HiT Software Announces Ritmo v.5 for .NET Integration Between IBM®DB2 and Visual Studio 2010

HiT Software®, Inc., a leading provider of Data Integration and Change Data Capture products for heterogeneous database environments, today announced Ritmo v.5, the newest version of its .NET Provider product family that enables .NET Framework-based applications and developers to easily access data on IBM®DB2 databases. Ritmo/i v.5 is available for IBM i systems and Ritmo/DB2 is available for IBM DB2 (Linux, UNIX, Windows and mainframe). Ritmo’s Developer Editions now support Microsoft® Visual Studio 2010. Ritmo/DB2 v.5 now supports Entity Framework.

New Product Features Include:

• Full integration with Visual Studio 2010 (Developer Editions), and backward compatibility with previous versions of Visual Studio
• Support for .NET Framework 4.0
• Improved support for CCSID override features in Ritmo/i
• Enhanced support for SQL syntax, catalog queries and IBM i numeric-to-decimal datatype conversion
• Ability to manage trace file size
• Support for Entity Framework (Ritmo/DB2 v.5 only)

“Ritmo continues to lead the market in features that streamline and optimize the ability to connect DB2 data to .NET based applications,” said Giacomo Lorenzin, Managing Director, HiT Software. “Ritmo is the optimal solution for developers who rely on a Visual Studio development environment, and require reliability and ease-of-use from their .NET Provider.”

Ritmo/i v.5 is available now and Ritmo/DB2 v.5 (DB2 LUW and mainframe) will be available in August 2011. Ritmo products are available for free trial at www.hitsw.com.

About HiT Software

HiT Software, Inc., a BackOffice Associates, LLC Company, is a leader in Change Data Capture and Data Integration products for enterprises with a heterogeneous database environment. HiT Software’s standards-based products provide quick access to critical data and offer programming-free data integration across enterprise systems, including DBMoto® for real-time, bi-directional replication between all major databases; Allora for bi-directional transformations between XML and all major databases; and application connectivity to IBM® DB2® databases via .NET, OLE DB, ODBC and JDBC standards. Founded in 1994 in San Jose, California, HiT Software is relied upon by thousands of global organizations in most vertical markets. For details, visit www.hitsw.com

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