VMETRO Bolsters Leadership Team

HOUSTON & OSLO, Norway--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 2, 2005--VMETRO, a premier provider of embedded, real-time boards and sub-systems based on open standards, announces the hiring of Dave Barker as Vice-President of Business Development for Processing Solutions. Mr.Barker has established a substantial presence within the embedded computing industry during eighteen-plus years with Motorola Computer Group and as a charter member of the VITA Marketing Committee. "We are very pleased to have Dave join our team," says Jim Gerberman, President of VMETRO Inc. "His leadership and passion for making a difference in our industry brings considerable magnitude to VMETRO as

we further augment our capabilities in light of our recent acquisition

of Transtech DSP."

About VMETRO

VMETRO offers products and services that enable customers to build and deliver superior high-end digital processing, recording and sensor I/O systems on time! The products are based on open standards like VXS, VME, PCI, cPCI and RACEway. Founded in 1986 in Oslo, Norway, and in the US since 1987, VMETRO is the world's largest manufacturer of bus analyzers for standard buses such as VME and PCI. VMETRO also offers an extensive line of high-performance signal processing

solutions, real-time data recorders, PMC I/O controllers and modules for real-time data processing, acquisition and networking. VMETRO merged with Transtech DSP Ltd (High Wycombe, UK) on October 1, 2004,adding a powerful range of signal processing products to the VMETRO product range. VMETRO is traded on the Oslo Stock Exchange (OSE:VME).

For more information, please visit www.vmetro.com.