ATI Technologies Evades Global Spam Onslaught with FrontBridge's TrueProtect Filtering Service.

MARINA DEL REY, Calif. -- Graphics Leader Experiences 1000 percent increase in Spam; Turns to FrontBridge Managed Service for Protection from Global Epidemic

FrontBridge Technologies, the leader in enterprise message management and email security, today announced graphics leader, ATI Technologies Inc. (Nasdaq:ATYT) has selected FrontBridge to secure its corporate email infrastructure against global threats from spam and viruses. In the last year, FrontBridge successfully filtered millions of spam messages and viruses from ATI email, reducing the drain on enterprise productivity and increasing company-wide network performance.

FrontBridge's managed services for spam filtering and virus protection remove unwanted emails and dangerous viruses from messages before they pass through the corporate firewall.

ATI Technologies Inc. is one of the world's foremost leaders in the design and manufacture of innovative 3D graphics and digital media silicon solutions. The FrontBridge service protects more than 2,700 ATI employees worldwide in 20 offices located in the Americas, Europe and Asia.

Suffering from a 1000 percent rise in spam that impacted the company's productivity, ATI turned to FrontBridge in August 2003, for protection.

In the first month of service, FrontBridge reduced their spam dramatically, blocking more than 414,000 spam messages. The service continued to keep spam levels down throughout the year despite an exponential increase in spam volume brought on by several virus outbreaks such as SoBig and Netsky, designed to transform corporate PC's into spam relaying zombies.

Now, FrontBridge blocks more than 5 million spam messages a month for ATI and approximately 8 million viruses annually. Without the FrontBridge service, ATI would have been hard-pressed to scale its software-based infrastructure to tackle its spam problem, given the unforeseen increase in spam messages aimed at business email users across the globe. ATI's spam volume is now pegged at 40-percent of its total email. This percentage of unwanted email never reaches the ATI network, preventing unnecessary storage and saving server space for more critical applications.

The recommendation and implementation of FrontBridge's service was led by Tillica Technology Solutions Inc., a leading IT technology services provider.

"In this year alone, our corporate email system has been virtually impenetrable, despite the increase in spam and viruses across the globe," said David Goodridge, director of infrastructure for ATI Technologies. "With the help of FrontBridge, we've been able to keep our employees protected and productive. They're immune to most of the challenges transmitted through the email channel and therefore can remain focused on extending our market leadership in the competitive graphics market."

Delivered as a managed service with no hardware or software to install, FrontBridge's TrueProtect service delivers the industry's lowest false positive rate, provides the industry's best reliability (zero down time since the service's inception in 2000), and offers the easiest solution to manage and implement. Its unique implementation process, which places control over corporate email with the IT department, typically has customers up and running in under an hour. All of these features are supported by FrontBridge's SMART Network of global, distributed and load-balanced data centers, which makes FrontBridge one of only a few organizations capable of guaranteeing 99.999 percent reliability on top of its record of 100 percent since service inception in 2000. The FrontBridge TrueProtect suite has been vetted by more than 2,200 enterprise customers.

"FrontBridge has been instrumental in keeping our systems protected from email borne ailments," continued Goodridge. "Without the service, we would have had a difficult time scaling our software-based filtering infrastructure to keep step with the quantum leaps in spam and viruses. Since implementing FrontBridge, I have received few complaints about spam, our network has never been hit by an email-borne virus, and we've never lost an email due to an unplanned network outage."

"Large enterprises, such as ATI, face numerous threats, from spam and viruses, to email outages and employee sabotage," said Tom Orella, vice president of sales operations for FrontBridge Technologies. "Enterprises choose FrontBridge for the effectiveness of our service coupled with our technology breadth. By relying on multiple FrontBridge message management services, including spam filtering, virus protection, content and policy enforcement, and disaster recovery, ATI has managed to maintain an effective email system, despite a constant barrage of inbox attacks."

About ATI Technologies Inc.

ATI Technologies Inc. is a world leader in the design and manufacture of innovative 3D graphics and digital media silicon solutions. An industry pioneer since 1985, ATI is the world's foremost visual processor unit (VPU) provider and is dedicated to deliver leading-edge performance solutions for the full range of PC and Mac desktop and notebook platforms, workstation, set-top-box and digital television, game console and handheld markets. With 2003 revenues in excess of US $1.3 billion, ATI has more than 2,700 employees in the Americas, Europe and Asia. ATI common shares trade on NASDAQ (ATYT) and the Toronto Stock Exchange (ATY).

About Tillica Technology Solutions

Based in Canada, Tillica Technology Solutions Inc, a wholly owned subsidiary of Meridex Software Corporation (traded on the TSXV under MSC), is a national provider of Information Technology services that specialize in help desk, network infrastructure solutions, e-mail protection and security services. We provide our customers with cost-effective solutions designed to provide or complement an in-house IT organization. More information can be found at www.tillica.com and www.meridex.com.

About FrontBridge Technologies

FrontBridge Technologies Inc. is the market leader for Enterprise message management and security services. Its comprehensive portfolio of managed services include spam filtering, virus protection, policy enforcement, disaster recovery, secure email and message archiving. FrontBridge managed services are delivered across the company's SMART network - a proven, reliable, on-demand, globally-distributed network of secure data centers. FrontBridge was the first company to guarantee 99.999-percent service level agreements (SLA) and the only company with a track record of 100-percent uptime.

Now in its fifth year of operation, FrontBridge, headquartered in Marina del Rey, Calif., provides message management and security for more than 2,200 enterprises globally. Visit us on the Web at www.FrontBridge.com or call 877.301.8232 or in the UK, +44 20 7872.5417

TrueProtect and SMART Network are trademarks of FrontBridge Technologies.