Appro XtremeBlade wins LinuxWorld Product Awards

Appro XtremeBlade wins LinuxWorld Expo 2005 Product Excellence Awards

Milpitas, CA – August 11, 2005 – Appro (http://www.appro.com), a leading provider of
high-performance enterprise computing systems announces that LinuxWorld magazine in conjunction
with the show's organizers IDG World Expo has named the company's Appro's XtremeBlade Cluster
Solution as the winner of the "Best Clustering Solution" category for the Product Excellence Awards
at the LinuxWorld Expo. 

The winners of the LinuxWorld Product Excellence Awards were presented in San Francisco yesterday
in a ceremony hosted by SYS-CON Media West Coast Bureau Chief Roger Strukhoff . This year's winners
reflect the efforts of both established industry leaders and emerging innovators. The awards
program honors the most innovative and relevant hardware, software and services announced in 2005
providing Linux IT professionals with best-in-class product and service innovations that create
efficiencies, enhance performance while offering competitive edge. 

"We are very pleased that Appro XtremeBlade Cluster has been recognized by LinuxWorld Expo judges
for the "Best Clustering Solution", said Daniel Kim, CEO of Appro. "Combining 10 Gbps InfiniBand
performance with benefits of dual-core processors and PCI Express technologies, customers can build
high-bandwidth clusters today in an infrastructure that is flexible and easy to scale. XtremeBlade
makes perfect balanced cluster architecture for rapid adoption in data centers and high performance
computing environments." 

Read more about the winners of LinuxWorld Excellence Awards at 
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The Finalists are listed at
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About LinuxWorld Excellence Awards
The LinuxWorld Product Excellence Awards are the industry standard for innovation in the Linux
community. IDG World Expo is pleased to honor the developers of these products, which represent the
very best technology available to users of Linux and open source. LinuxWorld Conference & Expo runs
through August 11th at the San Francisco Moscone Center. For more information on the event, visit
www.linuxworldexpo.com.

About Appro 
Appro's headquarters is in Milpitas, CA. Appro has an R&D and manufacturing center in Asia and a
sales and service office in Houston, Texas. APPRO enables a variety of network computing
applications by developing powerful, scalable, and reliable clusters, servers, storage subsystems
and high-end workstations for the high-performance computing (HPC), Internet computing and cluster
market.
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Contacts: 
Maria McLaughlin
Appro International, Inc
mmclaughlin@appro.com
(408)888-6661

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