Bull and Trustix Partner to Deliver Network Security Solutions

Will jointly develop and market new TrustWay and Trustix network
security appliances

PARIS; March 13, 2001 - Bull Infrastructure & Systems, the net
infrastructure supplier, and Trustix, the leading provider of systems
and security management solutions for Linux, announced today that they
were entering into technology and marketing partnership covering
security hardware and software for the Internet and e-business.
Under the agreement, Bull Infrastructure & Systems, as part of its
TrustWay security offer, and Trustix will jointly develop advanced
security products for the protection of Internet communications for
e-business. The two companies will jointly market the resulting products
through their respective distribution channels.  In addition, Trustix
becomes a distributor of Bull's TrustWay VPN offer in Northern and
Central Europe.

In a first step, Bull will produce a new firewall appliance, integrating
the Trustix XSentry Linux-based firewall software with the TrustWay
Appliance hardware platform. The new firewall appliance will be
manufactured at Bull's facility in Angers, France. This new firewall
appliance will be available during 2Q 2001 and distributed by both
partners worldwide through their respective channels.

In a second step, Bull and Trustix will develop a new, combined
firewall/VPN appliance, which would integrate the Trustix XSentry
firewall software solution with the TrustWay VPN appliance solution.
Bull and Trustix aim at developing the next generation security solution
within the next twelve months, launching the resulting product in early
2002.

"As a secure computing infrastructure supplier with a particular
interest in the Open Source Linux environment we are very pleased to
work with Trustix, whose offer is very complementary to TrustWay," said
Gérard Roucairol, VP of R&D at Bull.  "By leveraging the particular
contributions of each company and focusing on advanced, but proven
technology, we are able both to enrich each other's product offerings
and bring new products to market very quickly."

"We are very exited about our partnership with Bull" remarked Havard
Wollan, President and CEO of Trustix.  "We will combine our respective
strengths in software and hardware to launch next generation security
solutions that address our customers security needs in the rapidly
evolving extended Internet."

About Trustix
Trustix is a leading provider of Internet infrastructure software and
services, providing next generation solutions for managed infrastructure
operating and application environments. Trustix XPloy is the leading
eBusiness Systems Management Solution for Linux. Other products from
Trustix include the XSentry firewall and security administrator and
Trustix Secure Linux, the high performance, secure and stable Linux
operating system developed by Trustix and used by customers worldwide.
Trustix AS is a privately held corporation with headquarters in
Trondheim, Norway. For more information about Trustix, please visit the
Trustix web site at http://www.trustix.com.

About Bull
Bull is an international IT group with customers in more than 100
countries. In 2000, the company earned revenues of 3.244 billion Euros.
Bull's strategy is focused on secure Internet Infrastructure and
Services dedicated to helping customers transform their processes and IT
infrastructure in order to take full advantage of the net.economy.
The group is structured in two major autonomous businesses: Integris, a
pan-European IT services company that provides consulting, systems
integration, managed services with a strong focus on Telcos, Internet
solutions and Outsourcing and Bull Infrastructure & Systems, which uses
its unique range of technology expertise to produce internet-ready
information systems and offer net-infrastructure solutions with
guaranteed levels of performance, scalability and availability.. 

For more information visit http://www.bull.com.
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TrustWay is a trademark of Bull S.A.  XPloy, Trustix Secure Linux,
XSentry and Manage your eBusiness! are trademarks of Trustix AS. Linux
is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds. All other trademarks,
service marks and company names are the property of their respective
owners.


Media Contacts:
Bull
Paul Miller: ++33 1 30 80 70 91
e-mail : p.miller@frcl.bull.fr

Trustix
Arne Midjo: +47 98 21 79 11
e-mail : arne@trustix.com