Value-Added Software Services Company Invited to Participate in Microsoft Launch of SQL Server 2005, Visual Studio 2005, and BizTalk Server 2006.

Shanghai, China. — December 1, 2005, Augmentum, Inc., a leading provider of value-added software services in China, the US, and India, today announced the launch of their Augmentation Services™ for the Microsoft Platform. These services, for software development and test, as well as solutions deployment have been developed by Augmentum and successfully delivered to multiple enterprise customers over the past two years. Augmentum also announced that they will be participating in Microsoft's launch of SQL Server 2005, Visual Studio 2005, and BizTalk Server 2006 as a Gold Sponsor.

"Our Augmentation Services™ for the Microsoft Platform allow our customers to take advantage of Microsoft's innovations", said Wayne Hom, Augmentum's CTO. "Microsoft has always set the bar in its relentless attention to the user experience for both developers and end-users. Augmentum helps map the key Microsoft features and product sets to our customers' business needs so they can maximally leverage the innovations and capabilities already built by Microsoft. We also provide value by optimizing the integration of Microsoft components - because we have a very long history of Microsoft expertise in the front end and the back end."

Augmentum will be unveiling these value-added software services in their booth at the launch events in Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou December, 2nd, 8th, and 16th. http://www.microsoft.com/china/MSDN/Launch2005/index.aspx

About Augmentum
Augmentum offers value-added software development services to its customers worldwide. We augment our clients' teams as their extension, utilizing leading edge development tools and technologies, as well as proven processes, to create commercial-quality software. Our management has decades of collective experience outsourcing commercial software and solutions. Augmentum, Inc. is headquartered in Shanghai, China and Foster City, California. We have grown to over 450 people worldwide in two years since our founding, and won the Red Herring Asia Top 100 award in 2005. For more information, please visit www.augmentum.com or call (650) 578-9221.

Contacts:
China: Belinda Qin
011.86.21.5131.4277 ext. 431
belinda.qin@augmentum.com

USA: Lisa Carnochan
650.578.9221 ext. 104
lisa.carnochan@augmentum.com