Microway, Inc. Awarded GSA Contract

Plymouth, MA - March 24, 2003 - Microway, a leading manufacturer of custom-configured Linux Beowulf Clusters, is proud to announce that it has officially been awarded a GSA Federal Supply Schedule contract under agreement number GS-35F-0431N. This allows Microway to sell products and services at pre-negotiated prices to Federal Government customers.

A major portion of Microway products are sold to government agencies. "Microway pursued a GSA contract to provide additional service to our Federal customers," stated Jay Owen, Vice President, Business Development. "This will simplify procurement for long standing Microway customers, as well as opening sales to government users who are required to buy from vendors with a GSA contract."

In order to be granted a GSA Contract, Microway had to comply with strict requirements focusing on pricing, reliability and quality of their products. Microway's clusters use Xeon, Itanium2, Athlon, Opteron or Alpha processors in 1U, 2U and 4U-based custom configurations with monitoring and management tools. Microway is a member of the Intel Premier Provider program and is a Myricom reseller. Microway also integrates a wide range of data storage, compilers and application software to provide turnkey solutions to users.

About Microway, Inc.

Microway is a major vendor in the High-Performance Computing market. The company designs and integrates state of the art, high end Linux clusters for universities, life sciences, financial institutions, Fortune 500 companies and government research agencies worldwide.

Microway is a small business, woman owned and operated: and a Massachusetts corporation, since 1982.
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