Asera Co-Founder and Chairman of the Board to Keynote at InfoWorld's CTO Forum 2002

Business Wire, April 9, 2002

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

InfoWorld CTO Forum 2002

BELMONT, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 9, 2002

Asera, Inc. today announced that Vinod Khosla, co-founder and chairman of the board at Asera, will deliver a keynote address at the InfoWorld CTO Forum 2002. The event will be held at the Westin St. Francis Hotel in San Francisco April 8-10, 2002.

Khosla will be delivering his keynote address on Tuesday, April 9 at 9:00 a.m. to 250 of the country's leading CTOs attending the InfoWorld CTO Forum. Khosla's address will discuss real-time enterprises and the continuous migration approach for today's enterprises.

Additionally, Asera announced a new white paper report entitled "Real Time Enterprises -- A Continuous Migration Approach," written by Khosla and Murugan Pal, founding engineer at Asera.

Vinod Khosla was a co-founder of Daisy Systems and founding chief executive officer of Sun Microsystems where he pioneered open systems and commercial RISC processors. Khosla has been a general partner of venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers since 1986.

Khosla serves on the boards of Asera, Centrata, Juniper Networks, Nanotectonica, Redback, QWEST Communications, Zambeel, Zaplet and Zepton.

Khosla holds a Bachelor of Technology in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology in New Delhi, a Master's in Biomedical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University and a MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

InfoWorld CTO Forum 2002

The third annual InfoWorld CTO Forum 2002 is an exclusive, invitation-only event for 250 CTOs and high-level executives. The industry's best and brightest minds will convene in an interactive peer-to-peer setting. The InfoWorld CTO Forum 2002 takes place at the Westin St. Francis Hotel in San Francisco on April 8 - 10, 2002, for 2 1/2 days of networking, keynotes, panels, practical discussions and working sessions.

About Asera, Inc.

Asera provides Global 2000 and emerging, real-time enterprises with world-class commerce, supply chain and eMarketplace solutions. Asera allows companies to customize best-in-class software applications, implement their business processes rapidly, and remain insulated from the cost and complexity of technology change. Based in Silicon Valley, Asera also has offices in the UK, Germany and India. Asera can be found on the Web at http://www.asera.com.

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