Aaxion Announces New Key Strategic Partnerships; Company Aligns Itself With Important Players in Storage Back-Up, Embedded OS Applications and Diagnostic Software Businesses.

Business/Technology Editors

Internet Commerce Expo San Jose 2000

MARLBORO, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 8, 2000

Aaxion Software Corporation announced the signing of several new strategic alliance partners in an effort to combine forces and expand market reach.

"Shared expertise, improved customer services, speed-to-market and strong marketing synergy are all important benefits to these alliances" said Ray Drueke, Aaxion's CEO and founder. Commenting on the individual companies involved, Paul Ellingwood, Aaxion's Vice President, Sales & Marketing said, "Each of these companies, NaviStor.Com, LynuxWorks and SoftTech Solutions represent expertise in delivering high-availability and reliability solutions. And, they each have a common target market and a complimentary installed base of customers that will benefit from our unique fault management technology."

James R. Addlesberger, Chairman and CEO of NaviStor.Com, a Storage & Backup Systems Integrator with headquarters in Concord, Mass., whose own select partnerships reflect NaviStor's focus on high availability storage systems, such as SANs-storage area networks, NAS-network-attached storage and SRM-storage resource management software, said "We see our partnership with Aaxion as enabling us to bring a new level of "predictive" availability to our customers based on Aaxion's new product set LookOut. Aaxion enables us to differentiate ourselves with many of the rapidly expanding, seven-by-twenty-four dependent, eCommerce companies and sets us another notch above the competition." Along with Aaxion, Navistor.Com designs and integrates best-of-breed offerings from StorageTek, LSI Logic, Exabyte, IBM, Veritas, Tivoli, Brocade, JNI, Vixel and others.

Another new Aaxion partner, LynuxWorks, Inc., is a worldwide leader in embedded Linux and high-performance real-time operating system software for embedded applications. With mission-critical customers in telecom, medical, aerospace and defense, LynuxWorks' mandate is "five-nines" reliable and Aaxion's proactive software technology conforms to that mandate. "Our Synergy Partnerships are set up to provide innovative technology solutions to LynxOS(R) real-time operating system and BlueCat(TM) Linux customers. Aaxion's unique predictive fault-management technology is just such an opportunity," said Dr. Inder Singh, CEO and Chairman of LynuxWorks, Inc.

In the area of Aaxion's fault-management core competency is a new OEM partnership with SoftTech (ST) Solutions. ST Solutions is a leading developer of advanced on-line diagnostic software and hardware repair tools for the Unix industry. ST Solutions saw in Aaxion's LookOut an opportunity to re-brand a complimentary sister product to their highly successful On Line! Detective(R) for Sun(TM), a software tool offering complete, in-depth product knowledge reference materials for sales and administration personnel supporting Sun Microsystems workstations and servers. "Sleuth combined with On-Line! Detective for Sun becomes a powerful combination of tools to increase up-time in mission-critical environments," states Paul Violassi, CEO of SoftTech. "With the average outage cost in the tens of thousands of dollars, predictive and preventive tools like Sleuth and Detective can save companies hundreds of thousands of dollars annually."

Aaxion's LookOut is a revolutionary, intuitive software tool that "watches" and classifies fault and error events reported by the operating system, noting the frequency of each occurrence. LookOut identifies potential hardware unreliability from a stream of intermittent hardware faults recorded in the system event log. Utilizing unique fault detection and pattern recognition technologies, LookOut sends notification when, and only if, the trended pattern of observed faults match those known to precede failure.

Aaxion is dedicated to keeping the eCommerce infrastructure up and running and LookOut was developed to deliver greater web-business reliability and to meet the continued growth demands of the Internet.

Aaxion Software, founded in 1999, is a privately-held, USA based corporation, serving enterprise web service, eBusiness and web hosting customers; contracts multiple, licensed resellers and markets its products through several worldwide distributor partnerships.

For more information on Aaxion, visit www.aaxion.com.

Aaxion, Aaxion Software, Aaxion LookOut and LookOut Assistant, are trademarks of Aaxion Software Corporation. All other trademarks are property of their respective owners.