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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
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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.