Avid:

NAB 2006, Las Vegas (Booth #SL701) ? April 23, 2006 ? Avid Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ: AVID) today announced that it has shattered major real-time storage barriers by introducing an Open Storage Initiative that allows customers to run third-party applications on Avid storage systems, and by offering massive increases to its entire shared-storage line. Professionals can now use virtually any third-party Mac OS X or Windows XP content creation tool with the Avid® VideoRAID? and Avid Unity? product families. In addition, Avid has tripled the storage headroom of the Avid Unity ISIS? system to an unprecedented 192 terabytes (TB), and doubled the capacity for the Avid Unity MediaNetwork and LANshare systems. All Avid Unity systems also support Avid Interplay? ? the world?s first nonlinear workflow engine that breaks new ground in team-based collaboration for media production (announced today in a separate release: www.avid.com/company/releases/2006/060423_interplay_avid.html).