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4 Jul 2006 12:40

Gresham Computing PLC04 July 2006 For immediate release 4 July 2006 Gresham Computing plc ("Gresham" or the "Company") SCP confirmed as Shortlist Candidate Gresham is delighted to announce the publication of an independent buyer's guidereport confirming Gresham's Storage Consolidation Platform ("SCP") as one of thetop 2 enterprise class software solutions in the global disk-to-disk market andone that should be on every enterprise storage buyer's shortlist. The report, by Diogenes and published recently by SearchStorage.com, helps ITbuyers differentiate between products and selects the best candidate for theirown situation. 13 of the top products were compared under lab tests that probedease-of-use, manageability, features/functions and technical support systems.Gresham's SCP technology scored 281/2 out of 30 across these tests ranking itamongst the only 3 Shortlist Candidates identified in the report, and scoring itsome distance ahead of several household names in the storage market such asNeartek, Overland, FalconStore and Fujitsu-Siemens. Diogenes Analytical Laboratories Inc is widely regarded as an independent expertvoice in the global enterprise storage market and was founded by IT industryveterans with the goal of delivering valuable, unbiased, technically-basedtechnology analysis. The report is published on SearchStorage.com, 'The Web'sbest storage-specific information resource for enterprise IT professionals'. Andrew Walton-Green, Chief Executive Officer of Gresham, commented: "I am delighted to report that Gresham has been so highly ranked in thisindependent test of storage solutions in the disk-to-disk market. SCP offersmore than just tape virtualisation because it also offers a completeenterprise-tape management platform. With SCP, users can monitor the operationsof all virtual and real resources in their entire tape storage environment fromone location. It consolidates management of all of the tape resources regardlessof the variety of operating systems, backup applications and tape devices inthat environment. This is something that we believe few competitors can reallyoffer. Putting it simply, tape is our heritage and as many CTOs are keen topoint out, whilst disk is important, for the foreseeable future tape continuesto play a critical role in enterprise storage management. Gresham has been providing enterprise class storage software to a large numberof the world's largest corporates for many years. If you have a credit card orcar keys in your pocket then it is highly likely that Gresham software providesa storage solution to the associated brand name. The Gresham storage team has yet again delivered first class technology thatsolves enterprise level issues in the global storage market. The resultannounced today again validates our position as experts in the storage market.As the report says, if you are thinking of procuring a disk-to-disk solution inthe near future then you had better place Gresham firmly on your shortlist." - Ends - For further information, please contact: Gresham Computing plc +44 (0)20 7653 0200 Andrew Walton-Green Financial Dynamics +44 (0)207 831 3113 James Melville-Ross This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock Exchange