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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 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. ZING PUBLIC RELATIONS Tim Cox tim@zingpr.com +1 650.369.7784 OFFICE +1 650.888.6116 MOBILE