Sydney, September 9, 2010 – Fluke Calibration, a global leader in calibration instrumentation and software, has introduced the latest release of Fluke MET/CAL® Plus Calibration Management Software, Version 7.3.

In this latest release, MET/CAL calibration software supports the Microsoft Windows® Vista operating system, Windows 7 operating system and Windows Server 2008, including the 64-bit variants.

In addition, technicians can now address an expanded workload that includes the newest Fluke products, the Fluke 6105A Electrical Power Standard, Fluke 6100B Electrical Power Standard, Fluke 6100A/6100B/6105A Energy Counting Option, and Fluke 5080A Multi-Product Calibrator. Other instruments supported with this release are the Clarke-Hess 8100 Transconductance Amplifier and Agilent Economy Spectrum Analyzer (ESA) Series.

Crystal Reports, a powerful reporting tool supplied with MET/CAL Plus software, has been upgraded to the newest version. Crystal Reports 2008 helps users design and deliver reports via the Internet or embedded in enterprise applications. Its improved report designer enables users to create professional-looking interactive reports that integrate Flash, cross-tabs, customised pages sizes, and more. Built-in barcode support lets users create barcodes easily, with no coding required. Crystal Reports runs faster for enhanced productivity and enables multilingual reporting.

MET/CAL Plus calibration software Version 7.3 includes several improvements to MET/TRACK®, a powerful calibration asset management system. The application now supports Windows XP, Vista, 7, 2003 and 2008, including 32-bit and 64-bit platforms. A new import tool makes it easier than ever to import data into MET/TRACK software.

For more information on Fluke MET/CAL® Plus Calibration Management Software, Version 7.3 and other calibration software products from Fluke Calibration, contact Dennis Juniper at Fluke Australia, Locked Box 5004, Baulkham Hills, NSW 2153, call (03) 9633-0444, fax (03) 9012-4107, or e-mail dennis.juniper@fluke.com. Visit Fluke’s web site at http://www.fluke.com.au.

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About Fluke Calibration

Fluke Calibration is a leader in precision calibration instrumentation and software for electrical, temperature, pressure, flow, and RF measurements. Calibration products from Fluke Calibration are found in calibration facilities around the world, including National Metrology Institutes, that demand the highest levels of performance and reliability, backed by state of the art metrology and uncompromising support. They are relied on by quality engineers, calibration technicians, and metrologists to instill confidence in the measurements that are critical to their organizations for quality, safety, reliability, and cost. Fluke, Fluke Calibration and DH Instruments are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Fluke Corporation in the United States and/or other countries. The names of actual companies and products mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners.

About Fluke

Fluke Corporation is a leader in precision calibration instrumentation and software for electrical, temperature, pressure, flow, and RF measurements. Calibration products from Fluke and its Hart Scientific and DH Instruments Divisions are found in calibration facilities around the world, including National Metrology Institutes, that demand the highest levels of performance and reliability, backed by state of the art metrology and uncompromising support. They are relied on by quality engineers, calibration technicians, and metrologists to instill confidence in the measurements that are critical to their organisations for quality, safety, reliability, and cost. In the past five years, Fluke tools won more than 50 industry awards, including Test and Measurement World Best in Test, Control Engineering Engineer’s Choice, and Plant Engineering Product of the Year. Fluke is a registered trademark of Fluke Corporation in the United States and/or other countries. The names of actual companies and products mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners.

The release comes on the heels of a recent technology alliance with Riptano, the company providing software, support, and services for Cassandra, to perform research on enterprise needs and use cases for deploying Cassandra.

“Quest is helping increase enterprise use of NoSQL databases by developing products such as Toad for Cloud Databases that integrate these new, lower cost platforms into existing enterprise information systems,” said Laurence Cole, managing director, Australia and New Zealand, Quest Software. “We believe the NoSQL movement is here to stay, and based on the activity and interest we’ve monitored in social media communities, combined with adoption by high-profile customers, we’re convinced that Cassandra will be a long-term winner. As such, we wanted to team up with the known experts in this space – Riptano – to help reduce the learning curve associated with adopting this platform.”

The technology alliance provides the underpinnings for Quest and Riptano to investigate the need for tools around monitoring, diagnostics and data movement between relational databases and Cassandra that would provide multi-data center replication. Depending on the companies’ research findings, plans to develop such tools could be in the works for 2011.

Quest and Riptano will share their findings and educate the community on Cassandra’s benefits primarily through CloudDBPedia, a product-neutral online knowledgebase for free education and training on NoSQL and cloud databases. CloudDBPedia provides videos, podcasts, blogs, and a community-run wiki focused on various NoSQL technologies, like Cassandra.

“From our expertise and experience with Apache Cassandra, we see a real opportunity for large enterprise customers – whose data centers are primarily built on traditional RDBMS platforms – to take advantage of emerging, highly scalable platforms like Cassandra,” said Matt Pfeil, co-founder and CEO, Riptano. “Through our technology alliance with Quest, a company that knows the RDBMS market inside and out, we’ve laid the groundwork to help the market better understand the clear benefits of Cassandra, and successfully deploy it within the enterprise.”

About Quest Software, Inc.

Quest Software simplifies and reduces the cost of managing IT for more than 100,000 customers worldwide. Our innovative solutions make solving the toughest IT management problems easier, enabling customers to save time and money across physical, virtual and cloud environments.  For more information about Quest go to www.quest.com. 

About Riptano

Riptano provides companies with a scalable high performance database solution in Apache Cassandra. We offer the expertise, solutions, and services that allow those companies to build and run solutions on top of the Cassandra open source project. Riptano is the company for Apache Cassandra.

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Quest, Quest Software, Toad and the Quest logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Quest Software in the United States and certain other countries. Other trademarks and registered trademarks are property of their respective owners.

Web Links Referenced in this Release:

Quest Software, Inc: http://www.quest.com/

Toad^® for Cloud Databases: http://www.quest.com/toad-for-cloud-databases/

Riptano: http://www.riptano.com/

CloudDBPedia: http://www.clouddbpedia.com/

September 8, 2010 – Meru Networks, Inc., (NASDAQ:MERU), the leader in 802.11n virtualised wireless LAN solutions for enterprise networking, announced that its SG1000 Wireless Security Gateway currently supports 802.11n deployments, making Meru the only wireless LAN (WLAN) solution provider delivering 802.11n solutions built to the US National Institute of Standards and Technology’s (NIST) Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 140-2 Level 3 security specifications. Federal agencies, financial firms and commercial entities alike can experience the performance, predictability and scalability of Meru’s 802.11n virtualised wireless LAN (WLAN) solutions with the highest security assurance available in the marketplace today.

“The growth of wireless technology has created new security challenges for customers trying to provide a flexible but secure, infrastructure. Our FIPS 140-2 Level 3 validation for 802.11n deployments is just one example of how Meru is leading and shaping the WLAN industry,” said Ram Appalaraju, senior vice president, marketing, Meru Networks. According to the NIST Computer Security Division, Meru delivers the highest level of US Government FIPS security validation among WLAN vendors. Furthermore, our fully-integrated Service Assurance Platform offers comprehensive security functionality including rogue detection and mitigation in both 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz bands, a signature-based Wireless Intrusion Detection and Prevention (WIPS) to detect and counter wireless security issues.

Meru WLAN FIPS 140-2 Level 3 is the first to provide tamper-proof hardened epoxy shell devices that cannot function if broken and have the ability to be deployed without physical monitoring.  Meru localises the FIPS security services to a platform decoupled from, yet coexisting with, the overall WLAN, allowing the WLAN to be upgraded independent of the FIPS offering.  As the only WLAN vendor to offer this level of secure architecture, Meru follows the principle of containing and separating critical security functions from non-security-related operations.  Customers are able to use the latest available WLAN software without waiting for a year-long FIPS verification process that is required for each version and build of the cryptography firmware.

The SG1000 Wireless Security Gateway meets the Department of Defense (DoD) Directive 8100.2 with use of Commercial Wireless Devices, Services, and Technologies in the DoD Global Information Grid (GIG). SG1000 supports over 3,000 users in one appliance, offers strong 802.11i AES encryption and uses certificate-based EAP-TLS to authenticate all users.

To access Meru’s Security Gateway SG1000 Cryptographic Module Security Policy, please visit the NIST website. To view a complete list of companies with FIPS 140-2 Level 3 validation, go to NIST’s Computer Security Resource Center.

Product Availability

The SG1000 FIPS 140-2 Level 3 Gateway is available with the AP300 Series access point and any controller.

Meru’s wireless LAN solutions are distributed in Australia by Wavelink Communications.

About Meru Networks

Founded in 2002, Meru Networks provides a virtualised wireless LAN solution that cost-effectively optimises the enterprise network to deliver the performance, reliability, predictability and operational simplicity of a wired network, with the advantages of mobility. Meru’s solution represents an innovative approach to wireless networking that utilises virtualisation technology to create an intelligent and self-monitoring wireless network, and enables enterprises to migrate their business-critical applications from wired networks to wireless networks, and become all-wireless enterprises. Meru’s solutions have been adopted in all major industry vertical markets, including Fortune 500 enterprises, healthcare, education, retail, manufacturing, hospitality and government. Meru is headquartered in Sunnyvale, Calif., and has operations in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East and Asia Pacific. For more information, visit www.merunetworks.com.

About Wavelink

Wavelink Communications (www.wavelink.com.au) specialises in the supply, marketing and support of a range of leading edge IP, wireless and communication solutions. Wavelink distributes a range of products from Meru Networks, Polycom, Digium, Cisco, AirTight and amigopod.

Sydney, Australia, 8th September 2010 — Today, Eclipse Computing (Australia) Pty Ltd (Eclipse) proudly announced it has won the MAPA 2010 Microsoft Australia Partner of the Year Award for Microsoft Dynamics. The company was chosen out of a national field of top Microsoft partners for delivering market-leading customer solutions built on the Microsoft platform.

This award follows on from the global award Eclipse received in June 2010 as Microsoft Dynamics AX International Partner of the Year. Bradley Stroop, CEO Eclipse, said “We are delighted to receive this recognition from Microsoft. This is a fantastic recognition of our hard work in building strong vertical solutions within Microsoft Dynamics. Once again, the Eclipse ethos of combining intelligent solutions from Microsoft with old-fashioned service has resulted in a win for our customers. Delivering this consistently is what really matters to us”.

Awards were presented in 18 categories, and Eclipse was recognised for superior technology and innovation in Microsoft Dynamics. The Microsoft Dynamics Partner of the Year Award recognises partners who have delivered exemplary solutions using Microsoft technologies to address customer business needs and challenges.

“It’s an honour to congratulate Eclipse as a recipient of a MAPA 2010 Partner of the Year Award,” said Mr Paul Voges, Small and Mid-size Solutions and Partner Director.

“This award is a testament to the expertise, innovation and entrepreneurial spirit demonstrated by Eclipse. We offer our wholehearted congratulations to Eclipse and look forward to continued success in the future.”

The MAPA programme recognises Microsoft partners that have developed and delivered exceptional Microsoft-based solutions during the last year.

About Eclipse
Established in 1991, Eclipse is a leading provider of intelligent business solutions to the mid-market. With a team of over 380 people located in Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra, Perth, Brisbane, Adelaide, Tasmania, Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch, Suva and Vancouver, Eclipse provides expertise and reliable service to help over 1,100 customers meet their business objectives.

Eclipse is part of the publicly listed Australian investment company, UXC Limited. UXC reported a profit after tax of $18.8 million for 2009 financial year on revenues of $715 million.

For more information visit: http://www.eclipsecomputing.com.au

In an ATO Tax Ruling the Commissioner clearly states that where the purchaser decides not to proceed with a contract and forfeits the deposit, the purchaser will generally not be entitled to claim a capital loss. On the other hand, the seller, would in most cases, include the deposit as a capital gain in his tax return.

For example, Mr. X purchases a rental property from Mr. Z for $1 million and pays a deposit of $50,000. Later Mr. X decides not to proceed with the purchase because he is concerned that interest rates may increase, or he decides the property is not suitable. As a result, Mr. X forfeits his deposit of $50,000. In these circumstances the ATO view is that Mr. X will not be entitled to a tax deduction or capital loss of $50,000. However, Mr. Z will have to return the forfeited deposit of $50,000 as a capital gain.

It should be noted that there are limited circumstances where a capital loss can be claimed and taxpayers should get professional advice before deciding to abandon or forfeit their deposits.

About RSM Bird Cameron
RSM Bird Cameron is the largest mid-tier accounting firm in Australia serving the middle market with technical and commercial expertise over the full range of specialist corporate and business advisory services including assurance and advisory, corporate finance, taxation consulting and turnaround and insolvency.

RSM Bird Cameron is a core member firm of RSM International, the sixth largest accounting and consulting organisation in the world.