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Allegro Delivers Robust UPnP Media Server With Cross-Platform iTunes Support
Leading provider of UPnP toolkits for Digital Media products offers proven Windows and Macintosh versions of Media Server
LAS VEGAS — Jan 3, 2005

LAS VEGAS - Jan 3, 2005 - The momentum around UPnP as a foundational technology for the connected home continues to build. Allegro, the leading provider of UPnP and device management technology for embedded applications, today announced the commercial release of its Allegro Media Server (AMS) product. Available for both Windows and Macintosh platforms, the AMS is a fully compliant UPnP AV Server offering transparent networked access to music stored on home computers in Apple’s iTunes library format. AMS is built from a proven core of UPnP technology also used at the heart of leading Digital Media Player products.

Allegro is a company with a focus on perfecting UPnP software technology optimized for implementations of networked devices such as Digital Media Players and Internet radio systems. Rather than adapt PC or open source software technology, Allegro has engineered its own software development kits and tools specifically for the embedded systems marketplace, recognizing the challenges of developing products in these cost sensitive markets. Requiring only minimal amounts of memory and supporting a broad range of leading semiconductor platforms, Allegro’s products have been refined through collaboration with others in the UPnP community – especially the UPnP Forum and the Digital Living Network Alliance (DNLA). The release of the AMS consolidates Allegro’s leading position by pairing its PC and Mac software server offerings with the well received media player products from such leading vendors as Philips and Roku.

“We are pleased to make the Allegro Media Server available to fill gaps in the feature set of other available UPnP server offerings” said Bob Van Andel, President and CEO of Allegro. “By using AMS to make iTunes library contents available on all UPnP AV devices, we hope to build on the success of the world’s leading music player, and reinforce the message that UPnP is the way to share media in the connected home.”

Allegro Software Streams iTunes Digital Music Libraries to Networked Music Players
Allegro Media Server Streams Digital Music Files from Macintosh or Windows iTunes® Libraries to Wired or Wireless Networked Digital Music Players using UPnP™ Technology
LAS VEGAS — January 9, 2004

LAS VEGAS - January 9, 2004 - Allegro Software Development Corporation, a leading provider of embedded Internet technology, today announced the Allegro Media Server. The Allegro Media Server,which was demonstrated at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), provides the ability to present an iTunes Digital Music Library over both wired and wireless networks to networked UPnP-based Digital Music Players such as the Philips Streamium series and NETGEAR MP 101.

The Allegro Media Server runs as a background application on Macintosh (OS-9, OS-X) and Windows (98, Me, XP, 2000) personal computers and provides a bridge between an iTunes Digital Music Library and the world of networked digital audio players.

“Music fans know that bringing digital music to stereo systems in the home office, bedroom or family room can sometimes be tricky,” said Bob Van Andel, President of Allegro. “By using the new networked media players from respected equipment companies like Philips and NETGEAR, in combination with the Allegro Media Server, the music stored in iTunes and iPods can be enjoyed on stereo systems throughout the home.”

Allegro created its Media Server using UPnP technology, one of the latest industry open standards. UPnP technology is all about making home networking simple and affordable for everyone, so the connected home experience becomes a mainstream reality. UPnP architecture leverages TCP/IP and Web technologies to enable seamless networking in addition to control and data transfer among networked devices in the home. The Allegro Media Server is fully compliant with the UPnP v1.0.1 specifications and the UPnP AV DCP 1.0 specifications. The Allegro Media Server will ship in March, 2004.

Allegro Software is a leading provider of embedded Internet applications and technology. The company designs, develops, and markets these applications and related software for embedded environments. Allegro’s RomPager product family is the most widely used OEM embedded Internet software on the planet today, with over 4,000,000 devices shipped. For further information on Allegro, please see www.allegrosoft.com. To be notified when the Allegro Media Server is released, please contact ams@allegrosoft.com.

For further information on the UPnP architecture, please see www.upnp.org.

For further information on the Philips Streamium family of products, please see www.streamium.com.

For further information on the NETGEAR MP 101 Wireless Digital Music Player, please see www.netgear.com.

UPnP™ is a certification mark of the UPnP Implementers Corporation. (www.upnp-ic.org). The names of other companiesand products mentioned herein are the trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders.

Allegro Software Partners with Philips Semiconductor
EINDHOVEN, THE NETHERLANDS - December 16, 2003

BUSINESS NEWS FROM PHILIPS
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Philips Announces Nexperia Home Partner Program for Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) Targeting Nexperia Home Semiconductor System Solutions

Leading Independent Software Vendors and Integrators create embedded multimedia middleware and application software for innovative consumer applications for the Connected Home

Eindhoven, The Netherlands – December 15, 2003 - Royal Philips Electronics (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHI) today announced the Nexperia Home Partner Program designed to help Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) and Integrators market software-based products for the powerful Nexperia Home semiconductor system solutions. Eleven leading ISVs are on board to develop middleware, applications and reference designs in support of the Nexperia family of products.

As a result, a new wave of innovative consumer applications for the Connected Home will be realized in DVD recorders, Analog/Digital TVs, HDTVs, home media servers and set-top box applications. These Philips Nexperia semiconductor system solutions, augmented with the value-added applications from the ISVs, will be showcased at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nevada, from January 8-11, 2004.

The initial Nexperia Home Partner Program participants are leading ISVs and Integrators including: Allegro Software, ANT Limited, Blunk Microsystems, Cabot Communications, DivXNetworks, ICT Embedded, Mediabolic, Momentum Data
Systems, Planetweb, Streaming Networks, and Wind River Systems. These companies are developing software-based products complementing the Nexperia Home semiconductor system solutions to support a wide range of new opportunities for manufacturers of innovative consumer electronics products and systems. “The market for a new generation of digital consumer products for the “Connected Home” will increase 20 percent year-over-year for the next 5 years. Fast growing
products include wireless media adapters to connect the PC with the TV/entertainment center, smart DVD recorders, home media servers and digital televisions with multimedia capabilities,” according to Tim Bajarin, President, Creative Strategies. “These leading ISVs are the catalyst that will give Nexperia Home solutions the added value to really cause some excitement for manufacturers of consumer electronics products around the globe.”

“The advanced capabilities offered by Nexperia Home semiconductor system solutions combined with Wind River Platform for Consumer Devices provides digital TV and advanced STB manufacturers with an integrated digital video and home gateway hardware/software reference design. Manufacturers pursuing the tremendous opportunities in the “Connected Home” benefit from this tightly integrated reference design since they can focus on differentiation and value-add. We are pleased to work with Philips to provide an integrated hardware/software foundation for the “Connected Home,” said Brad Murdoch, Vice President and General Manager, Wind River.

“Our SpectraWorks family of flexible and portable DVD recorder applications and developer tools are perfect for the Nexperia Home semiconductor system solutions. Now, manufacturers using the Nexperia Home solutions can fully realize the advantages of a ‘design once’ approach to consumer electronics development, delivering products in less time and at a lower cost than ever before,” said Ken Soohoo, CEO, Planetweb.

“ANT PurePlay integrated on Nexperia technology breaks the dominance of the PC for viewing digital media content in the home. PurePlay on Nexperia lets manufacturers and consumers rapidly exploit the TV’s potential for family viewing of digital photos, downloadable MP3s and MPEG movies,” said Simon Woodward, President and CEO, ANT Limited.

“The Nexperia Home portfolio of semiconductor system solutions was expanded and experienced significant design-ins for TV, DVD recorder and media server applications for the Connected Home”, said Leon Husson, Executive Vice President Consumer Businesses, Philips Semiconductors. “Now, teaming up with the leading ISVs and Integrators, I expect to create the leading category of home entertainment engines through the Nexperia Home family of semiconductor solutions.”

The Nexperia Home Partner Program offers leading ISVs and Integrators a complete set of technical tools and information so that manufacturers of products can be offered complete solutions that include hardware, complete software stacks and support. Philips has established a complete program that includes joint marketing programs, access to tools, the Nexperia Users Exchange, and information via a program portal: www.semiconductors.philips.com/nexperia.

In addition, complete software development kits for digital TV and DVD+RW are planned. In the first quarter of 2004, a digital TV kit based on the Nexperia PNX 8550 System-on-Chip will be released, made up of development hardware, software applications, documented application programming interface and operating system. A similar DVD+RW software development kit is planned for the third quarter of 2004. Specific application support will become available to participants in the program as the kits become available. As a result, quick results could be anticipated for the roll out of new applications and functionality in the fast growing area related to the Connected Consumer.

About Royal Philips Electronics
Royal Philips Electronics of the Netherlands is one of the world's biggest electronics companies and Europe's largest, with sales of EUR 31.8 billion in 2002. It is a global leader in color television sets, lighting, electric shavers, medical diagnostic imaging and patient monitoring, and one-chip TV products. Its 166,500 employees in more than 60 countries are active in the areas of lighting, consumer electronics, domestic appliances, semiconductors, and medical systems. Philips is quoted on the NYSE (symbol: PHG), London, Frankfurt, Amsterdam and other stock exchanges. News from Philips is located at www.semiconductors.philips.com

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Editorial Contacts:
Europe: Marijke Sas
Philips Tel. +31 40 272 2091,
Marijke.Sas@philips.com
USA: Paul Morrison
Philips Tel. +1 408 474 5065,
Paul.Morrison@philips.com
Asia Pacific: Robyn Kao
Philips Tel. +886 2 2382 4025,
Robyn.Kao@philips.com

Allegro Software Demo Praised
BOXBOROUGH, MA - March 25, 2002

BOXBOROUGH, MA (March 25, 2002) Allegro Software Development Corporation - The following is an exerpt from VDC's Embedded Systems Industry Bulletin - March 2002:

"The best demo we saw was one we bet you missed. Allegro Software Development had a little display highlighting their embedded web server technology using a Lego house with lights and sensors that allowed you to remotely control the lights and monitor the status of the doors. The interesting thing was that both its standard HTTP web server and its new UPnP based server were attached to the same little house. The difference was dramatic. The real time updating of the UPnP system contrasted with the need to constantly refresh the browser on the other system. This demo had all the features that we at VDC think are effective:

It was simple, but made its point (we see too many highly abstract demos).
The demo was based on actual application (in this case, home monitoring and control).
It was tangible (nothing like getting your hands on something, even for a minute).
It worked (few things are worse than a demo that fails, though we see that a lot)."

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Monitor and Control Using a Browser

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Allegro Software is a leading OEM supplier of Internet software for the embedded market. With over 2,000,000 deployed embedded Web servers, Allegro has some of the world's best companies as its customers; companies like American Power Conversion, Casio, Cisco, Hewlett-Packard, McDATA, Motorola, Sony, 3Com and Xerox. Allegro's industry-leading software includes Web servers, Web clients, Email (SMTP and POP3) clients, an XML parser/framer and Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) toolkits.

OSE Systems offers a copmplete set of Internet Toolkits for embedded developers
Allegro Software Development supports their entire product line on the OSE realtime kernel
BOXBOROUGH, MA - November 21, 2001

BOXBOROUGH, MA (November 12, 2001) Allegro Software Development Corporation, the foremost supplier of embedded Internet toolkits, has joined OSE Systems, Inc., provider of OSE(tm) real-time operating system (RTOS) and INET TCP/IP software, in a strategic relationship to provide complete development solutions for network-enabled devices.

The Allegro RomPager family of network enabling toolkits includes the RomPager embedded Web server, RomMail and RomPOP email clients, RomXML eXtensible Markup Language parser/framer, RomUPNP Universal Plug and Play, RomWebClient embedded Web client, and other network application toolkits. The Allegro toolkits have been used to build devices to monitor and control telecom/datacom equipment, HVAC systems, refrigeration systems, printers, VoIP telephones, and handheld test equipment. The Allegro RomPager embedded Web server is used in millions of devices.

The addition of the OSE RTOS and INET software to the Allegro RomPager family makes this combined offering the most complete network-enabling set of toolkits on the market. The advantages of the Allegro toolkits are: they were developed specifically for embedded systems thus they have a small footprint, are hardware and software platform independent, highly reliable, and are sold without royalties.

Bob Van Andel, president of Allegro Software Development Corporation, said he is "pleased to be working with one of the leading RTOS providers in the industry. The OSE support for mission critical applications is exactly what manufacturers need when deploying their devices remotely and controlling them across the network."

"The addition of the small footprint, high performance RomPager embedded Web server, the Universal Plug and Play and RomPager XML solutions to OSE makes us more competitive on the embedded market now that it is expanding usage of the Internet", says Marie Samuelsson, Product Marketing Manager for Internet Protocol and Infrastructure Products at OSE Systems AB.

About Allegro Software Development

Allegro Software Development Corporation is a market leader for Internet appliance solutions. The company was founded with a vision of bringing the advantages of Internet-based management and connectivity to embedded devices. Allegro developed the RomPager family of Internet applications specifically for this embedded environment. The RomPager source code product family provides Web and e-mail access for devices integrated with the leading RTOS/TCP stacks. RomPager is a full-function embedded Web server. RomMailer and RomPOP allow devices to send/receive e-mail messages and attachments. RomWebClient allows devices to retrieve pages/objects from the Web. The RomXML parser/framer permits devices to transmit data using the latest technology.

About OSE Systems

OSE Systems develops and distributes real-time operating systems (RTOS) and development tools for safety-critical, high-availability, distributed and fault-tolerant applications. OSE Systems was founded in 1996, and currently employs over 200 people worldwide. The company focuses primarily on creating the software to develop and support high-performance, mission-critical applications in the following industries: telecommunications, data communications, wireless devices, avionics and industrial control. Key customers include Ericsson, Lockheed Martin, Samsung, Agere Systems, Sony, and Boeing. OSE Systems is a subsidiary of Enea Group (SAXESS: ENEA), which markets and sells services and training. Located in Stockholm, Sweden, the Enea Group employs over 900 people. For more information on OSE Systems, please visit http://www.ose.com.

RomUPNP Advanced added to Allegro family of UPnP Device Toolkits
BOXBOROUGH, MA - August 15, 2001

BOXBOROUGH, MA (August 15, 2001) Allegro Software Development Corporation has added the RomUPNP Advanced toolkit to its family of Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) toolkits.

Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) is a set of open standards technologies for transparently connecting appliances, PCs, and services by extending the Plug and Play concept to support networks and peer-to-peer discovery, configuration and control. The UPnP Forum is committed to device interoperability in a number of areas and has established working groups for Home Automation and Security, Internet Gateways, Imaging and Printing, Audio/Video, Mobile Devices and Appliances.

The RomUPNP Advanced toolkit includes full versions of the RomPager Advanced Embedded Web Server, the RomWebClient and the RomXML parser/framer. The RomUPNP Advanced toolkit supports Discovery, Description, Presentation, Control, and Event Messaging. Included in the RomUPNP Advanced toolkit is a compiler for translating Device and Service description templates into the necessary control tables and application function calls. A full UPnP device such as an Internet Gateway Device can be built using less than 100 Kbytes of memory.

The RomUPNP Basic Toolkit provides embedded devices the ability to interoperate with UPnP 1.0 Control Points such as Windows Millenium and provides support for Discovery, Description, and Presentation services. The RomUPNP Basic toolkit is a small-memory implementation and adds less than 10 Kbytes to the RomPager Web Server that is used for Presentation services, thus allowing UPnP to be used in a wide array of devices.

Included with each toolkit is a UPnP Device Viewer program to allow Windows 95, 98, NT, 2000, Me, and XP operating systems to be UPnP Control Points without custom programming. The UPnP Device Viewer detects UPnP enabled devices, obtains and displays the device description, and with a click on the device name connects to the device via the default Web browser. The UPnP Device Viewer can detect when new devices connect to the network and when existing devices are shut down.

Both of the UPnP toolkits are now shipping and are provided in ANSI-C source code form. The toolkits are sold with no runtime royalties.

UPnP Device Viewer added to Allegro family of UPnP Device Toolkits
BOXBOROUGH, MA - February 28, 2001

BOXBOROUGH, MA, (February 28, 2001), Allegro Software Development Corporation announces it is shipping the UPnP Device Viewer program with every RomUPNP toolkit. The Device viewer program displays all Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) enabled devices on the local network.

The Windows XP operating system supports the UPnP protocols and provide an easy way to detect, describe, and connect to UPnP devices. Earlier versions of the Windows operating systems have limited or no support for UPnP. The Allegro UPnP Device Viewer program works with any Microsoft Windows operating system. The UPnP Device Viewer program discovers all UPnP enabled devices by requesting them to send out their ID and the Viewer displays the name of the device in a window. When the device shuts down it send out the shutdown information and the name disappears from the Viewer window.

Clicking or highlighting the device name them clicking on the Details button presents complete information about the device including its unique UPnP identification number, name, serial number, version, and other details. It also shows the URL of the device.

Double clicking the device name in the Viewer window brings up the default Web browser and connects to the opening HTML page of the device.

The UPnP Device Viewer is great for home entertainment centers that utilize UPnP enabled devices. One can easily see which devices are powered up and running. In the office is can be used to see which printers, scanners, and other UPnP enabled devices are available.

Allegro Introduces RomUPNP and Expands Embedded Internet Software Family
SAN JOSE, CA - September 26, 2000

SAN JOSE, CA - September 26, 2000: Allegro Software Development Corporation, a leading provider of Internet/Web toolkits for embedded devices is announcing another Internet/Web enabling product, the RomUPnP Basic Toolkit.

UPnP is based on simple, open protocols such as those defined by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) that have a proven track record of enabling real-world multiple-vendor interoperation. TCP/IP has been implemented by many vendors on many diverse computing platforms, yet these implementations are able to communicate reliably and without a massive multiple-vendor test effort. When browsing the Web using HTTP, users move seamlessly between different server operating systems and different Web server implementations without any client-side code or configuration changes. The Internet itself, in spite of its huge size, is not managed by any single authority. Wire protocols are proven technology. Universal Plug and Play uses the Internet open protocol model. Device vendors in the Universal Plug and Play architecture are not constrained to implement any single vendor's technology, and are assured that they will interoperate with the largest number of other vendors' products.

Universal Plug and Play's focus on explicit open wire protocols means that it is language and operating system neutral. The advantages of this approach to developers are obvious; the choice of language and operating system gives them the flexibility to choose the best platform for their device and still be confident that their products will be able to interact with other Universal Plug and Play devices, regardless of platform. For example, it is possible for a developer using Windows to interact with services on non-Windows devices by invoking Windows-based APIs, object models, or even XML-enabled data-driven programming using familiar languages and tools, regardless of the Universal Plug and Play implementation on the device providing the service. Allegro's RomUPNP toolkit is delivered in ANSI-C source code format and using the Allegro Software Abstraction Layer is available for a wide variety of device operating systems.

Allegro Software is a leading OEM supplier of Internet software for the embedded market. With over 1,000,000 deployed embedded Web servers, Allegro has some of the world's best companies as its customers; companies like American Power Conversion, Casio, Cisco, Hewlett-Packard, Honeywell, Motorola, Nortel, Sony, 3Com and Xerox. Allegro's industry-leading source code product family includes Web servers, Web clients, Email (SMTP and POP3) clients, and XML tools. The RomPager product family provides Web and e-mail access for devices integrated with the leading RTOS/TCP stacks. RomPager is a full-function embedded Web server featuring the smallest application memory footprint in the industry. RomMailer and RomPOP allow devices to send/receive e-mail messages and attachments. RomWebClient allows devices to retrieve pages/objects from the Web. RomXML is a small footprint XML parser/framer that allows devices to easily exchange data using XML documents. RomTime allows a device to set time from a central server.

RomUPNP is one of the first small footprint UPnP toolkits for the embedded market and is available for any RTOS and TCP environment including those of our partners: ATI Nucleus, Express Logic ThreadX, Kadak AMX, Lynx, Mentor VRTX, Microsoft Windows CE/95/98/Me/NT/2000, Microware OS-9, Precise MQX, QNX, Treck TCP and WindRiver VxWorks and pSOS.

Allegro Introduces RomCLI and Expands Embedded Internet Software Family
SAN JOSE, CA - September 26, 2000

SAN JOSE, CA - September 26, 2000: Allegro Software Development Corporation announced the availability of its RomCLI Command Line Interface toolkit for embedded devices today at the Embedded Systems Conference in San Jose.

The RomCLI Command Line Interface toolkit is designed to speed the implementation of text-based command line interfaces for embedded devices. The RomCLI toolkit works in conjunction with the RomPager Advanced Web Server to provide unified variable access using common variable access routines.

The RomCLI toolkit contains Telnet services, a Command Line Handler, Parser System and the CliBuilder utility. The Command Line Handler handles command functions that are common to all device implementations such as backspace and left and right arrow functions. The Parser System handles the device specific command tree and provides functionality similar to Cisco IOS-style interfaces. The CliBuilder utility takes an XML description of the command tree and builds a compact internal representation that the Parser System uses to handle the commands.

RomCLI is available for any RTOS and TCP environment including those of our partners: ATI Nucleus, Express Logic ThreadX, Kadak AMX, Lynx, Mentor VRTX, Microsoft Windows CE/95/98/Me/NT/2000, Microware OS-9, Precise MQX, QNX, Treck TCP and WindRiver VxWorks and pSOS.

Embedded Devices Join the XML Revolution
Allegro Introduces RomXML and Expands Embedded Internet Software Family
SAN JOSE, CA - September 27, 1999

SAN JOSE, CA - September 27, 1999:Allegro Software Development Corporation announced the availability of XML for embedded devices today at the Embedded Systems Conference in San Jose. The Allegro RomXML Framing-Parsing tool provides a light-weight translation between pre-defined C-language structures and XML-based representations. RomXML allows an embedded device to move data to other machines in an XML-based standard format without carrying the overhead of general purpose XML tools.

"Embedded device engineers want the power of XML but not the overhead," said Bob Van Andel, President of Allegro Software Development Corp. "RomXML paves the way for an explosion of XML use in the embedded market."

XML is Changing the Way the World Exchanges Data

First, HTML revolutionized the way computers display information to human operators. Now XML is dramatically changing how computers exchange data between themselves. XML, the eXtensible Markup Language, provides a processor-independent way of encoding data for interchange between diverse systems. XML has no pre-defined meanings associated with its tags. Instead, XML is a set of rules for construction of tag-delimited information. Different sets of tag definitions that use XML syntax are being developed for different application environments. Some of the tag sets being defined include vocabularies for chemical engineering, vector graphics, electronic invoicing, weather reports and spreadsheet formulas. A specific XML vocabulary or tag set may be defined by a single organization and published for others. For example, Microsoft has defined a set of XML tags for exchanging spreadsheet and word processing documents with the Office 2000 product suite. In other areas, industry standards groups are jointly defining tag sets for such areas as vector graphics, chemical engineering and astronomy.

"XML is a standard way to exchange data, yet it is flexible enough to handle any application. It is machine independent, so it is a powerful computer-to-computer data exchange mechanism, yet the syntax is so simple it can easily be read by a human," said Van Andel.

Embedded Device XML Applications

A test equipment vendor is using Allegro RomXML to control the software upgrade process from a central Web server. The Allegro RomWebClient is used to retrieve both the software update files and the XML control files from the Web server. Because XML is readable both by man and machine, the control files may easily be prepared with XML tags to tell the download software in the tester which update files are applicable.

A data collection vendor is planning to use RomXML to exchange information between data collecting devices and a master control station. They plan to use XML because it will allow them to easily add future extensions to their data structures and will allow them to easily change technologies in the data collecting devices or the master control station without worrying about the processor type.

Other vendors are adopting RomXML because they plan to publish their tag sets to open up management and reporting information from their embedded devices to their business partners.

RomXML is an asset in all these cases, because it is simple to use in an embedded environment. With a small memory footprint of 10Kb, and a simplified tag definition syntax, RomXML makes adding XML support to embedded devices easy.

Allegro Expands Embedded Internet Software Family with First XML Framer-Parser for Embedded Systems

Allegro Software is a leading OEM supplier of Internet software for the embedded market. With over 500,000 deployed embedded Web servers, Allegro has some of the world's best companies as its customers; companies like American Power Conversion, Casio, Cisco, Hewlett-Packard, Honeywell, Motorola, Nortel, 3Com and Xerox. Allegro's industry-leading software includes Web servers, Web clients, Email (SMTP and POP3) clients, and DNS.

RomXML is the first XML Framer-Parser toolkit for the embedded market and is available for any RTOS and TCP environment including those of our partners: ATI Nucleus, Express Logic ThreadX, ISI pSOS, JMI C-Executive, Kadak AMX, Lynx, Mentor VRTX, Microsoft Windows CE/95/98/NT, Microware OS-9, Precise MQX, QNX, SNMP Research, Treck TCP and WindRiver VxWorks.

Allegro ships RomPOP
Embedded Devices Can Receive Internet Email
BOXBOROUGH, MA - April 27, 1998

BOXBOROUGH, MA - April 27, 1998: Allegro Software Development Corporation expanded its suite of Internet applications for embedded network devices, today with the announcement that it is shipping version 1.0 of RomPOP, its POP3 email client software for embedded network devices. RomPOP allows embedded devices to receive email from any Internet email server.

"Email will be the next stage in the use of Internet applications by embedded network devices," said Bob Van Andel, Allegro president. "Any embedded device can now be fully managed using the most universal Internet application, email. And in combination with Allegro's RomMailer and RomPager products, it enables our customers to easily deliver comprehensive Internet based management solutions for their products. RomPager delivers Web browser access to any network device, while RomPOP and RomMailer provide device management via inbound and outbound email."

Adding RomPOP email capability to an embedded device substantially enhances it. Printers and print servers provide an excellent example. Print jobs can be submitted via email and can be sent as easily to a printer across the country as to one down the hall. Firmware updates can now be made to a printer by sending it an email, or the printer's configuration can be modified via email. The new breed of telephone switches with integrated Internet access is another example. With email support in the hardware they can serve as an integration point between voice and email messaging systems. RomPOP allows users to more effectively manage a large population of devices -a corporation's laser printers for example- using the "store and forward", one-to-many nature of email.

RomPOP receives email from any standard Internet mail POP3 server. It will optionally use APOP security mode and provides the user application UIDL support to obtain message numbers for tracking purposes. RomPOP provides MIME format decoding and attachment decoding including BASE64 support for binary attachments (such as graphics, audio, configuration files, etc.). RomPOP is compliant with the relevant POP3 and MIME RFCs.

Supporting email in an embedded device provides another way to use the Internet for the management of embedded devices. The use of embedded Web servers such as Allegro's RomPager to manage network devices has become a required feature of new products. Using Web browsers to configure and manage devices has become such an accepted approach, that many of the new products being launched at Interop next week will incorporate Web-based management in their initial release.

The Allegro Software Development Corporation is a leading provider of Internet applications and technology.for embedded environments. Other Allegro products include the RomPager Embedded Web Toolkit and the RomMailer Embedded Email Toolkit. Allegro's customers who use the RomPager, RomMailer and RomPOP products include industry leaders such as 3Com, American Power Conversion, Bay Networks, QMS and Xerox. Further information on the RomPager family of products may be found on Allegro's web site at www.allegrosoft.com.

Allegro Software Delivers RomPager 2.0
BOXBOROUGH, MA - January 15, 1998

BOXBOROUGH, MA - January 15, 1998: Continuing its strategy of advancing the state of the art in embedded Web servers, Allegro Software Development Corporation today announced it is shipping version 2.0 of RomPager, its industry leading embedded Web server toolkit. RomPager 2.0 includes HTTP 1.1 support (fully interoperable with Microsoft's recently released Internet Explorer 4.0), external authentication support (for support of RADIUS servers), internationalized status messages (French, German, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish), enhanced user interface tools for HTML page creation, and support for Internet Printing Protocol (IPP) objects.

RomPager release 2.0 is also the foundation for two additional packages. The RomPager Remote Host package provides the ability to store large files, such as images or Java applets, on another Web server and serve them as if they came from the embedded device.

The RomMailer SMTP Client package enables an embedded device to send email status reports to any Internet mail reader. The status reports use the same page creation techniques as RomPager, so they can be sent as either HTML or plain text pages with dynamic information. All of the new browsers will read HTML formatted messages with embedded images, as well as plain text messages.

"This release of RomPager defines the new standard for embedded Web Servers," said Bob Van Andel, president of Allegro Software Development Corporation. "It adds features requested by our customers, while continuing to push the envelope of embedded device management with features like email status reports."

RomPager is the most widely installed web management server for embedded network devices. It is employed in a broad range of devices, including Gigabit Ethernet switches, high performance routers, UPS's, and printers to provide remote configuration and management. This allows the device to be managed using industry standard browsers (Netscape Navigator, Microsoft Internet Explorer, etc.) rather than custom applications or SNMP consoles.

The RomPager Web Server Engine and Toolkit provides complete control of Web page layout, with a small memory footprint for both the server engine and stored web pages, and full compliance with Internet standards. Some of the Allegro customers who have used the RomPager toolkit include 3Com, Acacia Networks, American Power Conversion, Bay Networks, Extreme Networks, Farallon, Foundry, Network Peripherals and Xerox.

The RomPager Web Server Engine and Web Application Toolkit is a product of the Allegro Software Development Corporation. Further information on the family of RomPager products may be found at www.allegrosoft.com.

Allegro Software Development Corporation is a leading provider of embedded Internet applications and technology. The company designs, develops, and markets applications and related software for embedded environments. It also offers consulting services in these same areas.

Allegro ships RomMailer
Embedded Devices Can Send Internet Email
BOXBOROUGH, MA - January 15, 1998

BOXBOROUGH, MA - January 15, 1998: Continuing to deliver on its vision of using standard Internet technologies to manage embedded network devices, Allegro Software Development Corporation today announced it is shipping version 1.0 of RomMailer, its email agent software for embedded network devices. RomMailer allows embedded devices to send email to any SMTP server.

"The release of RomMailer marks the next major step in the use of embedded Internet applications to manage network devices," said Bob Van Andel, president of Allegro Software Development Corporation. "It enables any embedded device to send status reports using the most universal Internet application, email. For example, a network printer using RomMailer could send an email to a system administrator when consumables such as toner or paper needed to be replenished, or to the printer vendor's service organizations when preventive maintenance needs to be scheduled."

"Another use of email "push" technology is to manage networked populations of machines. Individual vending machines have been attached to Web servers, for instance, but a large scale population would benefit from email technology. RomMailer enables a network of vending machines to be managed remotely so that daily reports on each machine's sales and inventory can be sent via email to a central site. This point of sale data can be used to determine the profitability of each machine, the best mix of products for each machine, and when to restock a machine. In addition, status alerts for coin jams, internal temperature, and stock outages can be sent as needed."

"RomMailer, in conjunction with Allegro's RomPager embedded Web server product, enables our customers to easily deliver comprehensive Internet based management solutions with their products," said Van Andel. "RomPager allows interactive management of any network device using a Web browser, while RomMailer provides autonomous email status reports."

RomMailer sends pure text messages, messages with attachments, HTML messages, and HTML with embedded graphics messages (MHTML) and is compliant with all the relevant RFCs. Messages may be constructed with static information and/or dynamic device data. The insertion of dynamic device data into a message uses the same field-proven memory saving technology as Allegro's industry leading RomPager embedded Web server toolkit.

Allegro Software Announces Java for Device Management
BOXBOROUGH, MA - July 7, 1997

BOXBOROUGH, MA - July 7, 1997: Allegro Software has added to its widely used RomPager embedded Web server OEM software family. The RomPager Java Graphlets Toolkit is a set of externally configurable Java applets that can be used to display performance graphs and other dynamic information in a visually superior manner to plain HTML. The toolkit comes with the complete Java source code, although in most cases the applets can be used without changing a line of source code simply by modifying the loading parameters.

The six dynamically configurable RomPager Graphlets in the toolkit are: a Progress Bar (for showing download/upload performance), a Single Line Performance Graph (variable over time), a Single Bar Performance Chart (variable over time), a Multiple Line Performance Graph (multiple variables over time), a Multiple Bar Chart and a Performance Dial (speedometer).

"Working with Allegro means that engineering groups can provide their users the richest set of management tools available with the minimum of software development manpower. The RomPager Java Graphlet Toolkit is another example of easily integrated OEM software which can give device manufacturers a stronger position in the marketplace," said Bob Van Andel, president of Allegro Software.

The RomPager Java Graphlets Toolkit license fee is $5,000 (or $3,500 if purchased with the RomPager Web Server.) This license includes the full Java source code, documentation, compiled byte codes as well as the RomPager internal format.

Allegro Software Development Corporation is the provider of the RomPager embedded web server toolkit, the most widely used OEM solution on the market today. Further information on the RomPager family of products may be found at www.allegrosoft.com.

Allegro Software Combines Web-Based Management with Direct SNMP Access
BOXBOROUGH, MA - May 5, 1997

BOXBOROUGH, MA - May 5, 1997: Web based management just took another major step forward with the announcement that RomPager(TM), Allegro Software's embedded web server OEM software toolkit now links directly to the SNMP Research International EMANATE(TM) SNMP Agent. Network product manufacturers can now design embedded web servers with direct access to the same SNMP MIB variables that work with traditional network management console software.

RomPager is a popular embedded web management server for network switches, routers, UPS devices and networked printers. The RomPager toolkit allows complete flexiblity of page layout, while providing low memory usage in both the server code and the stored web pages. Until now, access to MIB variables stored in the device memories was done with routines that ran in parallel to the SNMP Agent access routines. Now, a design engineer can provide the MIB Object ID directly to RomPager, and it will access the MIB variable using the widely used EMANATE SNMP Agent routines.

"The ubiquity of the Web makes it an ideal display vehicle for management information. Publishing SNMP data on a Web page is an effective, easy and affordable way to disseminate information to people who need it." said Bob Van Andel, president of Allegro Software Development Corporation. "Together with SNMP Research, we have developed a key feature that our customers have been asking for. Web based access of SNMP information just got a whole lot easier."

"Sometimes users want to use both SNMP and the Web to manage their devices," said Dr. Jeffrey Case, founder of SNMP Research International. "They use SNMP for enterprise wide management, but they also want Web-based management capability. The integration of the RomPager toolkit with SNMP Research's SNMP technology makes an effective marriage. This combination lets our users get to market quickly with better standards compliance."

Allegro Software Development Corporation is the provider of the RomPager embedded web server toolkit, the most widely used OEM solution in the market today. Further information on RomPager may be found at www.allegrosoft.com.

SNMP Research International is a leading provider of SNMP technology to the OEM community and others. They offer a full family of management products and services for the computer and communications industries. Further info on SNMP Research may be found at www.snmp.com.

Attendees at the Network+Interop show in Las Vegas saw RomPager embedded in the SNMP Research LATIN (Legacy Adapter to Internet) LT-301 hardware at the SNMP Research booth.