Date: Fri, 02 Jun 2000 10:02:53 -0500
From: Greg Palmer 
Organization: LINUXFest 2000
To: 
Subject: LinuxFest adds  Vovida


Press Release
Please Hold Till June 4, 2000



              LinuxFest2000 adds Vovida Networks for June
                           Kansas City Event.

Vovida Networks, a Linux-based softswitch company, the global pioneer of
open source telephony, and the first company to release a full suit of
royalty free, open source VoIP protocols, has agreed to participate in
LinuxFest 2000,  which will be held June 20 through 24, 2000 in Overland
Park, Kansas  ( Suburban Kansas City).  The LinuxFest trade show will be
held at the Overland Park International Trade Center and feature over
60,000 square feet of trade show display space and a four day seminar
track.

Vovida will be demonstrating it’s softswitch solution, designed to
support the needs of next-generation carrier and Internet Service
Providers. Vovida's softswitch software allows Competitive Local
Exchange Carriers (CLECs), Inter Exchange Carriers (IXCs) and Integrated
Service Providers ISPs) to provide competitively priced local telephony
services to their enterprise and residential customers over converged
datacom and telecom networks. It also allows carriers and service
providers to selectively bundle advanced telephony features,
applications and services to competitively differentiate their product
offerings to end users.


"This will be a major technology event that will permit companies of all
sizes to see for themselves the benefits of the Linux(R)operating
system.", according to Greg Palmer, President of Mobius Marketing,
producer of LinuxFest, " LinuxFest will demonstrate the power of Linux
and Open Source Software for IT and business owners across the US and
specifically the heartland of
America."

Recent spectacular IPO's by Red Hat, VA Linux, Cobalt and Andover.net
have taken the stock market by storm and LinuxFest2000 will be the first
opportunity for the midwest to see what the excitement is all about.
Major well known companies like IBM, Compaq, Informix
and Oracle have committed to Linux, however most people are exposed to
Linux on a daily basis, because Linux powers much of the World Wide Web.
Most of the established major Linux companies will be represented  at
LinuxFest , plus many startup cutting edge companies will also be in
attendance.

For additional information contact:

Greg Palmer
Mobius Marketing
(785) 234 - 3226
www.linuxfest.net
greg@linuxfest.net


Stephen M. Anderson
Vovida Networks, Inc.
(408) 941-1790
www.vovida.com