St. Louis, MO (August 18, 2003) — Tsunami Research™ today announced the availability of a new solution called the Hive Starter Kit™.

“One thing our current and potential customers have made clear is that they need an affordable, integrated solution that will enable their developers to begin creating Hive-based applications,” said Bob Lozano, Tsunami Research’s CEO. “Our goal with the Hive Starter Kit is to meet that need.”

The Hive Starter Kit is a bundled software and hardware solution, priced at $9,950, which includes everything developers need to begin creating Hive-based applications. The Hive Starter Kit includes five computers, five HiveCreator™ licenses, a monitor, and everything else that is required to set up a Hive of five Workers™.

In addition to the Hive Starter Kit, Tsunami Research is also introducing two new services to help developers get up to speed on Hive Computing.

The first service, called a Hive Planning Workshop™, is a facilitated session that is conducted by a Tsunami Research Solution Architect and is designed to help organizations identify applications that can be deployed in a Hive™. The output of a Hive Planning Workshop is a project plan for a pilot implementation of a Hive.

The second service, called the Tsunami Research Mentor Program™, is designed to educate developers on the best practices of developing Hive-based applications. The Tsunami Research Mentor Program gives developers direct access to the architects of HiveCreator.

Tsunami Research, Inc. is a software company pioneering Hive Computing™, a new approach to the development, deployment, and management of mission critical applications. HiveCreator™, Tsunami Research’s flagship product, is a software toolkit that enables large numbers of dedicated, commodity computers to form a mission critical computing environment called a Hive™. A Hive is self-healing, self-organizing, and self-maintaining and, as a result, is simultaneously survivable, scalable, and reliable. The Tsunami Research core team, led by CEO Bob Lozano, previously founded PaylinX Corporation, makers of an enterprise payment processing engine for handling credit card and other transactions. PaylinX was acquired by CyberSource in 2000 in a deal valued at more than $130M. For more information about Tsunami Research, Hive Computing, or HiveCreator, call 314.336.5080, email , or visit www.tsunamiresearch.com.

Tsunami Research™, HiveCreator™, Hive™, Hive Computing™, Hive Starter Kit™, Hive Planning Workshop™, Tsunami Research Mentor Program™, Worker™, Application Fabric™, Assimilation™, Collective Intelligence™, The Best of all Worlds™, and The First Hive Computing Solution™ are trademarks of Tsunami Research, Inc. All other trademarks are held by their respective owners.

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