FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Nation's Largest Repossession Company Makes Record Profits With New Paperless 
System Based on Linux NetworX Cluster Computer System
Camping Companies Increases Business Efficiencies by 50% With Linux-based
System

SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, Oct. 22, 2001 - Camping Companies, the nation's largest 
repossession and investigations company, has implemented an innovative new
paperless 
system based on a Linux NetworX cluster computer system, leading to record
profits 
and improved efficiencies. The paperless system has increased the company's
processing 
capacity by more than 50 percent without hiring any additional staff, and has 
cut time dedicated to account management in half. The success of the
Linux-based 
paperless system is an indicator of how the Linux operating system and
computer 
cluster technology is moving into enterprise business environments.

Clustering, also called parallel processing and distributed computing, has
been 
widely adopted as a powerful high performance computing (HPC) platform
because 
of its ability to match and outperform traditional supercomputers for a
fraction 
of the cost. High availability (HA) clusters are configured to take advantage 
of the built-in redundancy and failover capability of the cluster
architecture, 
creating a very reliable, non-stop server.

Camping Companies helps organizations recover loan payments and repossess
property 
from individuals who refuse or are unable to pay their bills. The company
receives 
up to 200 new assignments daily from its customers via fax, with each new
request 
containing an average of five pages of information. A time and motion study
conducted 
in Oct. 2000 showed its employees were spending 39 percent of all of their
time 
looking for paper.

"In a labor industry, each time you need something done, you throw people at 
it. But we've decided to buck the trend and use technology to significantly
improve 
our processes, and increase our efficiencies," said David Cheng, vice
president 
of technical operations for Camping Companies. "The Linux NetworX cluster
solution 
helped us eliminate paperwork, lower our margin of error, while increasing
efficiencies 
- leading to happier employees and customers, and ultimately greater profits."

Working with Mobile Business Systems, Inc. (MBSi), a developer of remote and 
paperless business systems, Camping Companies incorporated a reliable high
availability 
Linux NetworX Evolocity cluster system to serve as the platform for the new
system. 
The cluster can handle up to 128,000 new client assignments each day, and
records 
remote database updates in real-time. The cluster is completely redundant and 
has logged zero downtime during its first 10 months of operation.

The Evolocity cluster configuration consists of six nodes containing Intel
Pentium® 
III 933 MHz processors, two 12 port 10/100 interconnect switches, and the
Linux 
NetworX ClusterWorX® software and hardware management tool. Two of the nodes 
act as hosts, serving fax requests to the remaining four nodes. Linux NetworX 
manufactures turnkey cluster solutions using many standard hardware
components, 
and then implements its award-winning Integrated Cluster Environment (ICE)
cluster 
management tools. 

The system also includes VoiceTablet mobile pen computers in company vehicles 
designed by Sarasota, Fla.-based Intelliworxx. The VoiceTablets allow
investigators 
to update client files to the cluster remotely using pen, keyboard and voice 
inputs.

"This high availability cluster server is an excellent example of how Linux
and 
clustering is helping businesses manage their mission critical data," said
Clark 
Roundy, vice president of Linux NetworX. 

MBSi is working with Linux NetworX to build an identical cluster system to
function 
as the company's application service provider (ASP) business. The company is 
also considering licensing the system to customers, allowing other companies 
to own a system similar to what Camping Companies is using.

"The ultimate sign of success is the demand by others to use your technology. 
The Linux NetworX Evolocity cluster is an ideal platform to deliver a very
reliable, 
scalable, and cost-effective solution," said Cheng.

To read a complete case study about this, visit
http://www.linuxnetworx.com/news/case_camping.pdf
	
For more information:
www.linuxnetworx.com
1-800-214-9100	

Mobile Business Systems, Inc.
1-602-864-7849

www.campingcompanies.com
1-602-864-7860	

www.intelliworxx.com
1-888-200-9999

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Linux NetworX		
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brutledge@linuxnetworx.com