From: Jennifer Finlinson <jennifer@lineo.com>
Subject: Lineo Receives $37 Million in Investments
Date: Mon, 1 May 2000 15:41:00
To: lwn@lwn.net


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE


LINEO RECEIVES $37 MILLION IN INVESTMENTS

Investors Include Industry's Leading Companies 

LINDON, UTAH - May 1, 2000 - Lineo™, Inc., a leading developer of embedded
Linux® system software™, today announced the receipt of $37 million in
investment money, mostly from strategic investors. The investment dollars
are targeted at continuing to build the embedded Linux market.

Among the investors are the following: 
Access 						http://www.access.co.jp
Acer Group					http://www.acer.com
Arima						http://www.arimacorp.com
Astoria Capital Partners, LP
Citrix Systems, Inc.				http://www.citrix.com
Compal Electronics, Inc.				http://www.compal.com
DaiShin Information & Communications Co., LTD	http://www.dsis.co.kr
Egan Managed Capital				http://www.egancapital.com
First International Computer (FIC)			http://www.fic.com.tw
Global Alliance					http://www.g-alliance.co.jp
J & W Seligman & Company			http://www.jwseligman.com
Hikari Tsushin    					http://www.hikari.co.jp/
MITAC International Corporation			http://www.mitac.com.tw
Mistubishi 					http://www.mitsubishi.com.
Motorola					http://www.motorola.com
Samsung 					http://www.sem.samsung.com

About Lineo, Inc.
Lineo™, Inc. develops, markets and sells embedded Linux system software
and applications that provide OEMs and consumers with simple, low-cost
software for interacting with the Internet via embedded devices. Lineo
owns the Embedix™ product family including Embedix Linux, Embedix SDK
and Embedix Browser. Lineo also owns other technologies designed to improve
connectivity while reducing system requirements and per-unit costs. Visit
Lineo, Inc. at www.lineo.com. For more information, contact Lineo, Inc.
via e-mail: info@lineo.com or telephone: (801) 426-5001.
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