Laszlo Technology Being Adopted by Industry-Leading Corporations; Applications Reaching Over 40 Million People Monthly in the U.S.

SAN MATEO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Laszlo Systems, a global leader in Rich Internet Application (RIA) software, today announced that web applications developed with Laszlo technology reached a record high, serving 40 million people monthly in the U.S. alone during the first half 2007. The company also announced that its customer base, now in the hundreds, continued to grow at a strong pace, while its global community of developers increased to over 75,000 members.

“Our job search application is among the most attractive features on Monster.com today, and given its importance to our core business, we wouldn’t have trusted any other partner to help us get it right.”

More than a dozen of the Fortune 100 enterprises and many other leading corporations have recently turned to Laszlo to empower their online users with richer, more fluid web experiences. Examples include:

Monster.com (www.monster.com), the most widely used career management site on the web, paired its advanced media developer team with Laszlo's professional services department, Laszlo Studios, to completely re-invent its popular job search application using Laszlo’s open source software, OpenLaszlo. Users can now intuitively narrow their job search in a matter of seconds to find, filter and examine listings.

“We chose Laszlo over its competitors for the maturity of OpenLaszlo’s development environment and the company’s commitment to our success,” said Dave Dellovo, Senior Director, Advanced Media Platform, Monster.com. “Our job search application is among the most attractive features on Monster.com today, and given its importance to our core business, we wouldn’t have trusted any other partner to help us get it right.”

Walmart.com (www.walmart.com) uses OpenLaszlo on its home page to create a seamless display for its latest products and promotions. The application runs in any standard browser and automatically scrolls through images upon entrance to the site, dynamically creating the effect of an in-page advertisement segment.

H&R Block (www.hrblock.com) commissioned Laszlo Studios to design a new home page in time for the opening of the 2007 tax returns season. The result is fluid interface navigation that easily guides users through H&R Block’s various offerings. Building on that success, the H&R Block development team later used Laszlo technology to create www.tango.com - an easy-to-use tax preparation site that launched in February.

A wide variety of other companies and institutions, ranging from small to large and in multiple industries, also chose to improve their sites with Laszlo’s technology during the first half of 2007. They include T Rowe Price, Barclays Global, Renaissance Learning, United States Air Force, Coghead, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, among others. International sites currently span over 20 countries and 5 continents, exemplified by IBM’s “What Makes You Special” campaign, which has been translated into a dozen languages.

“Since our founding in 2000, we’ve built our business knowing that creative, intuitive user interfaces are essential to the popular appeal of web-based applications. The dramatic adoption of Laszlo’s software in recent months, along with growing interest in products such as Apple’s iPhone and Google Maps, indicates that the market has come to the same conclusion,” said Steve Ciesinski, President and CEO, Laszlo Systems.

In addition to offering services and support for the OpenLaszlo platform, Laszlo has built its own commercial products using OpenLaszlo, including a sophisticated Webmail, Laszlo Mail, and a recently launched rich Internet desktop in a browser, Laszlo Webtop. Already licensed by some of the nation’s top corporations, Laszlo Webtop is being used to deliver integrated suites of Laszlo-based RIAs. More details around product enhancements and public implementations will be released in the early fall.

Earlier this year, Gartner, Inc. named Laszlo to its “Cool Vendors in Application Development, 2007” list.¹ One of the authors of the Gartner report, Ray Valdes, Research Director, commented:

"As back-end systems mature, the focus of competition in applications and services moves to the front-end user experience. It’s becoming clear that innovative experience design has the potential for sustainable competitive advantage - even for late entrants in mature product categories. RIA technologies, when properly exploited, can deliver significant business value."

For more information about Laszlo Systems, its products and professional services, please visit www.laszlosystems.com. To download OpenLaszlo for free today, visit www.openlaszlo.org.

About Laszlo Systems

Laszlo Systems is a leading provider of rich Internet application (RIA) software. Laszlo is also the original developer of OpenLaszlo, which has been widely adopted by application and service providers in the consumer, enterprise, education and government markets. Laszlo Systems provides training and support for OpenLaszlo and offers its own commercially licensed rich-experience digital life applications such as Laszlo Mail and Laszlo Webtop, built on OpenLaszlo. For more information about San Mateo, Calif.-based Laszlo Systems, visit www.laszlosystems.com.

¹ Gartner, Inc., "Cool Vendors in Application Development, 2007" by Jim Duggan et al, March 15, 2007.