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ITKO Wins "SD Times 100" Honors for Third Consecutive Year

Top SOA testing provider recognized as leader in the SOA testing space

Dallas, TX, June 1 2007 - ITKO, Inc., a provider of complete testing solutions for SOA (Service-Oriented Architecture) software, has been named to the "SD Times 100" list. The 5th annual "SD Times 100," published in the June 1, 2007 issue of BZ Media's SD Times, recognizes leaders and innovators across the software development industry.

ITKO is a winner in the "Test and QA" category. In its coverage of the winners, SD Times recognized ITKO for its breadth and depth of testing expertise by noting "In the SOA-test arena, ITKO was out front with the concept of testing for business continuity. The company continues to push the limits of availability with its complete collaboration solution."

Lifecycle Quality is a key aspect of SOA Governance, and SOA Testing is important at every stage of adoption to ensure that the resulting services, and their underlying implementation layers, can be trusted for business purposes. ITKO's LISA software tests every layer of SOA applications at design time, build time and runtime.

"The winners of this year's SD Times 100 awards have demonstrated their leadership in shaping the software development industry," said David Rubinstein, Editor-in-Chief of SD Times. "We took into account each nominee's products and services, its reputation among development managers, and the new ideas it brought out. These select individuals and organizations are the ones we¹ve identified as helping to move the art of development forward."

"We are very proud to receive this recognition for the third year in a row," said Jim Mackay, CMO of ITKO. "We look forward to another year of advancement and innovation on the SOA Testing and QA front."

About ITKO, a CA Technologies company

ITKO, a CA Technologies company, optimizes composite application lifecycles. Our CA LISA virtualization and validation software increases the agility of developing and delivering complex and cloud-based applications to market faster, while shifting quality left to eliminate costly constraints and defects in an environment of constant change. ITKO solutions eliminate software dependences, decrease release times, and increase the reliability of composite applications that leverage cloud computing, SOA, BPM, integration suites and ESBs. ITKO's global customers include 5 of the top 6 Fortune 500 commercial banks, 5 of the top 6 Fortune 500 telecommunications firms as well as leading firms in insurance, travel, retail, utilities and government agencies. For more information, visit http://www.ITKO.com.

ITKO Press Contact: Jason English - news@ITKO.com -- 1-214-764-9318

About BZ Media

BZ Media LLC (www.bzmedia.com) is a New York-based media company combining the best of print and Internet publishing with industry-leading technical conferences and expositions.

BZ Media's SD Times (www.sdtimes.com) is the twice-monthly newspaper of record for the software development industry. SD Times reaches more than 60,000 subscribers in 131 countries.

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