The formation of the Alliance was announced at the Microsoft Tech-Ed IT Forum in Barcelona, Spain.

Jeff Harrison, President and CEO of The Carbon Project, said, "Working with the Alliance compliments our mission to make location-based content accessible and usable to everyone, everywhere. Our flagship product, CarbonTools PRO, is a true geospatial interoperability enhancement to the .NET framework, so joining the Alliance makes sense from all angles and will help us apply CarbonTools to connect people, data and systems."

Sam Rosenbalm, Business Development Manager, Microsoft, said, "The Alliance is committed to interoperability for its customers and vendors. The Carbon Project's participation will help strengthen the Alliance's effort to advance interoperability, especially for location-based content."

For more information on how The Carbon Project is helping to make location content accessible and usable to everyone, everywhere, please visit www.TheCarbonProject.com or contact info (at) thecarbonproject.com. Additional information about the Interop Vendor Alliance can be found on the Interop Vendor Alliance Web site at http://www.interopvendoralliance.org.

About The Carbon Project
The Carbon Project is a Microsoft Certified Partner that pioneers innovative geosocial solutions and makes location-based content accessible and usable to everyone, everywhere. The Carbon Project's flagship product, CarbonTools PRO, is a software development toolkit that enhances the Microsoft .NET framework to support advanced location content handling and sharing. The revolutionary CarbonCloud peer-to-peer (P2P) framework is the world's first P2P framework for sharing location content. For more information please visit www.TheCarbonProject.com or our portal for software developers at www.TheCarbonPortal.net.

About the Interop Vendor Alliance
Formed in 2006, the Interop Vendor Alliance is an industrywide group working to identify and share opportunities to better connect people, data and diverse systems through better interoperability with Microsoft systems and to jointly market interoperability solutions of its members. Founding members include AMD, BEA Systems, Business Objects, CA, The Carbon Project, Centeris, Citrix Systems, GXS, IP Commerce, JNBridge, Kernel Networks, Levi, Ray & Shoup, Microsoft, NEC, Network Appliance, Novell, Q4bis, Quest Software, Siemens Enterprise Communications, Software AG, SugarCRM, Sun Microsystems, Symphony Services, Xcalia, and XenSource. Additional information about the Interop Vendor Alliance can be found on its Web site at http://www.interopvendoralliance.org.

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