Marathon Technologies Partners with AFS; Marathon FTvirtual Server Software Enables Simple, Affordable Continuous Uptime for Windows Environment

Business Wire, April 4, 2005

BOXBOROUGH, Mass. -- Marathon Technologies Corporation, the only developer and supplier of fault- and disaster-tolerant solutions for industry-standard Microsoft(R) Windows(R) environments, announced today that it has signed a strategic partnership agreement with Advanced Financial Solutions (AFS), a Metavante company and leading provider of image-enabled payment processing solutions to the financial services industry. Through this agreement, AFS will sell Marathon FTvirtual Server(TM) software product line to meet its customers' needs for simple, affordable, continuously available Windows servers.

"AFS continues to set the pace for payment processing with an innovative, highly regarded product line," said Gary Nelson, President, Advanced Financial Solutions. "Our partnership with Marathon enables us to further differentiate ourselves by delivering our innovative solutions in a highly available, fault and disaster tolerant configuration."

"We are pleased to be partnering with AFS to make our product available to their well-established customer base in the financial services industry," said George C. Tranos, President and CEO of Marathon Technologies.

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 Windows business continuity (99.999 % available) solution that appears to applications, networks, OS, and system administrators as a single fault tolerant server. Marathon software keeps applications running nonstop 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.

About AFS Inc.

Advanced Financial Solutions (AFS) (www.advancedfinancialsolutions.com) a Metavante company, provides global leadership in all forms of image-based payment processing solutions. AFS check imaging, check archival, remittance, document processing, Internet, and ASP-based solutions enable organizations across all the markets that AFS serves -- banking, insurance, energy, transportation, credit, and government operations -- to process payments, transactions, and documents at peak efficiency and profitability. For more information, call toll-free 800-554-8095 or 405-787-1800.

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)2005 Marathon Technologies Corporation. All rights reserved.