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MAYNARD, Mass., Nov. 12, 2008 – Stratus Technologies, the Availability Company®, and
INETCO Systems Limited, a leading provider of business transaction intelligence solutions for
managing the performance of real-time applications, jointly announced today that Stratus will
resell the INETCO Insight and BankLink software products to financial institutions, service
providers, transaction processors, retailers, entertainment groups, healthcare organizations, and
other transaction-oriented industries.
Financial services/banking is Stratus’ largest served industry for continuous-availability IT
solutions. The reseller agreement with INETCO allows Stratus to provide both its legacy and its
industry-standard x86 platform customers and prospects with high-value software solutions:
• INETCO Insight captures end-to-end transaction flows between customer-facing
applications and back-end hosts, providing unique visibility and intelligence into the
performance of real-time applications and complex network infrastructures. Real-time
monitoring, alerting and historical trending capabilities help institutions mitigate service
risk, guarantee the availability of terminals, and streamline troubleshooting procedures by
quickly isolating application issues impacting business critical transactions, revenue
streams, and the end customer experience. INETCO Insight’s patents-pending messageoriented
architecture delivers the performance you need to monitor a variety of TCP/IP
based financial and custom transaction types, including ISO 8583, Visa 2, HTTP or
XML-based protocols.
• INETCO BankLink converts legacy protocols to TCP/IP, enabling simple, cost-effective
migration from the Stratus Continuum to the Stratus V Series platform. This allows
customers to reduce operating costs, take advantage of new functionality and fault
tolerance performance available on the V Series platform, and extend the life of existing
ATMs, POS terminals, bank hosts, and payment networks.
According to Neil Cook, director of EFT technology for Fidelity National Information Services,
“INETCO Insight’s real-time monitoring and threshold alerting capabilities provide our network

operations and ATM support teams the ability to be proactive and not reactive to our client base.
We don’t have to interrogate system or application error logs to determine if we are experiencing
failure points. The operations support agents are immediately aware of when denial thresholds
are reaching an unacceptable level, and can begin problem determination efforts with internal
support areas and/or other networks.”
Long-time Stratus customer Telered, one of Panama’s largest financial services providers, uses
BankLink to help keep up with growth in transaction volumes, as well as advancements in
technology, without giving up the exceptional reliability of its application software.
In addition to selling INETCO products directly to end users, Stratus will also provide level-one
product support, with the software company responsible for levels two and three.
“This reseller agreement strengthens and expands the ISV relationship that the two companies
announced at last year’s BAI Retail Delivery Conference and, more importantly, places
exceptional business value in the hands of our customers,” said Martin Mulvey, Stratus director
of worldwide Continuum sales.
“We are excited to work closely with Stratus to help their customers optimize business critical,
real-time applications more efficiently and cost effectively,” said Greg Ammirati, EVP of sales
for INETCO.
Stratus and INETCO will be demonstrating their technologies at the BAI Retail and Delivery
Conference and Expo taking place at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Florida,
November 18-20th. Booth #909.
About INETCO Systems Limited
INETCO creates business transaction intelligence, protocol connectivity, and communications
gateway solutions to help companies manage the performance of various EFT applications such
as leased line and dial-up ATM machines, POS terminals, and web-based applications. A
recognized technology leader in the TCP/IP payment transactions space for over 20 years,
INETCO products are currently deployed within financial, transaction processing, retail, and
telecommunications environments in 50+ countries, worldwide. www.inetco.com

About Stratus Technologies
Stratus Technologies focuses exclusively on helping its customers keep critical business
operations online without interruption. Business continuity requires resiliency and superior
availability throughout the IT infrastructure, including virtual environments. Stratus delivers a
range of solutions that includes software-based high availability, fault-tolerant servers,
availability consulting and assessment, and remote systems management services. Based on its 28
years of expertise in product and services technology for total availability, Stratus is a trusted
solutions provider to customers in manufacturing, health care, financial services, public safety,
transportation & logistics, and other industries. For more information, visit www.stratus.com.
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© 2008 Stratus Technologies Bermuda Ltd. All rights reserved.
Stratus is a registered trademark of Stratus Technologies Bermuda Ltd. The Stratus Technologies
logo is a trademark of Stratus Technologies Bermuda Ltd. INETCO and INETCO Insight are
trademarks of INETCO Systems Ltd. All other marks are the property of their respective owners.
For more information, contact:
Ken Donoghue
Stratus Technologies
978-461-7269
ken.donoghue@stratus.com
Dan Dyer
Tier 1 Public Relations for INETCO Systems Ltd.
513-478-7818
ddyer@tier1pr.com
www.tier1pr.com