Droplets User Interface Server Demonstrates High Performance on the Intel® Xeon™ Microprocessor at IBM developerWorks Live Event

NEW YORK, May 6, 2002 - Droplets, Inc. will be demonstrating it's User Interface Server™ 2.2 software application platform optimized for the Intel® Xeon™ processor and it's Hyper-Threading Technology at the Intel booth at IBM developerWorks Live.

Droplets provides superior user interface functionality and simplified deployment by enabling intelligent applications to be administered from a central server, over thin bandwidth connections, and accessed from a desktop icon, wireless device or portal Web top. Droplets-based applications feature the end-user experience and productivity advantages of local software, while maintaining all application code centrally, and using 1/10th the bandwidth of HTML-based applications.

Louis Franco, chief architect with Droplets, Inc. said, "We recompiled our server and saw a 30% increase in throughput performance. Intel's Hyper-Threading Technology is a very elegant and efficient way to squeeze more power out of a single server CPU."

The Intel Xeon processor family for both dual and multi-processor servers features Hyper-Threading Technology, which allows multithreaded operating systems and applications to view a single physical processor as if it were two logical processors, significantly decreasing server response time, and increasing transactions and workload performance.

"Optimizing the Droplets User Interface Server for the Intel® Xeon™ processor demonstrates the power and flexibility of Intel's Hyper-Threading Technology," said Melissa Laird, director of Intel Developer Services. "We are pleased to have Droplets participate in the Intel booth at the IBM developerWorks Live event, as part of Intel's Early Access Program exhibit."

About Droplets
Founded in May 2000 and headquartered in New York City, Droplets, Inc. provides an application platform and standards-based Java and C++ development tools for deploying highly interactive, real-time applications. The Droplets platform provides the full GUI capabilities of fat client software, directly from the desktop or through a Web browser, while maintaining all application code on your servers. Droplets provides significant bandwidth savings over Web-based applications, while increasing end-user productivity, customer intimacy and partner loyalty. Strategic partners include Borland, PricewaterhouseCoopers, and Sun Microsystems. Visit www.droplets.com.

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