Achievement for Leading Grid Computing Solutions Vendor Establishes Competitive Advantage in Marketplace

Toronto ON, May 10, 2006 – Platform Computing Corporation, the global leader in grid computing software solutions, today announced that it has achieved Common Criteria certification for its enterprise grid products. Issued by the Communications Security Establishment (CSE), and accepted by more than 20 governments worldwide, Common Criteria certification is an international standard for ensuring that information technology products conform to stringent security requirements.

Products certified include Platform LSF® and Platform LSF HPC, industry-leading workload management solutions, and Platform LSF MultiCluster, software that allows organizations to share IT resources spanning geographical locations.

"Platform Computing is pleased to meet the stringent requirements of the Common Criteria certification process, providing government agencies with independent evaluation of an IT product’s security functions and the associated product developer methodology," said Songnian Zhou, CEO, Chairman and Co-founder of Platform Computing. "Platform Computing is the first grid computing software vendor to achieve this certification, thus ensuring government customers that their underlying security needs can be met as they deploy grid-enabled solutions to improve application performance, lower costs and increase resource utilization."

In response to market demand, Platform Computing chose Evaluation Assurance Level (EAL) 2 for its initial certification, and is committed to ongoing certification as required by the marketplace.

About Platform Computing

Platform Computing, the global leader in grid computing solutions, helps enterprises accelerate key business applications, reduce operational and capital costs, guarantee service levels and optimize their IT resources. Platform’s integrated desktop and enterprise grid software solutions are used by over 2,000 customers worldwide in the financial services, government, industrial manufacturing, electronics and life science industries to deliver higher quality products and services, improve business performance and maximize the return on IT investments. Founded in 1992, Platform has strategic relationships with Apple, Dell, HP, IBM, Intel, SAS and SGI, and the Industry’s broadest application integration support. More information about Platform can be found at www.platform.com.