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SAVAJE TECHNOLOGIES NAMES FORMER BSQUARE CHIEF TECHNOLOGIST AND VP 
PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT AS EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT OF PROFESSIONAL SERVICES

Industry Veteran Brings Extensive Technical and Management Experience 
with Embedded Systems and Information Appliances

NORTH CHELMSFORD, MA--September 18, 2001--SavaJe Technologies, the 
developer of the first and only operating system to provide the full 
Java(TM) 2 Platform, Standard Edition (J2SE(TM)) application environment 
on information appliances, announced today that its has appointed Jeff 
McLeman, 43, as executive vice president of professional services. In his 
new position, McLeman will lead OEM customer integration of the SavaJe XE 
operating system, product service and support. McLeman will head up 
SavaJe Technologies' new Seattle office, and will report to SavaJe 
Technologies, president and CEO, George Grey.

McLeman comes to SavaJe Technologies from BSQUARE Corporation (NASDAQ: 
BSQR) where he served as chief technologist and vice president of product 
development.

"We are delighted that Jeff has joined SavaJe to lead our professional 
services business unit," said Grey. "His unique technology and management 
background in the information appliance and embedded device markets makes 
him an ideal fit on our senior management team. Additionally, his 
extensive experience with the development and implementation of appliance 
operating systems is an especially valuable asset."

"At BSQUARE I witnessed first-hand the numerous challenges faced by 
companies as they strove to deploy operating systems on information 
appliances and embedded systems. Java solves many of these problems by 
enabling device manufacturers to tap into over three million Java 
developers and to develop applications that can run on every device," 
said McLeman. "I'm very excited to join SavaJe, which has the best 
platform for running Java on information appliances and embedded systems, 
and so can assist these companies in their deployment of advanced 
wireless applications."

Since 1996, Mr. McLeman served in numerous roles at BSQUARE, including 
corporate consulting engineer and director of engineering. He led the 
creation of the Embedded Systems Group at BSQUARE, and was instrumental 
in driving the market-leading technologies, products, and services that 
for which BSQUARE is known today.

Prior to his employment at BSQUARE, Mr. McLeman was vice president of 
engineering at Stellar One Corporation, a wireless systems engineer at 
McCaw Cellular's Wireless Data Division, and served in various 
engineering roles at Digital Equipment Corporation (now a part of Compaq) 
for 16 years.

About SavaJe Technologies
SavaJe Technologies has developed the world's first operating system that 
supports a full Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition for information 
appliances -- smart phones, PDAs, set-top boxes, web-pads, game consoles 
and internet appliances -- a market which is expected to grow from 34.8 
million units today to over 100 million by 2004. SavaJe is a privately 
held company headquartered in Massachusetts, with offices in Chicago IL, 
Seattle WA, and Cambridge, UK. For more information call +1-978-251-2901 
or visit www.savaje.com.

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