiple Java Platforms. Skelmir is not affiliated with Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Media Contact:
Pete Mellor
Skelmir LLC
Tel: +1-617-625-1551
Email: pmellor@skelmir.com


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