LANovation Signs Partnership Agreements With Vendors in Germany, South Africa

Business Wire, June 27, 2000

Business Editors & Technology Writers

MINNEAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 27, 2000

LANovation's Award-Winning PictureTaker(R)Enterprise Edition

Called International Vendor's "Software Distribution Tool of Choice"

LANovation, a leader in enterprise software distribution solutions, announced today that it has signed partnership agreements with two new international software vendors, Optimal System-Beratung GmbH (Germany) and Diamond Network Technologies (South Africa).

OPTIMAL System-Beratung GmbH will sell the PictureTaker(TM) family of products to its clients in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland.

Diamond Network Technologies will represent the PictureTaker line of products in South Africa and Africa proper. According to Rhys Taylor, Sales & Marketing Director for Diamond Network Technology, "In researching a standalone Windows distribution application ... we found that PictureTaker was the best candidate to offer our clients."

PictureTaker Enterprise Edition 3.0 is recognized by industry experts as the leading software packaging utility available. PictureTaker's ease of use, smart variables, and full operability with Windows 2000 make it the "product of choice" for total enterprise software management solutions, says Taylor: "Besides being clean and easy to use, PictureTaker fits well into customers' existing desktop management solutions."

Companies who invest in PictureTaker 3.0 typically recover their costs in savings the very first time they use PictureTaker to roll out new or updated software. PictureTaker has already won nine industry awards from Internet Week, PC Week, InfoWorld, Windows 2000 Magazine, Network World, and Computer Technology Review.

OPTIMAL System-Beratung, a subsidiary of Eastman Software USA, delivers Knowledge-Management and Software Distribution tools for Microsoft Outlook and Microsoft Exchange. Currently, they are expanding their partner channel to over 300 partners spread throughout Europe.

Diamond Network Technologies focuses on providing enabling technology products to IT and Internet based markets, with both South Africa and the rest of the continent. They are also part of the Mustek group, the larges manufacturer, marketer, and distributors of Personal Computer, Data Processing and related products in South Africa and Africa.

LANovation is a leader at making complex technology simple. Since the company's founding in 1985, the corporate mission has remained the same: to make complex technology simple, provide unequaled customer support and to be a good corporate citizen. LANovation identifies practical opportunities in leading edge technology and brings them to reality. Customers include 3Com, Compaq, Hewlett Packard, IBM Corporation, Peoplesoft, and Toshiba. By choosing LANovation products and services, customers and partners gain significant competitive advantage... without sacrificing mission critical resources

Note to Editors: Evaluation (NFR) copies of PictureTaker Enterprise Edition 3.0 are available upon request. Contact Kristina Halvorson, Public Relations for LANovation, (612) 379-3805 ext. 120, fax: (612) 378-3818, e-mail: khalvorson@lanovation.com.

PictureTaker technology is patent pending.

PictureTaker is a registered trademark of LANovation. All other product and company names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies.