Bleck Design Group Wins Bronze Award in Prominent Indusrial Design Competition

Business Wire, June 26, 2001

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NORTH CHELMSFORD, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 26, 2001

The 2001 Industrial Design and Excellence Awards, (IDEA) competition,

sponsored by IDSA and BusinessWeek Magazine

Bleck Design Group, a Massachusetts industrial design and engineering consulting firm, announced today that their design for Network Engines' Web Engine Product Family won a Bronze Award from the 2001 Industrial Design and Excellence Awards, (IDEA) competition, sponsored by IDSA and BusinessWeek Magazine. The competition winners will be announced in BusinessWeek Magazine this month.

Receiving an IDEA award is a unique distinction that brands your design as the very best in the business, among your peers, client, and customers. The design award winners were selected from over 1250 entries from many brilliant design firms worldwide.

"We are honored to receive this notable award," said Jim Bleck, President of Bleck Design Group. The WebEngine family's distinctive appearance provided Network Engines with a visual foundation upon which to build a corporate image. Users are given an immediate visual sign of the product's significant functional differences from general-purpose servers".

"We wanted an extremely distinctive appearance to give our products a unique image in the market. The goal was to separate the image of these devices from typical general application servers". Said Larry Genovesi, Founder and Chief Technology Officer at Network Engines, Inc.

WebEngine Product Family

The WebEngine family was a pioneer in the market for extremely high-density servers, measuring just 1U (1.75 inches) high. The WebEngine family is used by Web hosting and service providers, content delivery networks and large enterprises for delivering content via large, distributed Internet clusters. The compact design of Network Engines' WebEngine family is especially important for those customers who place their servers in co-location facilities where space is often at a premium and can be extremely expensive.

Bleck Design Group, founded in 1983, is a full-service industrial design and engineering consulting firm providing concept to production design services. All projects involve strategy, conceptual design, mechanical engineering and management through production. Bleck Design Group specializes in design for complex products and differentiating superior technology. Our projects include business equipment, telecommunications, network appliances, medical and consumer products. For more information, call 978.251.7474 x255, or visit our website at www.bleckdesigngroup.com

Network Engines (Nasdaq: NENG) provides high-density, scalable Internet server appliances that support large Web-based applications for web hosting and service providers, content infrastructure providers, application service providers and other e-commerce based businesses. The company was founded in 1997 and is based in Canton, Massachusetts. For more information, visit the company's Web site at www.networkengines.com.

Network Engines, the Network Engines logo, and WebEngine, are trademarks of Network Engines, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective holders.

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