Microway, Inc. and Platform Computing Expand Relationship to Deliver Comprehensive Clustering and Grid Solutions

PLYMOUTH, MASSACHUSETTS MA - December 13, 2002 - Microway, a leading provider of custom Linux clusters, and Platform Computing announced that Microway will now resell all Platform products and services, including Platform Intelligence™ and Platform LSF® 5. This marks an expansion of the existing OEM relationship through which Microway bundles Platform Clusterware™, Platform's cluster management solution, as part of its CW Series Clusters offering.

"We have been pleased with the initial reaction to our CW Series Clusters powered by Platform Clusterware," commented Jay Owen, Vice President of Business Development at Microway. "Many of our customers want to be able to obtain a wider range of Platform's products from us. This is a natural step. Microway intends to increase the level of in-house expertise in Platform's products, especially those enabling Grid computing."

"We are pleased to leverage the success of our existing relationship with Microway and extend our OEM relationship to a broader reseller agreement," said Paul Hill, Vice President Marketing and Business Development, Platform. "This closer working relationship will enable Microway and Platform to provide customers in the life sciences and research markets with solutions that increase operational efficiency, improve business results, and increase return on investment on the corporate IT asset."

With a new high performance, Grid-enabled architecture, Platform LSF 5 is the foundation of Platform's Grid computing solutions, empowering enterprises to harness the untapped processing power of globally distributed, heterogeneous computing resources. Platform Intelligence is a unique solution that enables IT professionals to understand and proactively manage complex distributed IT computing environments. The first 'IT Analytics' solution of its kind, Platform Intelligence provides visibility into the utilization, performance and value of distributed enterprise-wide IT resources.

Microway has developed a number of management tools in the past year including MCMS™ and NodeWatch™, a proprietary hardware/software environmental monitoring product. Platform Computing products provide a logical extension of Microway's offering for those customers needing the support and services of robust, full featured load balancing and management applications.

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About Microway, Inc Incorporated in 1982, Microway is a major vendor in the Supercomputing market. Microway designs and integrates state of the art, high end Linux solutions for universities, life sciences, financial institutions, Fortune 500 companies and government research agencies worldwide. Specializing in meeting the needs of high performance computing applications, Microway delivers a specially designed 1U chassis with 'Across the Board' cooling. Microway platforms incorporate Xeon, Athlon and Alpha processors. Its trademarks include NumberSmasher, GigaBlade, Screamer, RuggedRak and QuadPuter. For more information, please visit http://www.microway.com.