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This integrationenables organizations with heterogeneous development environments tobring teams working in the Visual Studio IDE the collaboration,productivity and traceability advantages offered by unified ALM.Velocity, compliance and risk mitigation”This integration brings Microsoft development teams into the enterpriseclass of ALM,” says Colin Doyle, Product Manager at MKS. “Teams using theVisual Studio IDE can now move beyond basic version control and other’low level’ integrations and start leveraging the power of a unified ALMsolution. MKS goes beyond most other integrated solutions by using theVisual Studio Software Development Kit (as opposed to the Source CodeControl Interface (MSSCCI)), which results in a deeper level ofintegration and more functionality exposed within the IDE. In practicalterms, this can mean automation of common tasks so that developers canspend their time on actual development rather than on trying to manageand adhere to policies in a separate configuration management system.Ultimately, all of this integration and automation translates into morerapid development cycles, improved compliance and mitigation of the risksassociated with errors and rework.”Conflict avoidance rather than conflict resolutionMKS Integrity enables developers in the Visual Studio IDE to practice’safe development’ by deciphering developer activity within the IDE andautomatically performing the appropriate ALM operations (for instance,files under source control are automatically locked when a user startsediting the file). With full support for MKS Integrity non-exclusivelocks, the development team can see in-progress change, without blockingothers from working on the same solution. MKS Integrity change packagesupport provides superior task-oriented change management abilitieswithin Visual Studio. The net result is that developers can proactivelyidentify and avoid potential conflicts rather than spending time andeffort to resolve conflicts.Getting it done, faster, better and with less cost and effortTask-oriented Work-In-Progress and tightly integrated task managementviews help accelerate development by streamlining workflow.

Users caneasily find their assigned tasks, view or edit tasks, and create newtasks. MKS Integrity provides improved support for refactoring operationsperformed within Visual Studio (moves and renames are recorded as such,rather than as adds and drops), which helps enhance code quality withoutsacrificing transparency.Transforming Solutions into Reusable IPMKS creates a framework for the re-use of solutions in the IDE withflexible support for solution binding (putting Visual Studio solutionsunder source control). An intuitive solution-sharing wizard connected toa solution registry maintained on the MKS Integrity server allows usersto query the MKS Integrity server for appropriate solutions and theneasily import them. Parallel development of solutions is supported withintuitive gestures to branch solutions and to select solutions for importby branch; the same mechanism also fully supports component re-use(projects that were put under source control as part of one solution canbe shared into other solutions).

With its flagshipproduct, MKS Integrity, MKS offers support for all software developmentactivities through a single enterprise application, resulting in betterglobal collaboration and higher productivity. MKS supports customersworldwide with offices across North America, Europe and Asia. For moreinformation about MKS, visit our Web site at http:// MKS IntegrityMKS Integrity is an enterprise application lifecycle management platformthat coordinates and manages all activities and artifacts associated withsoftware development including Requirements Management, System Design,Software Configuration Management, Change Management, Test Management,Defect Management, Release Management and Portfolio Management for custombuilt and packaged applications.MKS Integrity provides consistent capabilities across all disciplines ofthe application lifecycle by defining hierarchies, relationships andchange management processes for numerous user defined applicationartifacts. Unlike other ALM offerings that have been assembled byacquisition, our unified platform provides enterprise class scalabilityand multi-platform capability to support large scale software reuseinitiatives, workflow-based collaboration and rich mining of applicationactivity data to deliver higher team productivity, visibility andcompliance for software engineering and IT organizations.Copyright Copyright 2009 MKS Inc MKS and MKS Integrity are trademarks ofMKS Inc. All other trademarks mentioned in this release are the propertyof their respective owners.This news release contains forward-looking statements that involve risksand uncertainties, which may cause actual results to differ materiallyfrom the statements made. When used in this document, the words “may”,”would”, “could”, “will”, “intend”, “plan”, “anticipate”, “believe”,”estimate”, “expect” and similar expressions are intended to identifyforward-looking statements.

Such statements reflect the Company’s currentviews with respect to future events and are subject to such risks anduncertainties. Many factors could cause our actual results to differmaterially from the statements made including those factors detailed fromtime to time in filings made by the Company with Canadian securitiesregulatory authorities. Should one or more of these risks oruncertainties materialize, or should assumptions underlying the forwardlooking statements prove incorrect, actual results may vary materiallyfrom those described herein as intended, planned, anticipated orexpected. Although the Company believes the expectations represented bysuch forward looking statements are reasonable, there can be no assurancethat those expectations will prove to be correct.