EBIZ Enterprises Partners With TurboLinux For New Server Line-Up; Available At Breakthrough Pricing Through TheLinuxStore.com, CNET.com and Egghead.com.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SCOTTSDALE, Ariz.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 16, 2000 EBIZ EBIZ Electronic Business Enterprises Inc. (OTC OTC See: Over-the-counter. OTC See over-the-counter market (OTC). BB: EBIZ) the leading source for Linux(R) products, technical support and community services Tursday announced the introduction of "L-Servers," its new line of network file servers pre-installed with TurboLinux 6.0. The L-Server line is designed with both the IT manager and financial manager's needs in mind: scalable, manageable, and affordable. In spirit with the Linux community's penguin mascot, "Tux" the L-Server line has been named after three penguin families. The three models are the L-Royal, L-King, and L-Emperor, beginning at $1,263. "The demand for Linux-based Servers continues to grow at a rapid pace," said Stephen Herman, president of EBIZ Enterprises. "We are excited to introduce our line of servers that not only meets today's demanding network requirements, but will grow with an organization's network needs." The servers will be available as "ReadyNow!", shippable same day, or can be customized to meet the organization's server requirements. "The decision to partner with TurboLinux on the server was easy," stated Jeffrey Rassas, chief executive officer and founder of EBIZ Enterprises. "TurboLinux is the leader in the overseas Linux server market, and is quickly gaining momentum in the United States. Its robust server package accentuates L-Servers mission for scalability and manageability." "TurboLinux is focused on developing business solutions for the enterprise," said Cliff Miller, 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 TurboLinux. "We are pleased to partner with TheLinuxStore.com to provide customers with Linux servers that are optimized for high performance." About EBIZ Enterprises Inc. -- www.TheLinuxStore.com www.TheLinuxLab.com www.LinuxWired.net TheLinuxStore.com, TheLinuxLab.com and LinuxWired.net are wholly owned divisions of EBIZ Enterprises Inc. -- a publicly-traded company, located in Scottsdale. TheLinuxStore.com is the leading source in the Linux(R) market, providing a complete line of Linux-based product solutions, community resources, services, and technical support. TheLinuxStore.com is the one stop destination for "Everything Linux." LinuxWired.net is a full service community portal and includes the first "Pure" Linux-based ISP (1) See in-system programmable. (2) (Internet Service Provider) An organization that provides access to the Internet. Connection to the user is provided via dial-up, ISDN, cable, DSL and T1/T3 lines. . It provides a host of Internet portal features including news, content, message boards, collaborative developer workspace and free services such as e-mail forwarding, home page-redirect and a job posting service. TheLinuxLab.com is an interactive destination that provides technical support to Linux users. With over 1,800 registered Linux experts available 24 hours a day -- no question goes unanswered. About TurboLinux Inc. Founded in 1992, TurboLinux is the world's fastest-growing Linux company with investment backing from more than 20 global hardware, software and services companies, including BEA BEA - Basic programming Environment for interactive-graphical Applications, from Siemens-Nixdorf. , Compaq, Dell, Intel, Fujitsu Support and Services, NEC (NEC Corporation, Tokyo, www.nec.com, www.necus.com) An electronics conglomerate known in the U.S. for its monitors. In Japan, it had the lion's share of the PC market until the late 1990s (see PC 98). NEC was founded in Tokyo in 1899 as Nippon Electric Company, Ltd. , Novell, 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. and Toshiba. A market leader in Linux software clustering solutions and Linux internationalization The support for monetary values, time and date for countries around the world. It also embraces the use of native characters and symbols in the different alphabets. See localization, i18n, Unicode and IDN. internationalization - internationalisation , the company's high-performance consumer and business Linux products run on Intel, Alpha and PowerPC workstation and server platforms and are supported globally by IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , Hewlett-Packard and SCO. Headquartered in San Francisco, TurboLinux has offices in Hamburg, Tokyo, Beijing and Sydney. The company's home page is located on the Internet at www.turbolinux.com, in Japanese at www.turbolinux.co.jp and in Chinese at www.turbolinux.com.cn. About Linux Linux is an open source operating system that was developed in 1991 by Linus Torvalds. With a growth rate of 212 percent in 1998 and 17 percent market share in the server market, Linux is fast becoming the leading choice for organizations looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. a more robust and reliable alternative to the Microsoft dominance in operating systems. Linux is noted for its extremely low maintenance cost and stability. The Linux platform is known as a "non-crashing" operating system. The statements in this press release may contain forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Exchange Act of 1934 and are subject to the safe harbor Safe Harbor 1. A legal provision to reduce or eliminate liability as long as good faith is demonstrated. 2. A form of shark repellent implemented by a target company acquiring a business that is so poorly regulated that the target itself is less attractive. created by these sections. Actual results could differ materially from those described herein as a result of certain factors and circumstances. (c)2000, EBIZ Enterprises Inc. TheLinuxStore.com, TheLinuxLab.com and LinuxWired.net are wholly-owned divisions of EBIZ Enterprises Inc. PIA pi·a n. The pia mater. pi  al adj. and Element-L Systems are trademarks of EBIZ Enterprises Inc. Linux is a trademark of Linus Torvalds. TurboLinux is a trademark of TurboLinux Inc. All other names and trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
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