Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 10:10:01 -0500
From: Amy Zsak <amyz@metrolink.com>
To: pr@metrolink.com
Subject: Metro Link Press Release

Metro Link Press Release
For Immediate Release

Contact:
Bob Zinn, VP of Marketing
bobzinn@metrolink.com
Direct:  954-660-2440
Main:    800-821-8315
Fax:      954-938-1982

Metro Link Porting X Window System Products for the IA-64 Linux and
Monterey Operating Systems Built on Intel's New Itanium Processor

Fort Lauderdale, FL October 30, 2000 - Metro Link Inc.
(http://www.metrolink.com), the leader in graphical display software, is
porting its X Window System products for use on Intel's new IA-64
Itanium processor.  This software will be ported to the IA-64 Linux and
Monterey operating systems initially, with other operating systems to
follow.   Metro Link's commercial-grade X server, Motif, and OpenGL
products will allow users of high-powered graphics programs to work in a
free-software Linux environment rather than in proprietary
environments.  

This support also opens up new opportunities for the many Linux
distributors, who have so far focused on the desktop market.  The extra
power of the Itanium processor brings in customers of high-end
workstations, such as those designing graphics animation, architectural
renderings and scientific visualization.  With the horsepower of Intel's
IA-64 processor and Metro Link's X Window System products, developers
will be able to accomplish more, and at a less expensive price.

"IA-64 Linux will infiltrate the high-end workstation market and
revolutionize it," said Morgan Von Essen, Metro Link President and CEO. 
"Metro Link's software code has long been 64-bit clean, so we anticipate
no problems in porting our products to the Itanium processor.  We look
forward to supporting this fabulous new architecture."

Several operating systems have already been ported to pre-production
Itanium systems, including IA-64 Linux, Monterey, Novell Modesto, HP-UX,
and 64-bit Windows 2000.

Metro Link's X Window System products include Metro-X (an enhanced X
server replacement), Metro Motif Complete! (a unique package of three
Motif versions that enables all three versions to co-exist on a single
machine), Metro Media (video-in-a-window and MPEG playback under X), and
Metro Extreme 3D (a hardware-accelerated implementation of OpenGL).

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.  In addition to X Window System
products, Metro Link 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 (NASDAQ: IBM) , Compaq, Sun
(NASDAQ:  SUNW), Hewlett Packard, VA Linux, and others in such projects
as the Boeing 777, the Space Shuttle, 767 AWACS, the Acuson Computed
Sonography System, and many other applications that demand proven
mission-critical reliability.  

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