Digipede™ Technologies (www.digipede.net ), leading grid software provider, announced today its award-winning Digipede Network™ is the first distributed computing solution to earn the "Certified for Windows Server® 2008" software certification.

The Digipede Network is grid computing software that dramatically improves application performance by distributing execution across a network of Windows computers. The Digipede Network enables mainstream enterprise developers to build high-performance distributed applications and web services from within Visual Studio, being built entirely on .NET. Deployed by organizations of all sizes, the Digipede Network increases business performance by eliminating application performance bottlenecks.

The Digipede Network comes with the acclaimed Digipede Framework SDK, which integrates with Visual Studio 2008. The software development kit and debugging package simplify grid-enablement and enhance developer productivity, helping reduce the time it takes to adapt applications such as complex, compute-intensive Microsoft Excel spreadsheets to run on a grid of hundreds of servers or desktops.

Tony de Freitas, director of Windows Server marketing at Microsoft said: "Microsoft is pleased to count Digipede Technologies among the earliest companies worldwide to earn the Certified for Windows Server 2008 software logo with their Digipede Network grid solution". "The security and solid foundation of Windows Server 2008 plus the speed, security, and interoperability of Microsoft .NET provide an ideal platform for Digipede's innovative grid computing solution. Windows Server 2008 and the Digipede Network provide a powerful grid solution for our mutual customers."

Windows Server 2008 software certification consists of approximately 100 test cases that independently confirm an application's compliance with best practices for compatibility, security, reliability, and availability on the new platform, while ensuring the software performs in a 64-bit environment. The certification identifies top-performing technologies that are ready to deploy in mission-critical environments. As a participant in the Microsoft Early Access Program (EAP) for Windows Server 2008 Software Certification, the Digipede Network is one of more than 300 applications that are eligible for certification on a pre-release version of the new platform.