Communiqués de Presse

PremiumSoft flagship product, Navicat, is named as the China Outstanding Software Product 2009 during the "China Outstanding Software Products Award - Hong Kong Section" prize presentation ceremony organized by the China Software Industry Association during the Hong Kong International Information and Communications Expo 2010.

"China Outstanding Software Products Award" (COSPA) election is a national software product
assessment event organized by the "China Software Industry Association" (CSIA) every year.
The aim of the Award is to elect and recommend a list of local developed outstanding software
products to the China Government Departments; State-owned Enterprises and other enterprises,
through the publishing of an official "Recommended Software Product Procurement List".

This is the 16th year of this nationwide annual award program. There are approximately 60-100
software products selected as "Yearly China Outstanding Software Products" each year. These
elected software products can use the branding of say "2009 China Outstanding Software
Product" on their product packaging.

The assessment of the software product will mainly base on the "Functionality and Practicality Level", "Product Technology Level", "Commercialization Level", "User Usage Situation", "Market Share" various areas. The attainment of the award by Navicat represents its outstanding performance on the areas mentioned above.

PremiumSoft is honored to have Navicat received the China Outstand Software Product Award 2009. PremiumSoft will continue to develop new features making Navicat a tool for users to administer and manage databases quickly and easily.

PremiumSoft today announces the immediate release of version 9 for the whole Navicat™ family, including:

- Navicat™ Premium

- Navicat™ for MySQL

- Navicat™ for SQLite

- Navicat™ for Oracle

- Navicat™ for PostgreSQL

To meet the wishes of Navicat customers and the demand of managing SQLite database server through a GUI, Navicat for SQLite is introduced to the Navicat family in this launch. Navicat for SQLite provides SQLite users a tool for administering and managing database objects as well as for database migration, data import, export, synchronization, reporting, and more.

With the launch of Navicat for SQLite, database connectivity to SQLite servers is also added to Navicat Premium. Navicat Premium unites all Navicat family members for database administration and development, into one powerful and easy-to-use work environment. With the new Navicat Premium version 9, users can connect to 4 of the most common databases including MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL and SQLite within one single application, making cross-database data management feasible.

In addition to the introduction of Navicat for SQLite, another significant feature improvement to version 9 is the introduction of PL/SQL debugger in Navicat for Oracle. The PL/SQL debugger lets users debug their code easily, it helps to avoid tedious PL/SQL debugging tasks, saving time and improving the overall quality of applications.

"We're very excited about the launch of Navicat version 9", said Mr. Ken Lin, the Software Development Director at PremiumSoft. "We see the demand of managing SQLite database server through a Graphical User Interface, so we have released Navicat for SQLite to meet customer's requests. In addition, we have enhanced many of the functions in Navicat and introduced new features like PL/SQL debugger in Navicat for Oracle. In version 9, Navicat Premium is supporting connection to one more database, SQLite. With all these improvements and changes, we aim to make Navicat to be one of the essential tools for all web developers and database administrators."

New Key features:

- Support of SQLite

- Oracle PL/SQL Debugger

- Enhanced Code Completion

- Code Formatter

- Code outline

- Recovery of Documents from crashes

- Shortcut to open official online documents

- Option to show query results below query editor

- Storing favorite actions as shortcut

- Enhanced User Interface

Navicat Premium starts from US$199, currently available for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Linux supporting simultaneous connections to MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle and SQLite databases.

For more details, please see the release notes at https://www.navicat.com/products/navicat_premium

Or, download the 30-day fully functional free trial at: https://www.navicat.com/download

About PremiumSoft CyberTech Limited:

PremiumSoft was founded in 1999 and is a fast growing company, aiming at accelerating application development and database management with software that enhance productivity and maximize results of our customers. With our customer-centric focus and best-of-breed products and services, PremiumSoft has been successful in making customers significantly more productive.