Coverity Software Selected by Palm to Incorporate into Their Wireless Software Quality Process
Enterprise developer testing solution boosts functionality, performance, and security for millions of wireless users.

SAN FRANCISCO, August 22, 2005 – Coverity, Inc., makers of the world's most advanced and scalable source code analysis solution for pinpointing software defects and security vulnerabilities, today announced that Palm, Inc., a leader in mobile computing, has selected Coverity's products as part of a company-wide software initiative. designed to augment the functionality, performance, and security of its wireless applications Palm® mobile devices and software applications are used by millions of people worldwide. Today, the product family consists of Treo™ smartphones, the LifeDrive™ mobile manager, and the Tungsten™ and Zire™ series handhelds.

Palm has deployed Coverity Prevent™ to its entire development staff. Palm is using Coverity's static code tools to help ensure that Palm's applications meet rigid quality and security requirements.

"Palm is taking a serious and rigorous approach to ensuring that its wireless software systems are of the highest quality," says Seth Hallem, CEO of Coverity Software. "By placing quality first, Palm will be able to provide the best possible products to its customers while significantly reducing software development and support costs."

About Coverity
Coverity (www.coverity.com), makers of the world's most advanced and scalable source code analysis solution for pinpointing software defects and security vulnerabilities, is a privately-held company headquartered in San Francisco. Coverity was founded in 2002 by leading Stanford University scientists whose four-year research project resulted in a breakthrough approach for addressing the costliest problem in the software industry. That research breakthrough allows developers to quickly and precisely eliminate software defects and security vulnerabilities in tens of millions of lines of new or legacy code. Today, Coverity's solution is used by more than 50 leading companies to significantly improve the quality of their software, including Juniper Networks, VERITAS, McAfee, Synopsys, NASA, PalmOne, Sun Microsystems and Wind River.

Coverity is a registered trademark, and Coverity Extend and Coverity Prevent are trademarks of Coverity, Inc. All other company and product names are the property of their respective owners.

Media Contacts
Bret Clement
Page One PR for Coverity
bret@pageonepr.com
(303) 462-3057

David Park
dave@coverity.com
(415) 321-5204

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