BANGALORE, India--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 6, 2006--Cranes Software International a global scientific & engineering products and solutions provider and one of the world leaders in CAE (Computer Aided Engineering) technologies today announced the availability of NISA V14.0 Finite Element Analysis Software Suite for the Linux Operating System.

NISA finite element analysis software is one of the most advanced engineering analysis tool available for the Automotive, Aerospace, Energy & Power and Civil engineering industry. Users of NISA rely on its capabilities in; Stress Analysis, Seismic Analysis, Vibration Analysis, Composite Material Analysis, Fatigue Analysis, Thermal Analysis, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Electromagnetic Analysis and Civil Structure Analysis. Other features being, a completely integrated pre-post processing environment and seamless interoperability with leading commercial CAD software's.

Cost-efficient Linux systems are becoming commonplace in worldwide research and educational facilities. As the world's leading open source operating system, Linux offers customers an enterprise class operating environment at a low cost of ownership. With NISA for Linux, users can take advantage of the excellent performance of the Linux environment and the superior scalability and reliability required for high-end engineering computation. Enterprise level customers can handle tasks like large engineering simulations with ease and can rely on a multiple-user support platform to share development efforts early in the process of product development.

"It is our constant endeavor to provide customers with industry leading software solutions that are compatible with a variety of operating systems. With this new availability enterprise users can work with an open architecture and complete their tasks in an efficient and cost-effective manner," commented Dr. Ramdass Keshavamurthy VP-Product Development.

"With Engineering Services market growing at the rate of 12.3 % and a sizeable portion of this using FEA tools with Linux as its operating system, it is our belief that a Linux variant of NISA fits exactly into the current market needs. We hope, with this launch we have met the immediate need of our users who are currently at the threshold of switching over to Linux operating system. And address an emerging Linux segment within the FEA tools market," commented Mr. Pradeep Kumar, Senior Vice President.

About Cranes Software International Ltd. (CSIL)

Cranes Software is a global scientific & engineering products and solutions provider. The Company's business interests straddle products, services, R&D in future technologies, training and high-end consultancy for engineers and scientist worldwide. Focused on the scientific and engineering community, Cranes Software has addressed the needs of a variety of customer groups ranging from large MNCs to the US armed forces for over a decade.

Today, Cranes Software has its presence in 33 countries across the world and has a customer base of more than 360,000. Cranes Software also offers world-renowned solutions from reputed principals such as The Mathworks, Mentor Graphics, Texas Instruments and IBM through product alliances.

With a mission statement to provide its customers the best in scientific technology and to enable its customers to define new limits, Cranes Software is setting new standards in the scientific and engineering field.

Certain statements in this release concerning our growth prospects are forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements are subject to certain risks and uncertainties, including government actions; local political or economic developments; technological risks; risks inherent in the Company's growth strategy; dependence on certain clients; dependence on availability of technical consultants and other factors that could cause our actual results to differ materially from those contemplated by the relevant forward looking statements. The Company undertakes no obligation to publicly update these forward-looking statements to reflect subsequent events or circumstances.

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