KPIT:40% efficiency increase in design of devlpmt tools

New Delhi, October 12, 2006: KPIT Cummins Infosystems Ltd, a leader in engineering solutions for the Semiconductor and Automotive Industry, has announced today that it is joining the Eclipse community as an Add-In Provider member. With this the company looks forward to broaden the development and deployment of the development tools base for its customers.

The use of Eclipse platform will reduce the development time of the software products by almost 40%. This announcement indicates KPIT's seriousness in becoming the first company to design development components in India. The Eclipse platform is slated to become the de facto standard of IDE tools (Integrated Development Environment, a computer program that assists programmers to develop software) development. KPIT has developed more than 20 plug-in components for the semiconductor industry based on the Eclipse platform. Semiconductor solutions contribute as much as 10% of KPIT's total revenues as of now.

"We see this membership as a great opportunity for collaborating with the Eclipse community and as a major thrust in our journey of designing development tools for embedded developers worldwide. The Development Tools team within Semiconductor Solutions Group of our organization has already released Eclipse-based IDE for embedded developers targeted for a microcontroller family. We plan to use Eclipse in our future strategic products." said Praveen Acharya, Vice-President, ATS-Semiconductor Solutions Group, KPIT Cummins Infosystems Ltd.

Mike Milinkovich, Executive Director of the Eclipse Foundation has quoted, "We welcome KPIT Cummins as a full member of the Eclipse Add-In-Provider and Eclipse Membership At Large communities, a first for an Indian company. We acknowledge that Development Tools are a significant part of KPIT Cummins' services for the semiconductor industry and expect the tools built on Eclipse platform to delight its customers."

Eclipse Foundation is an independent not-for-profit consortium of software industry vendors. Many notable software tool vendors have embraced Eclipse platform as a future framework for their IDE.

About KPIT Cummins:

KPIT Cummins Infosystems Limited is the Technology consulting & engineering partner of first choice for its customers across the globe. With a major presence in IT for Manufacturing, Advanced Technology Solutions (Automotive and Semiconductor Solutions) and Diversified Financial Services verticals, the company has grown at a fast pace of above 65% CAGR over the past three years. KPIT endeavors to be a leader in 3rd party solutions & services for Automotive Electronics & Semiconductor industries.

Citigroup-IMA recently identified KPIT Cummins among the top 100 transitioning medium enterprises in India (June' 06). International Association of Outsourcing Professionals has ranked KPIT Cummins, 8th among the 35 rising stars in global outsourcing (Feb'06).

For more details, please visit www.kpitcummins.com

About Eclipse Foundation:

The Eclipse Foundation is a not-for-profit corporation formed to advance the creation, evolution, promotion, and support of the Eclipse Platform and to cultivate both an open source community and an ecosystem of complementary products, capabilities, and services. Eclipse is an open source community whose projects are focused on providing a vendor-neutral open development platform and application frameworks for building software.

For more details, please visit www.eclipse.org