SEC Ruling Clears Future for Computone.

Business Editors

ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 12, 2000

Computone Corporation (OTC BB: CMPT) announced final settlement of the Securities and Exchange Commission complaint filed last Fall, allowing the pioneer in IT connectivity and remote access communications to "move into the future unencumbered by problems and litigation brought on by previous management."

"We are glad the seven-year-old SEC saga has ended," Perry Pickerign, president and CEO of Computone. "The SEC investigation was the last of several obstacles left by prior management. Today, Computone has great products, an outstanding and dedicated team of professionals, and an attractive and growing market. Now that this cloud created and left behind by prior management -- none of whom remain with the company -- has been lifted, the future looks very bright, indeed."

Pickerign said the ruling allows Computone's management team to focus on what is best for the company, its employees and its shareholders without restrictions, including, he said "the important step of applying for relisting on the NASDAQ.

Pickerign attributed the company's on-going progress to its growing line of leading-edge products, accelerated use of Linux -- with Computone product drivers incorporated in the Linux kernel source code base, a newly-signed international distribution agreement with Ingram Micro, and introduction of Computone's RAS(R) 2000 "Out of Band" Console Management Solution, providing secure data transmission via the Internet and in e-commerce, now being adopted by top technology firms.

"Working with Ingram Micro (see "Computone Signs International Distribution Agreement with Ingram Micro," Business Wire, February 17, 2000) is particularly exciting," said Pickerign, "as we leverage its network of more than 140,000 resellers around the world." Pickerign also said that Computone is "the forefront in performance and efficiency with an expanded product line" featuring new IntelliServer(TM) intelligent servers, including the RAS 2000 family of remote access servers, and the Gold Card RS-232 serial PCI controllers, with Linux device drivers.

Clearly," he said, "we have laid the foundation for a brighter future."

A pioneer and leader in the worldwide IT industry since 1984, Computone Corporation (OTC BB: CMPT, www.computone.com) designs, manufactures and markets a comprehensive line of remote access communications servers for Internet, LAN/WAN and Windows NT/SCO UNIX/Linux and other Open Systems. Computone is also a leading producer of high-speed multiport I/O boards, serving vertical markets including healthcare, retail/point-of-sale, banking and financial, telecommunications, Internet service providers (ISPs), transportation, hospitality and education. Based in the Atlanta suburb of Alpharetta, Computone sells through a worldwide network of authorized and certified distributors. For the first nine months of fiscal 2000, ended December 31, 1999, Computone reported an increase of 29% in net sales over the same period in fiscal 1999.

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