Date: Wed, 01 Dec 1999 16:55:23 -0800 From: Caroline Carmagnol <caroline@alizepr.com> To: caroline@alizepr.com Subject: MandrakeSoft and Bittco (Canada)makes Web Search easier for Linux Users Bittco Announces Support for Linux-Mandrake Neural Net Web Search Agent Now Available for Home and Office PC Linux Users Pasadena, California, December 2 1999 – Bittco Solutions of Alberta, Canada, today announced that its NetReality™ search agent is now available for the popular Linux-Mandrake™ operating system from MandrakeSoft. NetReality™ is considered the most advanced commercial software tool for searching and visualizing the Web. “Linux-Mandrake from MandrakeSoft is the most popular retail version of Linux on the market,” said Dean Bittner, Managing Director of Bittco Solutions. “MandrakeSoft shares our common goal of delivering high-value, world-class software to the Linux community. Our partnering ensures that the largest consumer audience possible has access to low-cost, high-powered software like NetReality™.” “Our mission is to support an easy-to-use Linux universe for home and office newcomers from the Windows world,” said Daniel Morales, CEO of MandrakeSoft. “The arrival of a visually stunning and powerful personal search agent such as NetReality™ makes Mandrake-Linux that much more enticing.” NetReality™ is for anyone who searches the Web -- including home users and business professionals, as well as knowledge and intelligence workers. It analyzes and organizes Web sites, searching with unique neural-net technology and presenting the results in a dynamic, virtual reality that makes it easier and quicker to find relevant Web documents than ever before. NetReality™ is a new kind of technology that Bittco calls “neuralVR™”, which applies sophisticated machine intelligence to make information easy to find and use. It is based on a platform technology that actually understands the meaning of documents. NetReality™ marks the first in a series of products that Bittco is developing and delivering through innovative partnerships. About Bittco: Bittco Solutions has dedicated itself to the digital information revolution for the past 10 years. Bittco licenses its neuralVR™ technology to third parties for inclusion in products like web servers, browsers, search engines, document management solutions, news readers, and email. Bittco is based in the Advanced Technology Center of the Research Park in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. NetReality™ is available for immediate sale and download from Bittco's Web site at http://www.bittco.com. About Linux-Mandrake Linux-Mandrake is an easy-to-use Linux operating system. This version of Linux for the desktop is appropriate for home or office use, as well as server use. Linux-Mandrake secured two awards at LinuxWorld Expo in August 99 for Best Product of the Year and Best Linux Distribution/Server, and was a finalist for the Linux Distribution/Client Award. According to PC Data, Linux-Mandrake was ranked number one selling Linux product in retail store in July and August via the Macmillan edition. According to PC Data, Linux-Mandrake was ranked number one selling Linux product in retail store in July and August via the Macmillan edition. About MandrakeSoft Founded on the Internet in 1998, MandrakeSoft publishes the user-friendly and popular open-source Linux Mandrake operating system. MandrakeSoft is headquartered in both France and the US, with offices in Germany. Through its strategic partnership with MacMillan, Linux-Mandrake maintains thousands of contributors around the world. MandrakeSoft is the originator of several other innovative Open Source cooperative projects that focus on ease-of-use, including Lothar, an automatic hardware configuration, which allows users to install and use Linux directly on top of a Windows directory, the DiskDrake hard-drive partitioning tool, and Panoramix, a new graphical interface. For more information on Linux-Mandrake and additional products, please visit us at http://www.linux-mandrake.com # # # Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds. Mandrake and Linux-Mandrake are trademarks of MandrakeSoft . All other trademarks and copyrights are owned by their respective companies. NetReality and neuralVR are trademarks of Bittco. All other trademarks or registered trademarks are property of their respective companies.