Lycoris ProductivityPak ships

Lycoris ProductivityPak ships for 15% of Microsoft Office XP's price

Redmond, WA - December 13, 2002 -- From the company that brought 
Desktop/LX to the $199 Walmart.com PC comes a new office suite featuring 
simple installation coupled with Word, Excel and PowerPoint 
compatibility for Desktop/LX users.  The ProductivityPak provides full 
office suite power at the affordable price of $49.95.  Lycoris is the 
first software company to sell separate operating system and full office 
suite products for under $80 to compete directly with Microsoft Office 
and Windows in the general business market.  This pioneering step makes 
Desktop/LX the primary platform for customers looking to control costs 
and use open products.

Businesses, schools and homes can purchase the ProductivityPak from the 
Lycoris Store at www.lycoris.com/store.  Lycoris will be leveraging its 
blue-chip retail partnerships to make the ProductivityPak available from 
places such as WalMart.com.  This exciting software package includes 
Lycoris Office, Lycoris PDASync Palm Pilot synchronization tool, and 
hundreds of labels and templates for 15% of the cost of Office XP.  The 
ProductivityPak runs on Desktop/LX and provides read and write 
compatibility with Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files,  plus over twenty 
other formats. The ProductivityPak also includes Lycoris Web Writer for 
creating and editing simple web pages in "what you see is what you get" 
(WYSIWYG) fashion.

"Now there's an OS and office suite alternative from the same company. 
Desktop/LX users can buy six copies of the ProductivityPak for the price 
of a single copy of Office XP.  We're not saying we match every feature, 
but most users don't use half the features in our competitors' products, 
so why pay for them?  For most office tasks, the ProductivityPak gives 
you identical functionality, and you get your money's worth," states 
Jason Spisak, Lycoris Marketing Director. "It's another example of 
Desktop/LX being a less expensive platform than Windows."

The low price tag of $49.95 enables the ProductivityPak to make inroads 
into offices, schools, homes and non-profit organizations that are 
concerned about the increasing cost of Microsoft licensing.  With a full 
operating system and office suite combination priced at under $80, users 
get the stability of Linux plus the trademark simplicity of Lycoris 
products for less than the price of any competing desktop OS alone. The 
features of the ProductivityPak include the modern conveniences users 
expect from office applications such as word completion, auto-correction 
and more.

Lycoris ProductivityPak includes:

ProductivityPak Installer for easy installation
Lycoris Writer
Lycoris Spreadsheet
Lycoris Presents
Lycoris Artist
Lycoris Web Writer
Lycoris PDASync Palm Pilot synchronization tool
Read and write Word, Excel, and PowerPoint documents
Hundreds of labels and templates
Mail merge
Auto spell check and thesaurus in all Lycoris Office applications
Integrated look and feel with simplified toolbars and hotkeys

For a complete tour, please visit http://www.lycoris.com/products/ppak/

Lycoris continues making consumer-driven products that are easy to use 
and inexpensive. To purchase your copy of the ProductivityPak and 
Desktop/LX, please visit the new Lycoris Store 
[www.lycoris.com/store/].  To purchase pre-installed Desktop/LX PCs from 
WalMart.com, please visit the WalMart.com Lycoris Catalog 
[http://www.lycoris.com/walmart.php ].

About Lycoris
Lycoris, located in Redmond, Washington, was founded in 2000 with a 
vision of making Linux simple enough for everyone, and pioneered the 
Linux-based home-user desktop. Lycoris packages Open Source applications 
for the consumer market and integrates them into Desktop/LX, its simple, 
robust OS.  Lycoris has enjoyed amazingly positive press coverage in 
Time Magazine and other publications as the provider of the best Linux 
desktop, whether purchased separately or pre-installed on $199 
Desktop/LX PCs at WalMart.com.

Jason Spisak
Marketing Director
press@lycoris.com
+1 323 445-2646

Mike Weltz
Sales Director
sales@lycoris.com
+1 805 579-0444

Lycoris
PO Box 2313
Redmond, WA 98073-2313
http://www.lycoris.com/

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