Scottsdale, Arizona

LinkRight Tracker Now Available from First EDA, Ltd.
July 26, 2004

First EDA Ltd., a leading distributor of EDA tools in the United Kingdom and Ireland, will begin immediate sales and marketing of LinkRight Software's Tracker product. LinkRight Tracker is the first tool to automate the process of analyzing/purchasing of software. LinkRight Tracker utilizes data acquired from the FLEXnet™ Publisher licensing system to provide Software Investment Planning (SIP). SIP takes trend information and usage patterns and makes intelligent decisions about the quantity of software that an enterprise should purchase. In the EDA arena, LinkRight Tracker is ready to work with products from Synopsys, Cadence, Mentor and others. In the CAD arena, LinkRight Tracker works with CATIA, AutoCAD and others.

"We are very pleased to be working with First EDA who will expose LinkRight to an exciting number of companies and opportunities. In the short period of time our organizations have worked together, I have found it a pleasure to work with First EDA. My thanks to Julian Lonsdale and his team," said Rodney Chew, President of LinkRight Software, LLC.

"We are always looking to offer unique solutions to our customers and LinkRight Tracker certainly falls into this category," commented Julian Lonsdale, Sales Director of First EDA Ltd. "Increasingly our customers' software investments are made without the aid of qualified usage and cost statistics. LinkRight Tracker changes all that, providing an effective and accessible environment that allows informed decisions to be made on software spend."

LinkRight Software, LLC, a leading provider of user authentication and software use tracking tools offers LinkRight Tracker, the first commercial tool to provide product level tracking, analysis and forecasting for Macrovision FLEXnet™ Publisher licensed products. LinkRight Software, LLC is a privately held corporation located in Scottsdale, Arizona.

For information about LinkRight Tracker or other products available from LinkRight Software, LLC, inquiries may be made via email at info@linkright.biz or by phone at 480-596-0096.

First EDA Ltd specialize in the distribution and support of leading-edge EDA solutions for designers involved in the specification, implementation and verification of custom silicon devices. Staffed by experienced EDA management and engineers, First EDA's goal is to provide a responsive and considered service that provides timely and effective solutions to the device design challenge.

For further information, please visit the First EDA web site at www.firsteda.com, e-mail info@firsteda.com or call +44 (1295) 201250.

FLEXnet™ Publisher and SAMsuite™ are trademarks of the Macrovision corporation. For more information regarding FLEXnet™ Publisher, visit www.macrovision.com.

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