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Tarari Inc., the award-winning acceleration company, announced today that it will integrate its acceleration technology with Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003 and the upcoming Visual Studio "Whidbey" release. Tarari enables developers to accelerate and offload compute-intensive algorithms to Tarari Processors, resulting in dramatic performance gains for enterprise and other critical applications. Tarari, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, is one of the few partners delivering hardware certified for both Microsoft Windows XP and Microsoft Windows Server 2003. Integration with Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003 and Visual Studio "Whidbey" will extend application acceleration to the vast number of Microsoft Visual Studio developers, enabling them to bring their accelerated solutions to market quickly. Developers using Visual Studio .NET 2003 will reap huge productivity gains and facilitate significant application acceleration via Tarari technology and products. Both Tarari and members of the Tarari Developer Program will create commonly used acceleration services, for example encryption or compression acceleration, that application developers can simply "plug" into their code. "Tarari will build upon the Visual Studio .NET 2003 foundation to deliver acceleration solutions to the enterprise and other commercial markets where performance is critical," said Randy Smerik, president and CEO of Tarari Inc. "We are looking to Visual Studio 'Whidbey' to further streamline the entire development process, enabling application developers to quickly accelerate, and deploy their solutions." "The integration of Tarari processors with Visual Studio 'Whidbey' will further enable developers to create enterprise-wide applications," said David Lazar, director of the Developer and Platform Evangelism Division at Microsoft Corp. "Our mutual customers will be at the forefront of accelerating applications across a variety of industries, from entertainment to biotechnology to national security."