Lycoris and Ericom Software Announce Desktop/LX InterConnect

Lycoris and Ericom Software Announce Desktop/LX InterConnect

Redmond, WA -- August 18th, 2002 With great excitement, Lycoris and 
Ericom Software team up to offer Desktop/LX InterConnect, a simple 
corporate desktop with full office suite and outstanding host 
connectivity tools. Desktop/LX InterConnect features Ericom Software's 
native Linux PowerTerm InterConnect software, the Lycoris 
ProductivityPak office suite, and the Lycoris Remote Desktop Client. 
This new product offers a substantial cost savings to enterprises 
looking for an affordable alternative to restrictive licensing on the 
desktop.

Lycoris Desktop/LX exemplifies ease of use and has enjoyed glowing 
reviews from the technology press including MSNBCi and PC World. 
Desktop/LX is a unified desktop operating system based on Linux and 
features an integrated Control Center, Desktop Sharing, File Sharing, 
Network Browsing and more. The Desktop/LX Network Browser works like 
Network Neighborhood to give corporate users access to Windows server 
shares via the standard SMB protocol. The new Desktop Sharing ability 
starts a VNC session from the desktop with a single click and allows 
Desktop/LX remote assistance and administration over the corporate 
network. Included for the first time in Desktop/LX InterConnect is the 
Lycoris RDP client which allows simple viewing of shared Windows 
desktops using Windows Terminal Server's standard RDP protocol.

According to Lycoris CTO and founder Joseph Cheek, "Desktop/LX 
InterConnect combines the clean, simple, familiar Desktop/LX user 
interface with connectivity tools for the enterprise. By integrating our 
existing networking tools, such as our SMB-aware Network Browser and our 
Desktop Sharing software, with support for Windows Terminal Server and 
host access via Ericom's PowerTerm InterConnect, we have created a 
solution for less than a third the cost of comparable Microsoft 
products. Add to that our ProductivityPak office suite with native 
support for Microsoft Office file formats and our PDASync utility for 
hotsyncing your Palmbased PDA, and Desktop/LX InterConnect becomes a 
compelling software package for many corporate environments."

PowerTerm InterConnect Linux Edition is Ericom Software's proven host 
connectivity solution for organizations requiring fast and accurate 
access to legacy applications residing on IBM mainframe, AS/400, 
Digital, Unix, SCO, Data General, HP, Tandem and others. The PowerTerm 
InterConnect terminal emulator maximizes enterprise-wide productivity by 
enabling access from your Desktop/LX environment to accounting, 
inventory management, transaction processing and other mission-critical 
legacy applications.

"One of the challenges to successfully implementing Linux on the 
corporate desktop is gathering together all the required components and 
getting them to work together. Lycoris does just this in their 
Desktop/LX InterConnect product. Desktop/LX InterConnect means unified 
corporate productivity, right out of the box," said Eric Fernwood, 
Ericom VP of Sales and Marketing.

Desktop/LX InterConnect also includes the ProductivityPak office suite 
and offers excellent Microsoft Office document compatibility while 
maintaining an open standard for data by using the OpenOffice.org 
project as a base. A full-featured word processor, spreadsheet, 
presentation maker, and drawing program make the ProductivityPak a 
drop-in replacement for Word, Excel and PowerPoint. Another exciting 
feature of the ProductivityPak is Lycoris PDASync, which enables users 
of Palm OS handhelds to synchronize the Desktop/LX personal calendar, 
to-do list, address book and memo pad with their PDAs. For the first 
time, corporations with mainframe connectivity and desktop needs now 
have a familiar, power, and affordable desktop alternative with 
Desktop/LX InterConnect.

Features in Desktop/LX InterConnect include:

Desktop/LX Installer for easy client installation
Ericom PowerTerm InterConnect for Linux
ProductvityPak office suite
Lycoris Remote Desktop VNC and RDP client
Lycoris PDASync Palm OS synchronization software
Lycoris Desktop Sharing and Reomote Assistance software
Mozilla 1.0 Final web broswer and email client
Integrated configuration utilities which are part of the Desktop/LX OS, 
including the Desktop/LX Control Center and the Desktop/LX Video 
Recovery Mode

This exciting new release of Desktop/LX will be available for purchase 
September 2002 from Ericom Software and Lycoris. For sales information 
contact Ericom Software sales@ericom.com / +1 201-767-2210. or Lycoris 
sales at sales@lycoris.com / +1 805 579-0444

About Lycoris

Lycoris, located in Redmond, Washington, was founded in 2000 with a 
vision of making Linux simple enough for anyone to use. Lycoris packages 
Open Source applications for the consumer market and integrates them 
into Desktop/LX, their simple, robust Linux desktop. Lycoris has enjoyed 
amazingly positive press coverage and has rocketed into the spotlight as 
the provider of Desktop/LX. For more information please visit the 
Lycoris website at www.lycoris.com.

About Ericom

Ericom was founded in 1994 to address the emerging needs of 
organizations to access mission critical legacy applications residing on 
centralized host systems including IBM Mainframe, IBM AS/400, Digital, 
Data General, HP, Tandem and Unix. Ericom has become a leading provider 
of corporate connectivity, e-business, wireless and business-to-business 
solutions that extend the life of host and legacy data by creating 
Internet applications from existing host resources. Ericom develops, 
markets and supports a complete line of connectivity software products 
including the PowerTerm ? series of terminal emulators. For more 
information please visit the Ericom Software website at www.ericom.com.

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