From: rhett <rhett@lineo.com>
Subject: Sun sales executive heads new Lineo sales organization
Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 9:29:00
To: lwn@lwn.net


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE


SUN SALES EXECUTIVE HEADS NEW LINEO SALES ORGANIZATION

Lineo Gains Richard Larsen from Sun, John Mezinko from Wind River and
Paul Ray from ISI

LINDON, Utah - Oct. 16, 2000 - Lineo™, Inc., a leading innovator in
Linux-based embedded systems, real-time and high availability solutions,
today announced the appointment of Richard Larsen as the senior vice
president of Lineo's worldwide sales operations. Effective immediately,
Larsen assumes responsibility for the company's overall sales strategy to
corporate accounts, OEMs, resellers, systems integrators, service providers
and end users. Larsen will be part of the company's executive staff and
will report directly to company CEO Bryan Sparks.

Lineo today also announced the appointment of John Mezinko as vice president
of Americas sales and Paul Ray as director of worldwide product sales.
Mezinko and Ray join Lineo's current sales team which also includes Hamid
Mirab, vice president of sales in Europe, Irrana Huang, vice president
of sales in Asia, and David Reeves, director of corporate strategic accounts.
 

"We're fortunate to attract the sales leadership of Richard Larsen, John
Mezinko and Paul Ray," said Bryan Sparks, CEO of Lineo, Inc. "These seasoned
professionals will help Lineo compete more aggressively on a worldwide
basis and advance Lineo's position in the embedded solutions market."


Larsen brings to Lineo more than 22 years of high-tech industry sales
experience, most recently spending seven years as sales director with
Sun Microsystems. While at Sun, Larsen directed the software sales
organization and had responsibility for sales management, business
development and strategic accounts. Now with Lineo, Larsen will have
responsibilities for managing the company's worldwide sales organization,
integrating Lineo's product lines through several channels of distribution
and building a successful worldwide sales model.

Mezinko, a veteran of the high tech industry, brings to Lineo nearly 28
years of sales management experience, including sales positions with NCR,
Integrated Systems, Inc., and most recently Wind River. While at Wind
River, Mezinko was a director of sales and was responsible for the development
tools group. Prior to Wind River's acquisition of Integrated Systems,
Inc., he was vice president of sales for the development tools division.
Mezinko's career background includes sales, sales management and strategic
account development. At Lineo, Mezinko will be responsible for building
a geographically diverse sales organization and maintaining strong
relationships with strategic accounts.

Ray joins Lineo after 19 years of experience in the embedded software
market including Integrated Systems (now Wind River), Epilogue Technology,
Systems & Software, Green Hills and OASYS. His background has been focused
on sales, sales management and business development. His responsibilities
at Lineo will include managing the worldwide sales specialist organization,
which includes vertical products such as Lineo Availix, high availability
clustering software, and Lineo NETtel, a VPN Internet router. 

The sales headquarters of the company will be based in Lineo's San Jose,
California offices. Customers may contact Lineo's sales team via e-mail
at sales@lineo.com or by calling 801-426-5001. For Lineo's worldwide sales
contact information, please visit http://www.lineo.com/company/contact.html.


About Lineo, Inc.
Lineo, Inc. provides Linux-based embedded systems, real-time and high
availability solutions that include software, hardware designs and professional
 services. Lineo's solutions allow OEMs to create devices and systems
that interact with the Internet while helping OEMs to reduce system requirement
s, per-unit costs and time-to-market. The company's key product lines
include: Embedix (embedded Linux system software), uClinux (embedded Linux
for MMU-less processors), NETtel (Linux-based Internet appliances for
secure networking) and High Availability Cluster (mission critical Linux
cluster solutions). Contact Lineo at www.lineo.com, via e-mail to info@lineo.co
m or by calling (801) 426-5001.

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