Softricity Customer, Northeastern University, Honored With Computerworld's ''Best Practices in Enterprise Management'' Award; Recognized for ''Innovation and Promise'' for Using Softricity Desktop Virtualization Platform

Business Wire, Sept 28, 2005

BOSTON -- Softricity(R) today announced that longstanding customer, Northeastern University, has been honored by Enterprise Management World -- a conference co-owned by IDG's Computerworld and the Distributed Management Task Force -- as a recipient of the "Best Practices in Enterprise Management" award. Northeastern University was recognized in the Innovation and Promise category for its use of Softricity's desktop virtualization solution.

"This award is testament to the success Northeastern has had in continuously leveraging cutting-edge technologies to meet their growing, diverse needs," said Harry Ruda, CEO, Softricity. "Northeastern's use of our application virtualization solution will help thousands of students, faculty and staff gain instant access to any applications they need whenever and wherever they need them, while minimizing IT costs. We're pleased their innovative implementation has been recognized by such a knowledgeable body."

"We're honored to be recognized by Computerworld for this prestigious award," said Rick Mickool, executive director of information services at Northeastern. "It demonstrates how the tangible benefits we're deriving from Softricity's solution are relevant for enterprises regardless of industry."

Northeastern University began working with Softricity to solve its application deployment and multi-versioning issues, and enable its IT department to quickly and easily service the latest applications. Since installing the Softricity solution as part of its Northeastern On-Demand initiative, Northeastern University has also been able to:

--Efficiently support classroom labs used by different professors and students, and manage last-minute classroom application requests;

--Deliver the same level of application services to remote campuses without IT staff visiting the campuses;

--Significantly reduce the lengthy and difficult process of deploying, updating, supporting and terminating applications across the University; and

--Optimize business continuity and help ensure user uptime.

The Softricity Desktop transforms enterprise computing by making software as instantly available and easy to use as electricity. Using patented Softricity technology, including application virtualization and on-demand application delivery, it changes applications into network services that no longer need to be installed. The result is a highly scalable software environment that is securely deployed, managed and immediately available anywhere in the world at a fraction of traditional IT investments - delivering improved business agility and a superior end-user desktop experience.

"Recipients of this year's 'Best Practices in Enterprise Management' awards were chosen from entries submitted by a range of well-known organizations," said Ron Milton, executive vice president, Computerworld. "Those that were chosen have demonstrated exceptional innovation and should be viewed as models due to their successful implementation of enterprise management within the enterprise."

Northeastern's use of Softricity has also recently been honored by awards presented by CIO Magazine and Campus Technology.

About Northeastern:

Northeastern University, located in the heart of Boston, Massachusetts, is a world leader in practice-oriented education and recognized for its expert faculty and first-rate academic and research facilities. Northeastern integrates challenging liberal arts and professional studies with the nation's largest cooperative education program. Through co-op, Northeastern undergraduates alternate semesters of full-time study with semesters of paid work in fields relevant to their professional interests and major, giving them nearly two years of professional experience upon graduation. The majority of Northeastern graduates receive a job offer from a co-op employer. Cited for excellence four years running by U.S. News & World Report, Northeastern has quickly moved up into the top tier rankings-an impressive 35 spots in four years. In addition, Northeastern was named a top college in the 2006 edition of the Princeton Review's annual "Best Colleges" issue. For more information, please visit http://www.northeastern.edu.

About Softricity:

Softricity enables software to be as instantly available and as easy to use as electricity by transforming applications into network services that no longer need to be installed. The Softricity Desktop provides a software environment that can be securely deployed, managed and immediately available anywhere in the world at a fraction of traditional IT investments - while dramatically improving business agility and delivering a superior end-user experience. Powered by the SoftGrid(R) Platform & Softricity ZeroTouch, The Softricity Desktop employs the company's patented application virtualization intelligent on-demand delivery and policy-based management technologies to save enterprises over 80% in application management costs, 30% in help desk costs and realize a four-fold increase in user up-time. Global customers include AIG, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Northeastern University, Prudential, Raytheon, sanofi-aventis and Suncor Energy. Softricity is a partner with Microsoft (Gold Certified), IBM, HP and VMware. For more information visit http://www.softricity.com.