[ale] COMMERCIAL: LINUX CONTINUES MAINSTREAM ACCEPTANCE

[Howard Wood]

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Press contact:
Howard Wood
Indelible Blue Inc.
919-878-9700
howard at indelible-blue.com

LINUX CONTINUES MAINSTREAM ACCEPTANCE

Major Reseller Now Offers Pre-Loaded Linux Workstations

RALEIGH, NC -- February 9, 1999 -- One of the country's top marketers of
OS/2 hardware and software products
today introduced Atlas, a pre-loaded Linux workstation designed for
individuals and organizations that need a system
offering more stability and configurability than other popular operating
systems.

Indelible Blue, Inc., the country's #1 reseller of OS/2 and an IBM/Lotus
direct channel partner, broadened its Linux
selection today with the announcement of Atlas, a workstation pre-loaded
with Red Hat Linux version 5.2. The
workstation enhances Indelible Blue's continually growing line of
commercially available Linux application software and
development tools.

The name Atlas comes from the character in Greek mythology that carries the
 sky on his shoulders, representing great
strength and stability. Indelible Blue's system is designed to carry the
weight of most any computing task with the highest
degree of stability and performance. Preloaded with Red Hat Linux version
5.2, Atlas comes in a variety of Intel
processor and hard drive configurations (IDE and SCSI), and all models come
 standard with 128 megs of synchronous
DRAM, 40x CD-ROM, sound card, and an 8 meg Matrox Millenium video card.
Prices start at just under $1,300.

For businesses or individuals requiring more than one computing
environment, multiple operating system pre-loads are
available (Windows 98/Linux, Windows NT/Linux, and OS/2/Linux), leveraging
Indelible Blue's years of experience in
custom OS configurations.

Future Linux hardware plans include servers configured for specific duties
such as firewall and IP routing. Indelible Blue is
also considering pre-loading Linux on IBM ThinkPads as soon as additional
hardware support is available. More
information on Atlas is located at www.indelible-blue.com/hardware.

Better Platform, Better Performance

The addition of the Atlas workstation into Indelible Blue's Linux selection
 allows businesses of any size to easily target or
migrate systems to the Linux platform, and reap the undisputed benefits of
this flexible, powerful, scalable, and reliable
enterprise desktop and server operating system.

"Our goal with Atlas was to build a Linux system that is ready to run out
of the box. With Atlas, you can begin work
immediately instead of having to work on the operating system itself," says
 Buck Bohac, president of Indelible Blue, in
Raleigh, NC. "I also feel comfortable saying that we are probably the only
company offering OS/2 and Linux pre-loaded
on the same machine."

About Indelible Blue

Indelible Blue is the country's #1 OS/2 software and hardware supplier
offering buyers a true choice in their computing
solutions. Providing one-stop shopping and competitive pricing for
thousands of popular software titles and hardware
products, Indelible Blue specializes in solutions for OS/2, IBM/Lotus,
Linux, and Java.

Indelible Blue also builds custom configured hardware systems with
preloaded, pretested software configurations to meet
the most challenging specifications. Indelible Blue can be reached at
1-800-776-8284, or via e-mail at
sales at indelible-blue.com, or on the Web at www.indelible-blue.com.

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