TALARIAN –

Mountain View, Calif.

Went public 7/21/2000 at $16 per share

Filing Range: 4 mil. shares @ $12 to $14

Shares Outstanding: 18.86 mil. shares

Underwriters: Lehman Brothers/SG Cowen/Wit Soundview Group Inc./Fidelity Capital Markets

Company Counsel: Fenwick & West LLP

Manager Counsel: Simpson Thacher & Bartlett

Auditor: KPMG LLP

The Company

Develops and markets software development tools for intelligent monitoring and control of complex, time-critical systems. The family of software called, RTworks, is a powerful set of application development tools for the acquisition, analysis, distribution, and display of real-time data in an effective and meaningful way. Applications possible in the utilities, telecommunications and other industries. RTworks is available on DEC/VMS, DEC/ULTRIX, Hewlett-Packard, SUN, Silicon Graphics, IBM workstations, and under Wind River Systems’ VxWorks embeddable real-time operating kernal.

Venture Backers:

HSBC Private Equity (Asia) Ltd.

Richland Ventures

Indosuez Ventures

Allegra Partners

Nortel Networks

Signal Capital Corp.

Third Millennium Venture Capital Ltd.

Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers

Financing Rounds:

Number of Round Amt.

Round # Round Date Stage Investors ($ thousands)

1 07/01/1989 1 Early Stage 0.0

2 01/01/1990 1 Early Stage 2.0

3 03/01/1992 2 Early Stage 1250.0

4 01/01/1994 2 Early Stage 2000.0

5 10/01/1995 3 Early Stage 1000.0

6 02/04/2000 5 Expansion 10000.0

Financials:

(Data in $ millions)

Y/E

09/30/99

Total Revenues: $9.0

Net Income: -3.3