New Moon Systems Broadens Market for Flagship Product Canaveral iQ; Version 1.5 Increases Thin-Client Support to Intelligent Alternative for Windows Applications Deployment.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

New Moon Systems Inc. continues to challenge Citrix Systems' market share by enhancing its easier-to-use, intelligent and cost-effective alternative for Windows application deployment and management. New Moon today announced the availability of New Moon Canaveral iQ version 1.5, a money-saving server-based computing software solution that enables system administrators to manage the complex relationships between end-users, application servers and centrally-hosted Windows applications.

New Moon Systems eases enterprise IT managers' burden by listening to their concerns and addressing their pain points. Based on this feedback, and its own heritage of data center management, New Moon focuses on providing a lean, complete software solution. New Moon Canaveral iQ is based on an IT managers' true needs and takes into account their often-limited budgets. New Moon Canaveral iQ has been enthusiastically embraced by customers domestically and internationally since its introduction last fall.

The release of New Moon Canaveral iQ version 1.5 represents an integral step in the product's evolution. While the software's unequalled simplicity and proven cost-effectiveness remain, version 1.5 continues to increase the value of the product by adding new features such as push-client install, desktop shortcuts and, most notable, automatic form population. Unlike New Moon Canaveral iQ's competitor, New Moon's solution automatically populates forms like drop-down server start menus to give IT managers a handy head-start on adding servers and deploying and upgrading applications. Also, version 1.5 broadens the available market for New Moon Canaveral iQ by supporting embedded NT and Windows CE devices on the client side. Enterprises can now save money by deploying Windows-based terminals with New Moon Canaveral iQ, protecting their original investments and expanding the thin-client computing market.

"New Moon Canaveral iQ removes the burden of manually deploying and managing our business-critical desktop applications," said Martyn Forbes, IT manager at UK-based IGS Services. "Now our IT team has more time to dedicate to other projects which significantly improves our bottom line. After comparing the product to its closest competitor in the market, we decided to deploy the New Moon product because it represents a superior value proposition for what we need. Canaveral iQ is so easy to roll out and administer, any one of our IT team members could step in and grab the wheel if necessary."

As enterprises grow and mature, IT environments change quickly. New Moon matches this pace by successively delivering bottom-line value to enterprise corporate IT customers. When employee count grows, for example, IT managers traditionally have to tediously load new client software and applications to individual desktops by hand. New Moon Canaveral iQ streamlines this whole process, giving the IT manager the power to centrally push the software to all user endpoints. Features like form population and browser-less application launch speak loudly to New Moon's overall business proposition: deliver functionality where it counts, and bypass unneeded feature creep, non-critical add-ons and complicated, arduous administration.

"Because New Moon Canaveral iQ saves enterprises time and money, and is more tailored to the customer's true needs than other options, we are seeing tremendous customer traction, both in the United States and internationally," said Max R. Herrmann, vice president of marketing and strategy of New Moon Systems. "As New Moon wins new customers and partners, our engineers remain steadfast in their pledge to further enhance the product's functionality to adapt to various platforms and environments."

New Moon Canaveral iQ version 1.5 supports application server farms running Windows 2000 or Windows NT server operating systems. It is available immediately from over 100 authorized New Moon resellers worldwide, either as a fully functional and upgradeable 5-user or 25-user starter pack.

About New Moon Systems

Founded in 1995, New Moon Systems is a software company that enables enterprises and service providers to centrally deliver and manage their software assets across hundreds and thousands of user desktops. The New Moon Canaveral iQ application management platform is used to intelligently deploy and manage Windows applications across private and public networks. The company is located in San Jose, California, and can be reached at 1-408-296-8500 (or 1-888-672-4866) or www.newmoon.com.