Bristol Technology Joins Project Monterey Initiative; ISV Views Monterey as Future of UNIX on IA-64.

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DANBURY, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 12, 2000

Bristol Technology today announced that it has joined Project Monterey, a UNIX operating system initiative led by IBM, along with SCO, Intel and other industry leaders.

Bristol also announced that it is "Monterey-ready," meeting several criteria to port its applications to the Project Monterey UNIX operating system for Intel IA-64 processors (code-named Monterey/64).

By porting to Project Monterey, Bristol -- in cooperation with the founding members of the initiative -- ensures that its operating code conforms to the criteria established by the initiative. This allows Bristol, and other participants, to support the multiple architectures of the Project Monterey product line with a single source code.

"We are committed to providing our customers with the next generation of enterprise-ready UNIX technology," said Chane Cullens, president of Bristol Technology. "Through Project Monterey, we are taking part in that revolution and rewarding our loyal customers by helping them participate in a more open world of computing."

The Bristol applications expected to be ported to Project Monterey include:

-- Wind/U A set of library and utilities that enable users to create native UNIX, OpenVMS and OS/390 applications across many platforms.

-- HyperHelp(tm): A feature-rich online help development kit for UNIX and

OpenVMS, allowing users to quickly and easily add a powerful hypertext help system to their applications.

-- XPrinter(tm): The fastest, most complete UNIX development solution for adding powerful printing capabilities to graphical C and C++ applications.

"We are very excited that Bristol Technology has seen the future of UNIX and recognized that it is called Project Monterey," said Miles Barel, IBM program director for UNIX marketing. "We are committed to providing the most scalable, flexible and unified UNIX for all of Bristol's mission-critical applications, just as we are to the rest of our quickly expanding list of ISV participants."

"Project Monterey is the future of operating systems and we are gaining an advantage over non-participating competitors by being able to launch our products with early access to Project Monterey," Cullens said. "Project Monterey will be as great a success for us as is AIX, IBM's award-winning UNIX version, which continues to be a very strong platform for our customer base."

This past year, the Project Monterey initiative has garnered support from nearly all major ISVs in the e-business, business intelligence and enterprise resource planning business segments, and it has become the first mission-critical UNIX operating system to run on the Itanium microprocessor.

About Bristol

Bristol Technology Inc. was founded in 1991 with the mission of providing efficient, cost-effective solutions for Windows-to-UNIX cross-platform development. The market for Bristol's technology includes Windows and UNIX software vendors, client/server tool companies, and in-house application developers in corporations and financial services companies that need to deliver Windows applications on UNIX workstations. In addition to the tools mentioned above, Bristol's products include Tributary(tm), a new software integration product, and JprinterO(tm), a WYSIWYG network printing system for Java.

Bristol is a privately-held company, headquartered in Danbury, Conn., and has a European subsidiary in Amersfoort, The Netherlands and a development center in Bangalore, India. It began selling its products in January 1992 and was profitable in the same year. In 1993, Bristol was recognized for having the highest 1993 revenue growth of any Connecticut-based high technology company. In 1997, Bristol was listed on Soft-Letter's Soft-Letter 100 and Software Magazine's 1997 Software 500, both of which rank software companies based on revenue. The Connecticut Technology Council and Deloitte & Touche LLP named Bristol to the Connecticut Fast 50, recognizing it as the fastest-growing technology company in the state. Bristol was also listed on the 1997 Inc. 500, which lists the fastest-growing privately held companies in America. For more information, please visit Bristol's home page: http://www.bristol.com.

Project Monterey Background

Announced in October 1998, Project Monterey is a major UNIX operating system initiative led by IBM, along with SCO and Intel. The objective of the Project Monterey initiative is to establish a volume, enterprise-class UNIX product line that runs across Intel IA-32 and IA-64 processors and IBM's POWER processors in systems that range from departmental to large data center servers. As part of this Project Monterey initiative, a volume enterprise-class UNIX operating system (code-named Monterey/64) is being developed for Intel's IA-64 processors using technologies from IBM's AIX and NUMA-Q and SCO UnixWare.

Additional information on IBM and UNIX can be found at www.ibm.com/servers/aix.

For more information on Project Monterey, please visit: IBM: www.ibm.com/servers/monterey SCO: www.sco.com/monterey (SCO's trading symbol is SCOC)

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