TASKING ANNOUNCES SCOTT TAITEL AS CHIEF OPERATIONS OFFICER

TASKING Strengthens Management Team

Dedham, Mass. — August 2 1999 — TASKING Inc., today announced it has appointed Scott Taitel as Chief Operating Officer of TASKING's Worldwide Operations and President of TASKING US. TASKING delivers embedded software development solutions to the top 500 companies that use embedded microprocessor, microcontrollers and DSPs in their products. Taitel will drive TASKING's strategy to continue being the top solutions supplier by providing the best easy to use tools and the most responsive and technically capable customer services.

"Scott brings a wealth of knowledge about the embedded market to the position." said Frank Despomare Chairman of TASKING. "His expertise will be invaluable as we strengthen our position in the embedded market by adding tools to our current solutions and developing additional strategic partners in the Internet and DSP markets."

"TASKING's Embedded Development Environment EDE, is the leading GUI based integrated tool environment because it is easy to use. Its open architecture provides hooks for 3rd party tools such as RTOSs and emulators." said Taitel. "I am looking forward to leveraging TASKING's strength to provide customers with the solutions that they need to increase their productivity and reduce their time to market."

Scott Taitel joins TASKING with an extensive background in both the embedded systems industry and the management of growing companies. Scott most recently served as Vice President of Administration of ACX, an Inc. 500 Company. Prior to that position, Taitel was Vice President of Intermetrics Microsystems Software, Inc., a leading supplier of development tools for the embedded systems industry that was acquired by TASKING in 1996. He holds a BA from Syracuse University and an MBA from Northeastern University where he has been a member of the Business School's part-time faculty for over ten years.

About TASKING, Inc.
TASKING is a developer and supplier of integrated software development tools for the embedded systems market and supports a wide range of CISC, RISC, microcontroller and DSP semiconductor technologies in the Telecommunications, Data Communications Automotive, Consumer Electronics and Office Automation markets. TASKING's knowledge of embedded systems results from the merger of three companies BSO, Intermetrics Microsystems and TASKING which are now embedded together to make their customers more successful. The three companies bring over 20 years of experience each, starting in 1974 with BSO pioneering the concept of cross development. Headquartered in Dedham, Mass., TASKING has offices worldwide, located in the Netherlands, Germany, Italy, Japan and UK. For more information about TASKING visit our web site at www.tasking.com.

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