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Mindreef Named to the SD Times 100 for Third Consecutive Year

Receives Top Honors in Test & QA and Middleware Categories SD Times 100 2008

Hollis, NH – June 10, 2008 – Mindreef®, Inc., The SOA Quality Company™, today announced that for the third consecutive year it has been named to Software Development Times Magazine’s annual “SD Times 100” list. The 6th annual SD Times 100 recognizes the big influencers and innovators across the software development industry over the past calendar year. The magazine reaches more than 60,000 subscribers in 131 countries.

Mindreef has been named to the SD Times 100 in the “Middleware” and “Test and QA” categories along with industry leaders that include BEA, IBM, HP and CA. According to the editors of SD Times, winners in these categories “provide the best tools and systems for keeping track of [web] services” and are helping software become “more reliable and easier to fix.” A compete list of categories and winners can be found at http://www.bzmedia.com/sdtimes100.

"The software development industry is led by innovation," said Alan Zeichick, editorial director of BZ Media's SD Times. "When choosing the 2008 SD Times 100, we carefully considered each organization's products and services, reputation with development managers, and the new ideas and thought leadership that it has brought to the industry. Thanks to the SD Times 100 winners like Mindreef, the art and science of software development continues to advance at a rapid pace."

“Mindreef is honored to be recognized as a leader in the software industry by the editors of SD Times,” said Frank Grossman, president and CTO of Mindreef. “This is the third year in a row we’ve been named to the SD Times 100 list – underscoring our continued commitment to deliver industry leading solutions for Web services and SOA quality, compliance, collaboration and performance.”

The Mindreef SOAPscope Server™ product family – including SOAPscope Server, SOAPscope Architect™, SOAPscope Tester™ and SOAPscope Developer™ – provides collaborative quality processes that range from defining organizational SOA policies, to Web services testing, diagnosis and simulation, as well as user support. This ensures that every member of a project team can deliver quality SOAs and services in an agile development lifecycle, by delivering better software at each phase. Mindreef products are available for purchase or no-risk evaluation at: www.mindreef.com.

About Mindreef
Mindreef, Inc., The SOA Quality Company, provides integrated software solutions that help organizations ensure trust, confidence and agility in their quality-driven SOA deployments. The Mindreef award-winning SOAPscope Server™ product family helps business analysts, architects, application developers, testers, operations and support staff to ensure quality, compliance and performance as they define, implement, integrate, test and deploy Web services and composite applications. Teams at Wachovia, Fidelity National Financial, Charles Schwab, IBM, Valero Energy and more than 3,000 customers at over 1,200 organizations worldwide – including 40 of the Fortune 100 – use Mindreef SOAPscope Server products to successfully build, test and maintain high-quality Web services and SOAs. Mindreef is a private company, backed by Kodiak Venture Partners. For more information, visit www.mindreef.com.

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Mindreef Wins its Third Consecutive Jolt Productivity Award

SOAPscope Tester Recognized by a Respected Panel of Editors, Expert Advisers and Columnists
as one of the Top Innovations Changing the Software Development Landscape

Hollis, NH – March 6, 2008 – Mindreef®, Inc., The SOA Quality Company™, today announced that it has been awarded a highly coveted 2008 Jolt Productivity Award in the “Testing Tools” category for SOAPscope Tester™ version 6.1, its Web services testing and SOA quality platform. Mindreef was previously honored with a Jolt Productivity Award for its flagship SOAPscope Server™ collaborative team-based solution in 2007; and for its SOAPscope® Web services diagnostic tool in 2007, 2004 and 2003.

“We’re thrilled that SOAPscope Tester is recognized as one of the most innovative, ahead-of-the-curve products in software testing,” said Frank Grossman, co-founder and CTO of Mindreef. “Receiving our fifth Jolt Award is a tremendous honor – we’re one away from a six-pack! Thanks again to the makers of Jolt Cola, the editors at Dr. Dobb’s Journal, the contributors and staff at the Software Development Conference & Expo for recognizing innovation and excellence in our field.”

SOAPscope Tester is part of the Mindreef SOAPscope Server product family of Web services testing and quality management solutions that help organizations ensure trust, confidence and agility in their SOA deployments. SOAPscope Tester provides an integrated set of tools for Web services performance and load testing, design-time support, prototyping, change-time and run-time support. Testing early and often enables QA engineers, testers and consultants to identify quality problems and performance bottlenecks early in the service lifecycle -- saving time and money while improving quality, trust and reuse. Mindreef products are available for purchase or no-risk evaluation at www.mindreef.com.

The Jolt Product Excellence and Productivity Awards are judged by a respected panel of Dr. Dobb’s Journal editors, expert advisers and columnists. The awards were presented at the Software Development Conference’s 18th Annual Jolt Product Excellence and Productivity Awards ceremony in Santa Clara, California on March 5, 2008. The Jolt Awards honor software products, books and Web sites that have “jolted” the industry by helping to create faster, easier and more efficient software.

"The winners reflect the great innovations thriving in the industry today, and it was especially satisfying to see industry leaders as well as newcomers changing how developers work by giving them great new products that reflect the changing software development landscape," said Amber Ankerholz, conference manager for Dr. Dobb's Events. This year’s winners will be featured in the June 2008 issue of Dr. Dobb’s Journal. For more information on the awards, visit www.drdobbsjournal.com.

Mindreef Enhances SOAPscope Server WS-Security Support and Introduces New Role-Specific Products

Role-Based Products Provide Cost-effective Stepping Stones from the Desktop to the Server;
Lets Users Verify Adherence to WS-Security Standards While Ensuring Trust, Confidence and Agility

Hollis, NH – January 15, 2008 – Mindreef®, Inc., The SOA Quality Company™, today announced availability of SOAPscope Server 6.1, the latest offering of the company’s flagship collaborative team-based solution for testing and verifying the quality of service-oriented architectures (SOAs). Highlights include support for several OASIS WS-Security standards requested by customers; this underscores that the use of practical elements from the advanced Web services standards and profiles is increasing as SOA adoption continues. The company also introduced three new desktop products: SOAPscope Architect™, SOAPscope Tester™, and SOAPscope Developer™ – each combining best-in-class Mindreef tools and capabilities tailored for individual roles within Web services and SOA project teams. These enhanced offerings are available for purchase or no-risk evaluation at www.mindreef.com.