TUXIA SUCCESSFULLY LAUNCHES INTO AUSTRALIA

Sydney, Australia - 15 March 2001 - TUXIA, was successfully introduced to
the Australian market at the recently held IT Comdex/Linux Expo 2001, at
the Sydney Exhibition Centre Darling Harbour.  With close to 400 exhibitors
and over 32000 visitors at the expo, the expo provided them with an
excellent opportunity to launch their company TUXIA - a leader in the field
of Embedded Linux solutions for Internet Appliances and their product -
TASTE (TUXIA Appliance Synthesis Technology Enabled).

TUXIA was nominated finalists in three different product categories. The
categories were: * Best Product for Contribution to Linux (Sponsored by PC
World) * Best Corporate Product (Sponsored by Australia Personal Computer)
* Best New Technology (Sponsored by ACP Tech)

TUXIA specialises in embedded Linux software suites for Internet and
Information appliances that provides technology-based solutions for
business.  The suite called TASTE (TUXIA Appliance Synthesis Technology
Enabled) is a solution based on Linux Kernel 2.4 with an embedded Mozilla
browser and other functionalities, making TASTE robust, stable and the most
open embedded software that can be integrated into any hardware
platform. TASTE is small with a compression ratio of up to 3:1. The system
is stored on a flash chip thus eliminating a need for a hard disk.

TASTE's, Software Reference Design (SRD) enables a faster time to market
and can be customised to address customer requirements.  Current TASTE
solutions include Thin Clients Solutions, Settop Boxes Solutions,
WebPads(tm) Solutions, Screen Phones Solutions and CRT Pads Solutions.





TUXIA also provides a new development tool called TSE (TUXIA Synthesis
Environment) that enables customers to easily integrate TASTE into
virtually any hardware platform allowing them to customise TASTE and
differentiate their products to maintain an important edge.

The future is certainly bright for TUXIA.  The positive "First Impression"
generated at the expo will allow TUXIA to position itself as the best
provider of Embedded Linux Software for Internet Appliances in the market.