Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2000 12:38:27 +0100
To: Linbox Observers <jackie@ala.com>
From: Jackie Phillips <jackie@ala.com>
Subject: Linbox secures _2.5 million investment from Europ@Web and

Linbox secures _2.5 million investment from Europ@Web and Financière de Brienne


Paris, June 8, 2000 --Linbox, the inventor of Linbox Network Architecture
(LNA) and leading Linux Network Computer designer in Europe, announced
today that Europ@Web, the Internet industrial arm of Group Arnault, and
Financière de Brienne, have invested 2.5 million Euros (US$2.25M) in the
company.

Linbox will use these funds to develop its range of professional services
to schools, small organisations and corporate networks looking for an
affordable, easy-to-install, easy-to-maintain network computing solution
that is fully compatible with legacy applications and operating systems.
Linbox Network Architecture is an open approach to Linux Network Computing
based on diskless standard computers on the desktop side (such as the
Linbox Net Station), and full featured servers (such as the Linbox Net
Server).

"The Linbox Network Architecture allows users and systems integrators to
bring the power of Linux to the desktop at minimal costs while still
preserving user investments in Windows or MacOS software," said Jean Pierre
Laisné, CEO of Linbox. "Diskless Linbox Net Stations can be set up in a
matter of minutes by users with no previous skills in the Linux environment
and require no maintenance."

"We are really excited by this investment in Linbox," said Chahram
Becharat, Group Managing Director of Europ@Web. "The market out there is
looking for Linux-based thin technologies for desktop and servers that are
easy to use, easy to install and easy to maintain yet fully compatible with
a legacy environment. Linbox provides the market with desktop and server
appliances which are truly based on open source standards. Linbox systems
bridge the gap between legacy technologies and reliable operating systems
such as Linux. We were really impressed by Linbox technology and
implementation capabilities."

"Linbox not only provides plug-and-forget appliances for the desktop and
the network infrastructure. It has also succeeded in plugging a gap in the
marketplace by providing the missing tools that allow the seamless
implementation, in a matter of minutes, of Linux-based production servers
in large networks. For example, Linbox systems are at the heart of a system
linking 250 insurance offices world-wide, saving their customers time,
effort and budget," said Thierry Letailleur, CEO of Financière de Brienne.

"This investment enables Linbox to bring to market the next stage of its
business plan and provide industry-strength quality assurance and develop
wide-ranging partnerships," said Jean-Pierre Laisné. "We are pleased to
welcome our investors as real partners. Building on its existing
partnership with SuSE and Mandrake to develop the Linbox Network
Architecture, Linbox welcomes new partners to leverage the power of free /
open source software, to share the code, to accelerate technology transfers
and to provide customers with adequate service levels from trusted human
sources."

About Europ@Web
Europ@web is the Internet industrial arm of Group Arnault. Established in
mid-1999 with a capital injection of _500 million, Europ@web's mission is
to gather and manage Internet-related companies with strong growth
potential. In the US, Europ@web has taken strategic stakes in entities such
as Quios, Metamarkets, and Camdens. The European team of Europ@web
contributed to the creation of Liberty Surf, the free Internet access
provider, set up the financial portal Zebank and took a majority stake in
Aucland, one of the leading online auction sites in Europe. Europ@web is
integrating its long term strategic vision through majority or minority
stakes in companies such as WineandCo, Alafolie, Moonfruit and Netvalue.

About Financière de Brienne

Financière de Brienne is a venture capital company that invests in small
and medium high technology enterprises associated with the aerospace and
defence sectors (eg microelectonics, software). Financière de Brienne is
backed by networt of partners with a wealth of experience in technology
including the French Ministry ot Defence and large indistrial groups.

About Linbox SA
Linbox develops and markets a range of ready-to-deploy network solutions
for vertical markets. Linbox solutions offer ease of use, speed of
implementation and low-cost maintainability. Built around the company's
Linbox Network Architecture (LNA), the systems use Linux thin-server,
thin-client technology. The company has raised Euro 2.5 million from
investors Europ@web and Financière de Brienne. Linbox has offices &
research centres in France.


Media and Analyst Contacts:

Linbox SA
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	+44-1273 675100
Andrew Lloyd & Associates	Isabelle Jorge 	isabelle@ala.com
	+33-1 43 22 79 56


Europ@web
France	DGM	Michel Calzaroni / Olivier Labesse		+33 1 40 70
11 89
UK	Financial Dynamics	Hugh Morrison / Shirley-Anne Mc Andrew	+44
171 831 3113
US	Kekst and Company	James Fingeroth / Michael Freitag
	+1 212 521 48 00
Italy	D&C Financial Communication Fabio Raineri / Paola Di Raimondo	+39
02 43 81 141

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Linbox is a registered trademark of Linbox SA.
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MacOS is a registered trademark of Apple Inc.
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