AssetMetrix Prepares Customers Facing July 31 Microsoft Licensing 6.0 Transition; New LicenseTracker Service Provides Accurate Snapshot of Windows and Office Software in Hours.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

AssetMetrix Inc. (www.assetmetrix.com), the industry's leading provider of hosted inventory and IT asset management services, today announced the availability of LicenseTracker(TM), a special edition of the company's service offering. LicenseTracker was designed to assist customers who are striving to meet Microsoft(R) Corporation's (NASDAQ:MSFT) July 31 Licensing 6.0 program deadline, by providing a quick and accurate snapshot of a company's deployed software. With this information in hand, organizations and corporations will be better prepared for their negotiations with Microsoft.

In October 2001, Microsoft announced that its volume licensing customers have until July 31, 2002, to enrol their eligible existing licenses in Microsoft's Software Assurance or Upgrade Advantage programs (www.microsoft.com/licensing). Depending upon the type of software license they have and their projected business needs in the future, customers have the opportunity to save on their volume licensing costs if they enrol on or before July 31.

"July 31 looms as a critical date for customers to complete their negotiations with Microsoft, and the first step in establishing a negotiation strategy is to get an accurate count of these key licenses," said Paul Bodnoff, president of AssetMetrix. "Determining that you are in compliance with your current license agreement allows you to make licensing choices that make the best sense for your corporation."

"This deadline has already been extended twice and most likely will not be extended again," said Gartner analyst Alvin Park. "Clients who miss the July 31 deadline could pay up to 45 percent more for their licenses at their next upgrade cycle. Act now to ensure that your company can hang onto Select version 5 agreements one last time, upon which to purchase Upgrade Advantage or Software Assurance on existing licenses before July 31, 2002." Source: "Gartner Alerts Clients to Review Microsoft Software Licensing Agreements Now to Prepare for July 31, 2002 Deadline," May 21, 2002.

AssetMetrix's LicenseTracker rapidly generates a highly accurate software count across a company's entire PC environment. The service assists in quantifying and determining the various types of licenses - and potential licensing violations - of all versions of Microsoft Windows(R) and Microsoft Office.

At the core of AssetMetrix's service is a patent-pending inventory technology called the AssetAgent(TM), a less than 200kb download that automatically audits PCs via email, LAN or diskette. The AssetAgent collects over 250 data points from every PC it inventories, and identifies and categorizes over 78,000 software titles from over 12,000 vendors. A PC is typically inventoried in less than five seconds, and large enterprises can use AssetMetrix to gather hardware and software license data across the enterprise within hours. Unlike other applications that can only inventory LAN-based PCs, AssetMetrix is topology transparent, allowing corporations to inventory all of their mobile workforce, remote branch offices and LAN PCs.

"With AssetMetrix, a software audit can be available to you in hours - not days or weeks." said Mr. Bodnoff. "There are no servers to buy, databases to manage, software to deploy or people resources required. AssetMetrix's customers - whether they have 250 or 15,000 PCs - have successfully completed audits in a matter of hours with 'Zero Impact' on their time, infrastructure and internal resources."

LicenseTracker is available for purchase until July 31, 2002, at $2 per PC. For further information, visit www.assetmetrix.com/licensetracker. Customers of LicenseTracker can, at any time during their 30-day subscription period, upgrade LicenseTracker to one of AssetMetrix's full service subscriptions. Full subscriptions offer full data download, drill down to end-user specific data, asset management, and ServicePages(TM), a real-time change management system.

About AssetMetrix

AssetMetrix was established in 1999 by a group of IT asset management specialists and is headquartered in Canada's capital of Ottawa with US operations headquartered in Plano, Texas. AssetMetrix is the industry's first completely hosted PC inventory and lifecycle management solution that instantly and easily audits all software and hardware in a corporate MS-Windows environment (servers, desktops, notebooks and PocketPCs), regardless of location. For more information, please visit www.assetmetrix.com.

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