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Computone Corporation Announces Changes To Its Executive Management Team.


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ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 9, 2001

Computone Corporation (OTC OTC

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, announces several executive management changes.

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 Bebeau, Computone's president, has assumed the role of chief executive officer, replacing John Freitag John W. Freitag (born May 3, 1877 - died October 20, 1932) was an American rower who competed in the 1904 Summer Olympics.

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. Freitag remains the Chairman of the Board for Computone. Veteran IT industry executives Deborah Bailey and Leo Bebeau have been named to its Board of Directors. A new executive has been added to expand the depth of Computone's management team. Jack Smith has been appointed to the newly created position of executive vice president and chief technology officer.

E. Leo Bebeau brings back to Computone over twenty years TWENTY YEARS. The lapse of twenty years raises a presumption of certain facts, and after such a time, the party against whom the presumption has been raised, will be required to prove a negative to establish his rights.
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 of successful operations, marketing and finance experience. Bebeau has successfully founded and sold two technology companies. He held the position of vice president of operations and marketing at Computone from 1987 to 1992 and has been an independent consultant for companies in facilities design and management, home health care and medical accounting systems since 1992.

Deborah Bailey is qualified by over 20 years of professional experience with Big 5 Accounting, financial management and market development specializing in the technology industry. In addition, Bailey currently holds key leadership positions in technology and finance with Visionary Systems Inc., serving as chief financial officer and senior vice president.

Jack Smith spent eight years as executive vice president - business development and field sales operations with Syntax, Inc. Smith was responsible for sales, marketing, customer support and system engineering. Under his leadership, the company grew from 14 employees to 100 employees and from 1 million to 10 million in sales. Smith also held the position of director of technical services at Computone from 1983 to 1986, where he was responsible for customer support, sales and marketing for the serial I/O (Input/Output) The transfer of data between the CPU and a peripheral device. Every transfer is an output from one device and an input to another. See PC input/output.

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 division.

"I am pleased at the caliber of individuals we are introducing to Computone, both to our management team and our Board of Directors," said Mr. Freitag. "With their extensive industry knowledge and proven history of success in the technology arena, I am confident they will significantly contribute to our future growth plans."

Computone Corporation (OTC BB: CMPT)(www.computone.com) has been a pioneer and leader in the worldwide IT industry since 1984. Today, Computone designs, manufactures and markets a comprehensive line of intelligent servers used for secure remote network management, secure E-commerce, and remote access communications for Internet, LAN/WAN LAN/WAN Local Area Network/Wide Area Network  and Windows NT/SCO UNIX/Linux and other Open Systems. Based in suburban Atlanta, Computone sells through a worldwide network of authorized and certified distributors. Its Multi-User Solutions subsidiary, acquired earlier this year, is a leading third party provider of service and support specializing in Linux(R), SCO (The SCO Group, Lindon, UT, www.sco.com) A leading vendor of Unix operating systems for the x86 platform. SCO had also offered Linux, but abandoned the line in the spring of 2003. The SCO Group is the combination of two companies: Utah-based Caldera, Inc. (R) UNIX UNIX

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(R), Windows(R) NT, and other Open Systems.

This press release contains certain forward-looking statements within the meaning of section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. With the exception of historical information contained herein, the matters discussed in this press release involve risk and uncertainties. Actual results could differ materially from those expressed in any forward-looking statement.

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