Marathon Technologies Partners with Warranty Plus Service Center to Deliver Low Cost High Availability for Windows Servers

Business Wire, July 13, 2004

BOXBOROUGH, Mass. -- Marathon Technologies Corporation, the only developer and supplier of fault- and disaster-tolerant solutions for industry standard Microsoft(R) Windows(R) environments, has partnered with Warranty Plus-a leading provider of HP services and fault-tolerant solutions to state and local government agencies-to offer simple, cost-effective high availability for Windows servers. The partnership will enable Warranty Plus to offer industry standard Windows servers configured with Marathon FTvirtual Server(TM) software for simple, affordable continuous uptime.

"We are pleased to be working with Warranty Plus," said George C. Tranos, President and CEO of Marathon Technologies. "This partnership will allow us to meet the growing need in the public sector for the highest levels of Windows server availability at the lowest price."

"Marathon FTvirtual Server(TM) software is an important product for governmental agencies who typically have limited IT resources, no tolerance for downtime, and stringent disaster tolerance requirements," said Rick McLaughlin, President, Warranty Plus Service Center. "With this product, our customers can protect their most cost-sensitive servers and blades from downtime and associated data loss."

About Warranty Plus

Warranty Plus has been providing state and local government and private enterprises with the highest level of solutions and service to enable the continuous uptime of mission critical servers and applications for more than 14 years. Warranty Plus' partnership with HP provides the technology and our new relationship with Marathon Technologies provides the Windows operating system stability to offer a truly reliable solution to our customers.

About Marathon Technologies

Marathon Technologies Corporation (www.marathontechnologies.com) is the leading provider of software that delivers simple, cost-effective, continuous uptime for Intel based servers. Marathon FTvirtual Server software product line unites two unmodified industry-standard servers into a single, fully redundant configuration that appears to applications, networks, OS, and system administrators as a single fault tolerant server. Marathon software keeps applications running non-stop through failures and disasters with no failover or interruption in service with no loss of application data, no need for transaction rollback, and no loss of performance. Marathon is a privately held, venture-backed corporation based in Boxborough, Massachusetts, USA, with offices worldwide. For more information, call 1-978-266-9999 or 1-888-682-1142.

Marathon and Marathon FTvirtual Server are trademarks or registered trademarks of Marathon Technologies Corporation. All other trademarks and registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners. (C)2004 Marathon Technologies Corporation.