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2000 August 29^th - Press Release

META INTEGRATION MODEL BRIDGE PROVIDES MIGRATION SOLUTION FOR RATIONAL ROSE 2000E USERS

PHILADEPHIA, Pennsylvania, August 29^st, 2000 – Meta Integration today announces availability of version 2.4.4 of the Meta Integration™ Model Bridge (MIMB), a solution for legacy data migration and Metadata integration for Rational Software Corporation's Rose 2000E visual modeling product. Meta Integration Technology, Inc. (MITI) is demonstrating the Model Bridge at the Rational User Conference 2000 to show how companies can address the issue of migrating from legacy data modeling solutions.

Additionally, Meta Integration, a Rational Unified Partner, and Rational Software have reached an agreement to provide Rational's technical consultants with the Meta Integration Model Bridge product. Historically, Rational and Meta Integration have worked together to provide metadata movement solutions for Rational Rose users. Having access to version 2.4.4 of the Meta Integration Model Bridge will allow Rational technical consultants to show customers how they can migrate legacy metadata to the Rational Rose Data Modeler included with Rational Rose 2000E.

"Meta Integration Model Bridge can solve the problem of migrating legacy metadata to Rose Data Modeler from virtually any data modeling tool." said Eric Naiburg, Rose Data Modeler Product Manager at Rational. "Giving our customers a way to migrate from other tools to Rose will allow them to start using Rose for database design while not losing the investment in data modeling they have already made."

MIMB offers bridges from/to CA(Platinum) ERwin, Oracle Designer 2000, Sybase PowerDesigner, CA(Sterling) COOL:GEN(TI Composer), DBA(Terrain), COOL:BusinessTeam(Groundworks), COOL:Enterprise(ADW), Popkin SystemArchitect, PrincetonSoftech Select SE, Silverrun, Visible IE:Advantage, and more. In addition, MIMB can also support the open metadata integration of Rational Rose with other metadata repositories from IBM, Microsoft, NCR, Oracle, and SAS.

The need for data movement and data integration solutions is driven by the fact that data lies everywhere underneath business applications. The same applies for metadata: metadata is also everywhere underneath the software and database development tools, as well as within the repositories delivered with the Data Warehousing (DW), and Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) environments. The Meta Integration Model Bridge (MIMB) represents MITI's metadata movement solution. "With over 20 bridges, MIMB is the most complete metadata movement solution on the market" said Christian Bremeau, CEO of Meta Integration. This latest release includes support for additional data and object modeling tools, as well as metadata repository sources in particular in the DW, DM, and ETL world. This latest version also includes more complete and updated support for the latest XML based metadata standards, including:

• The Object Management Group (OMG) XML Metadata Interchange (XMI) as supported by the Unisys Universal Repository (UREP), and other products from the members of the OMG Analysis & Design Group such as IBM and Oracle.
• The Meta Data Coalition (MDC) XML based on the Open Information Model (OIM) as supported by the Microsoft Repository v3, and other products from the MDC Advance Guard group.

ABOUT META INTEGRATION TECHNOLOGY, INC

Incorporated in 1997, Meta Integration Technology, Inc. (MITI) is a privately held startup based in Silicon-Valley. MITI is focused on providing tools for data and metadata movement solutions. MITI has established numerous partnerships in both the government and industry sectors, including with the DoD Health Affairs (OSD HA), Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA), Computer Associates (ERwin), Microsoft Corporation (Repository), Rational Software Corporation (Rose), and Sun MicroSystems (JavaSoft). MITI is also involved with several relevant standards, including the Object Management Group (OMG) as an influencing member, the Meta Data Coalition (MDC) as part of the Advance Guard group, and the latest HL7 standard for XML based integration in the health care sector.

ABOUT RATIONAL SOFTWARE CORPORATION

Rational Software Corporation (Nasdaq: RATL), the e-development company, helps organizations develop and deploy software for e-business, e-infrastructure, and e-devices through a combination of tools, services and software engineering best practices. The Rational Unified Partner Program supports over 300 participating partners with tools, joint marketing opportunities, qualifications and training, and ensures that their products and services meet the high standards that customers have come to expect from Rational. The Rational Unified Partner Program extends Rational's e-development solution, providing extended product and service offerings, further enabling Rational customers to build Internet software faster with higher quality. Companies and individual technology consultants interested in learning more about the Rational Unified Partner Program, including details on how to participate, can visit http://www.rational.com.