January 25, 2011 Equalis, the innovative on-line destination for the mathematics community, today announced that it has appointed TechPassion as its partner for India. TechPassion, an engineering product and services company, has strong experience in numerical analysis and working with major Indian industrial companies and education institutions. Through this partnership, Equalis and TechPassion will drive adoption of the Scilab open source math application by providing customers direct access to a local, dedicated team of applications specialists to solve challenges fast.

Equalis is driving the most vibrant and far reaching on-line math-centric community. It enables the free flow of ideas, cutting-edge research, open source technology, problem solving, and job opportunities for individuals and organizations with a common interest in math and math-centric endeavors. Equalis is a member of the Scilab Consortium, and exclusive worldwide Scilab On-line Support (SOS) partner of Scilab Enterprises, the development and service company for Scilab, the leading Open Source numerical computation platform. The SOS program provides Scilab users a full range of premium benefits, including; advanced user documentation, email support, video tutorials, priority bug fixes, and real-time support via chat, phone, and desktop connect. Equalis also provides support migrating Matlab users to the Scilab application.

TechPassion has developed a VMAP solution, integrated with Scilab, to bridge the gap between virtual prototyping and physical testing and experimentation in the product design cycle. TechPassion also has extensive expertise in providing Scilab traning and deploying Scilab solutions.

"We are delighted to expand our coverage for our fast growing Indian customer base through this partnership with TechPassion whose domain expertise will provide accelerated deployments and strong local support”, said Neil Mitchell, COO and Co-founder, Equalis. "We look forward to continuing to grow the adoption of Scilab in India”.

"We are excited to join the Equalis team and support their global operations”, said Dhanushkodi Mariappan, CEO, TechPassion. "We look forward to bringing our expertise to bear in supporting more Scilab customer programs".

About TechPassion

TechPassion is an ISO Certified engineering Product Company building the next generation software tools used by product design teams in industries such as automotive, aerospace, energy, civil structures. TechPassion's product, VMAP is used by customers to perform vibration testing and correlation of simulation and experimental results thereby shrinking product development time. TechPassion is also engaged in the business of engineering services, offering design engineering services to customers who develop new products like automobile components, aerospace components and energy system like wind turbines. From concept development to prototype testing, TechPassion provides end-to-end solutions. To learn more, please visit www.techpassiontech.com.

About Equalis

Equalis is the innovative on-line destination for the mathematics community. It provides the most vibrant and far reaching math-centric community on the internet, enabling the free flow of ideas, cutting-edge research, open source software, problem solving, open innovation and job opportunities for individuals and organizations with a common interest in math and math-centric endeavors. To join the community or for more information: www.equalis.com.