Andover.Net Announces Corporate Services for Businesses Adopting Linux/Open Source.Business/Technology Editors ACTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 27, 2000 New Maintenance, Support and Consulting Services Accelerate Broad Use of Linux in Corporations Andover.Net (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :ANDN) the Internet's leading Linux destination, today announced a new corporate services Activities that combine or consolidate certain enterprise-wide needed support services, provided based on specialized knowledge, best practices, and technology to serve internal (and sometimes external) customers and business partners. initiative for Linux and Open Source projects. The program includes a broad range of fee-based Internet services including on-line technical documentation, on-line expert support, application updates and project consulting. The announcement of the program was made in conjunction with Andover.Net's acquisition of QuestionExchange, the leading on-line technical support site for Linux and Open Source. &uot;In conventional support models, dozens of people support dozens of applications to a few dozen corporations,&uot; said Bruce Twickler, president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Andover.Net. &uot;But many of our 2.4 million unique visitors A count of how many different people access a Web site. For example, if a user leaves and comes back to the site five times during the measurement period, that person is counted as one unique visitor, but would count as five "user sessions. each month are people who can give support, so we'll use a collaborative support model over the Internet to extend service on thousands of products to thousands of corporations.&uot; The center of the Andover.Net initiative is its Freshmeat.net site, the largest Linux/Open Source repository where over 700,000 developers come each month. From Freshmeat, developers can link to over 7,000 applications/projects to download them or collaborate in their development. Freshmeat provides both the product and developer knowledge bases for corporate services. Andover.Net is expanding Freshmeat services that include web hosting Making a Web site available on the Internet. Many ISPs host a few personal Web pages for an individual at no additional cost above the monthly service fee, but the address is subordinate to the ISP; for example, www.friendlyisp.com/pat_smith. , project management and consulting services. As the third component to Andover.Net's total revenue, corporate service revenues will complement the revenues from the other two components, advertising and e-commerce. In addition to growing revenues, Andover.Net's new corporate service program is expected to boost traffic on Andover.Net's network of sites, attract sponsors and investors to Linux/Open Source projects and strengthen Andover.Net's relationships with the core developers in the community. &uot;The 21st century software development company such as Andover.Net is making the most of the Internet for contracting, collaboration and distribution of products from start to finish, &uot; said Bill Claybrook of Aberdeen Group Aberdeen Group is a provider of business-related research services. It has its headquarters in Boston, Massachusetts and belongs to the Harte-Hanks group. Founded in 1988, Aberdeen's research is used by over 2. . &uot;Critical factors for these organizations will be total programming resources available and management of the product development process to ensure client satisfaction, both of which in the Open Source space Andover.Net has the most resources.&uot; About Andover.Net Andover.Net (NASDAQ: ANDN) is the leading Linux destination on the Internet. Serving 50 million page impressions to over 2.4 million users each month, Andover.Net (www.andover.net) includes the largest Linux news/community site, Slashdot (slashdot.org); the largest site for open source programmer resources, Freshmeat.net (www.freshmeat.net); and the popular developer e-commerce site, ThinkGeek (thinkgeek.com). With these sites and our other Linux sites such as FreeCode (freecode.com) and LinuxDaveCentral (www.linux.davecentral.com), Andover.Net accounts for over 50% of the visits to Linux destinations on the Internet. Andover.Net also includes cross-platform sites such as MediaBuilder (www.mediabuilder.com) that provide programmer and developer resources for users of many popular operating systems Operating systems can be categorized by technology, ownership, licensing, working state, usage, and by many other characteristics. In practice, many of these groupings may overlap. in addition to Linux such as Windows, UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). and Macintosh. Except for the historical information contained herein, the matters discussed in this news release are forward-looking statements forward-looking statement A projected financial statement based on management expectations. A forward-looking statement involves risks with regard to the accuracy of assumptions underlying the projections. involving risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in such forward-looking statements. Potential risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, Andover.Net's limited operating history, expectation that Andover will incur substantial losses in the future; Andover's reliance on Linux/Open Source community; Andover's heavy reliance on advertising revenues; intense competition and other risks listed in Andover.Net's S-1 registration statement. Andover.Net, Slashdot, Freshmeat, HTMLWorks, GIFWorks, AndoverNews Network, MediaBuilder, Internet Traffic Internet traffic is the flow of data around the Internet. It includes web traffic, which is the amount of that data that is related to the World Wide Web, along with the traffic from other major uses of the Internet, such as electronic mail and peer-to-peer networks. 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