Press Release:

Bynari Systems Group and MandrakeSoft Sign Agreement to Provide Support
Services for MandrakeSoft in North America.


Contact:
Caroline Carmagnol  President
 Alize Public Relations
 <caroline@alizepr.com
Work: 650.3231607
Fax: 650.324.2594



Jacques Le Marois <lemarois@mandrakesoft.com>
 MandrakeSoft    Phone: 1-4141-0041

 Nicolas Donovan, Bynari, Inc.<nick@bynari.net>
Phone 1-800-241-1086
Pasadena Office - 329 W. Altadena Dr - Altadena, CA 91001 - USA
   Paris Office - 43 rue d'Aboukir - 75002 Paris -  France
   Aachen Office - Lothringer Strasse 58 - 52070 Aachen -    Germany



Dateline Dallas, TX August 17th, 1999.  MandrakeSoft SA, publisher of
the popular Linux-Mandrake, announced today the selection of Bynari
Systems Group to provide Mandrake?s customers in North America with
complete support services.  The parties signed the agreement at Linux
World Expo, San Jose, where Mandrake won the LinuxWorld Editors? Choice
Awards for Product of the Year and Distribution/Server.  Many analysts
consider MandrakeSoft the new Up-and-Comer in the Linux Market.  Besides
winning the Best Linux Product of the Year, major Linux retailers report
Mandrake 6.0 as the best selling boxed version in the market.
Bynari Systems Group operates an extensive Linux call center supporting
businesses in 18 North American markets. Their offerings include
standard support services, pay-per-incident and level II and III phone
and site support.  Analysts consider Bynari, a premier Linux consulting
organization,  one of the community?s better kept secrets.  The Bynari
Group features Linux code contributors, enterprise specialists in SAP,
Oracle, and IBM eBusiness products. Bynari?s coming release of its Linux
enterprise client for Microsoft Exchange may speed corporate adoption of
Linux on the desktop.
?Bynari brings more to the table than a simple call center,?  said
Daniel Morales, CEO, MandrakeSoft. ? Bynari?s consultants contribute
threading architecture for large scale clustering and enterprise
solutions.  They also have some very savvy Oracle, SAP, and Corba
experts in their group.??
Mandrake 6.0 won the LinuxWorld Editors Product of the Year Award which
is recognized as the most prestigious reward within the Linux
community.  The judges also granted MandrakeSoft the Linux
Distribution/Server Award, recognizing its foundation as offering the
best file, print, Web, e-mail, gateway, database, and other network
services.

About MandrakeSoft:
Founded in 1998, MandrakeSoft publishes the popular Linux Mandrake
operating system, which is compatible with the leading Red Hat Linux®
distribution. Linux Mandrake 6.0 features the ?Mandrake touch?
MandrakeSoft?s signature graphical interfaces that give users selected
desktop icons including easy CD-ROM and floppy disk access and easy
Internet upgrades using the ?Mandrake Update? icon.
Linux Mandrake also features Pentium optimization, scalable font support
and KDE/Gnome integration. MandrakeSoft is also the originator of
several other innovative Open Source cooperative projects that focus on
ease of use, including Lothar, an automatic hardware configuration,
Linux4Windows, which allows users to install and use Linux on top of a
Windows partition, and the DiskDrake hard-drive partitioning tool.
MandrakeSoft is headquartered in both the US and Europe (France), with
offices in Germany.

Bynari, Inc. http://www.bynari.com
MandrakeSoft SA http://www.linux-mandrake.com