Trustix and LinuxIT Partner in the UK 

Trustix and LinuxIT announce their partnership to provide end to end
support and services to UK partners and customers of award winning
Trustix Linux Solutions - a range of e-business infrastructure solutions
offering unparalleled ease of use and appeal to small and medium sized
enterprises. 

London, April 24th 2002 - Trustix is a leading provider of plug and
serve turnkey Linux solutions in the UK market, and the new partnership
with LinuxIT ensures a strong local presence for support and service for
Trustix' products delivered by one of UK's leading Linux experts,
LinuxIT. 

Trustix publish a suite of turnkey Linux solutions ranging from point
solution servers like firewall, web, e-mail, and file/print to server
clusters on IBM xSeries server hardware, all managed by Trustix award
winning Linux systems management software. These turnkey plug and serve
Linux solutions - Trustix software on IBM xSeries hardware - are
available in the market through Trustix and IBM business partners. 

Under the new partnership with Trustix, LinuxIT will be providing
Trustix services, training and certification in the UK market to meet
Trustix business partners' and end-users' needs. 

"We are pleased to have LinuxIT as our service partner promoting and
supporting Trustix Linux Solutions in the UK market," said Havard
Wollan, Chairman and CEO of Trustix. "We are expanding our operations
and embarking on new partnerships in the UK now, and I see huge growth
opportunities in this market." 

Peter Dawes, Sales Director of LinuxIT commented: "Trustix Linux
Solutions are a compelling range of IT infrastructure servers based on
Linux. We are delighted to enter into our new partnership with Trustix
and know that our customers and business partners will welcome these new
solutions from Trustix, offering supreme ease of use, security and
stability based upon Linux software, IBM hardware, and very low total
cost of ownership." 

About Trustix Linux Solutions 

Trustix Linux Solutions are a range of e-business infrastructure
applications, including LAN server (file/print), Web server, Mail
server, Proxy server and Firewall. All Trustix Linux Solutions are
turnkey infrastructure applications. Systems administration and software
maintenance of Trustix Linux Solutions is completely automated with
Trustix' award winning software technology for Linux systems management
and software provisioning. Trustix Linux Solutions are provided on IBM
xSeries server hardware. 

About Trustix 
Trustix is a leading provider of e-business infrastructure applications
and Linux systems management solutions. Trustix also provides Trustix
Secure Linux, which is widely recognized as the most secure Linux
distribution optimized for server side applications. 

Trustix AS is a privately held corporation with headquarters in
Trondheim, Norway and offices in the USA, UK and Indonesia. For more
information about Trustix, please visit the Trustix web site at
www.trustix.com . 

About LinuxIT 
LinuxIT is one of Europe's leading vendor-neutral solutions providers,
focused exclusively on Open Source and Linux technologies. LinuxIT
delivers solutions, which incorporate turnkey systems, training,
consultancy, software and enterprise-level support and expertise. 

LinuxIT also provides strategic, technical and support services to help
customers achieve their most demanding IT objectives in a managed and
controlled manner 

Founded in 1998 LinuxIT has its headquarters in Bristol, United Kingdom
and provides services, products and solutions to Business', ISVs and
VARs throughout the UK and continental Europe. 

For more information about LinuxIT, please visit the LinuxIT web site at
www.LinuxIT.com. 

Trustix Press Contact 

Martin Klee, Trustix UK Country Manager
e-mail: martin.klee@trustix.com
Telephone: +44 7798 848513


LinuxIT Press Contact 
Peter Dawes
e-mail: peterd@linuxit.com
Telephone: +44 (0) 117 373 0466


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Corporation. Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds. All
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