Award-winning software to be optimized for speed and scalability

Honolulu HI - May 16, 2000  Inovaware Corp., the leading provider of billing and customer management infrastructure for providers of Internet and IP-based services, today announced support for Compaq’s next generation AlphaServer GS Series (also announced today by Compaq). Inovaware’s award-winning PRISM™ solution for Tru64 UNIX will be optimized for the new AlphaServers to offer customers an unprecedented combination of speed, scalability and reliability.

Scalability-tested with Compaq at the multi-million mark,PRISM has a sophisticated distributed processing architecture that can take full advantage of the raw power of the new AlphaServer’s 64-bit architecture and 51.2 GB of aggregate memory bandwidth to execute processing-intensive operations at blazing speed on Tru64 UNIX platforms. The PRISM and AlphaServer combination supplies growing Service Providers with solutions that can scale progressively without involving a massive up-front investment.

“Inovaware’s award-winning billing and customer management system is designed to rapidly scale to accommodate explosive growth. This fits perfectly with Compaq’s new AlphaServer systems architecture,” said Inovaware CEO Marc Rapoza. “Our PRISM software combined with Compaq’s new AlphaServer GS Series systems, will enable our customers around the world to grow their business more quickly and more cost-effectively than ever before on the Tru64 UNIX or Open VMS platform.”

"The AlphaServer GS Series systems are the ultimate Compaq NonStop™ eBusiness Solution engines for the demanding environments of Internet and IP-based service providers because they enable applications to run reliably, securely and at peak performance all the time," said Don Harbert, vice president, High Performance Server Business Unit, Compaq Computer Corporation. "The raw performance and scalability of the AlphaServer GS Series on Tru64 UNIX, as well as OpenVMS, is ideally suited to enhance the capabilities of PRISM, and when integrated, enables Compaq and Inovaware to provide a world-class solution to our Service Provider customers."

Inovaware is committed to deliver high performance billing and customer management solutions to meet the challenging requirements of growing Service Providers. Early adopters of the company’s PRISM software include Jfax (NASDAQ: JFAX), the largest provider of Unified Messaging services worldwide, and Gamestorm, the leading online gaming site. 

Information about Inovaware and its solutions is available at www.inovaware.com

About Inovaware Corporation
Inovaware Corporation is a leading business systems provider in the Internet industry.  The company was founded in 1996 and has since grown to become a premier provider of customer management and billing software for ISPs, ASPs, Web hosting companies, backbone providers, online gaming companies and other service providers. Based in Honolulu, Hawaii, the company continues to provide innovative solutions for its corporate clients. 

About Compaq
Compaq Computer Corporation, a Fortune Global 100 company, is the largest supplier of computing systems in the world. Compaq designs, develops, manufactures and markets hardware, software, solutions, and services, including industry-leading computing solutions, fault-tolerant business critical solutions, and communications products, commercial desktop and portable products, and consumer PCs. Information about Compaq and its products is available at www.compaq.com