Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 14:14:01 -0400
From: Amy Zsak <amyz@metrolink.com>
To: pr@metrolink.com
Subject: METRO LINK ENTERS STRATEGIC RELATIONSHIP WITH ONCORE

Press Release

METRO LINK ENTERS STRATEGIC RELATIONSHIP WITH ONCORE SYSTEMS CORPORATION

Fort Lauderdale, FL October 16, 2000 -- Metro Link Inc.,
(http://www.metrolink.com) the leader in graphical display software, has
joined OnCore Systems Corp., (http://www.oncoresystems.com) in a
strategic relationship to provide a complete graphical solution to
customers in the mission-critical and avionics community requiring
robust platforms and FAA RTCA/EUROCAE DO-178B certification.

Metro Link's X Window System server, Micro-X, can be implemented with
the OnCore Operating System in its embedded Linux and UNIX capacities. 
Micro-X is specifically designed for embedded systems, providing the
smallest footprint possible for the features required.  In addition, it
will easily complement FAA-certified environments with OnCore's
certifiable RTOS, MicroC/OS-II. 

"Metro Link's prior experience in the avionics community, including
their software contributions in the Boeing 777 and the 767 AWACS, makes
them the perfect graphics solution for OnCore's certified solutions,"
said Chip Downing, President and CEO of OnCore Systems.  "In addition,
their X Window products are a perfect fit for OnCore's family of
embedded Linux platforms."

"The OnCore team has vast experience in the avionics/aerospace industry
that Metro Link can leverage as part of our own FAA RTCA/EUROCAE DO-178B
certification," said Morgan Von Essen, President and CEO of Metro Link. 
"Our strategic alliance will provide customers with one of the few
complete solutions for the avionics community."

ABOUT METRO LINK
Metro Link Inc., a software development company founded in 1989,
specializes in graphics display technology solutions for embedded,
Linux, and UNIX operating systems. Metro Link's X Window System
products, including Metro-X™, Micro-X™, Metro Motif Complete!™ and Metro
Media™, give developers a stable, standards-based solution for graphics,
application development and MPEG playback.  Metro Link also offers
Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) enabled protocol stacks.  X.Org, the
worldwide X Window System consortium, has contracted with Metro Link to
maintain and enhance the X Window System source code.  Metro Link's
products are used by Lucent, Oracle (NASDAQ:  ORCL), Red Hat (NASDAQ: 
RHAT), Intel, IBM, Compaq, Sun (NASDAQ:  SUNW), Hewlett Packard, VA
Linux (NASDAQ:  LNUX, and others in such projects as the Boeing 777, the
Space Shuttle, 767 AWACS, the Acuson Computed Sonography System, the
Army Land Warrior and many other applications that demand proven
mission-critical reliability.  


ABOUT ONCORE SYSTEMS
OnCore Systems Corporation provides hard real-time, highly resilient
operating systems for mission-critical applications running on embedded
designs powered by microprocessors from AMD, IBM, Intel, MIPS and
Motorola.  Additionally, OnCore provides embedded Linux solutions that
deliver predictable, sub-5 microseconds response times to real-time
events, while maintaining 100% binary compatibility with Red Hat Linux
applications.  OnCore's scalable offering of embedded Linux usage models
include using standard Linux and OnCore's Linux OnCall™ and Linux
OnDemand™ products, along with a complete family RTOS APIs that can run
simultaneously on top of OnCore's virtual memory-based microkernel. 
OnCore Systems also provides high availability solutions, software
development tools and services to assist customers in meeting critical
time-to-market demands.  OnCore Systems (http://www.OnCoreSystems.com),
headquartered in Half Moon Bay, California, was founded in early 1999.
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Contact:
Bob Zinn, VP Marketing
bobzinn@metrolink.com
954-660-2440	Direct
954-938-1982	Fax		

Metro Link, Inc.
5807 North Andrews Way
Fort Lauderdale, FL 33309
www.metrolink.com

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