Win4Lin Delivers Windows 2000 and Windows XP on Linux

Win4Lin Delivers Windows 2000 and Windows XP on Linux; 

Win4Lin Pro Becomes Flagship Product for Running Windows
Applications on Linux 

LinuxWorld Boston 2005



BOSTON--Feb. 16, 2005--Win4Lin, Inc., a leading supplier of
virtual operating systems 
on Linux, today announced the release of their Win4Lin
Pro(TM) product which runs 
Windows 2000 and Windows XP applications on Linux. Win4Lin
Pro becomes the 
flagship of the company's Win4Lin product family, which
also includes Win4Lin 
9X(TM), Win4Lin Terminal Server(TM) and Win4Lin(TM) Home.
Win4Lin, Inc. 
recently acquired the assets of NeTraverse, Inc., the
original developers of Win4Lin 
products, and is ambitiously extending the product family. 

"With Win4Lin Pro, Linux on the desktop has just become a
reality. Previously, 
enterprises and users needing to migrate legacy Windows
applications to Linux were 
stuck with either an expensive porting task or with clunky,
non-integrated virtual 
machine solutions, or, in the case of Win4Lin, with running
Windows 98. Now, with 
Win4Lin Pro's full support for Windows 2000 and XP, all of
the barriers to adoption have 
been removed," said Jim Curtin, President and CEO of
Win4Lin, Inc. 

"For the last couple of years the objection we've heard
most often was, 'you only run on 
Windows 98.' Today, that objection has been removed. You
are now free to move to the 
Linux desktop while continuing to run your critical Windows
2000/XP applications." 

Using Win4Lin's high performance virtual computing
environment (VCE), Win4Lin Pro 
runs any Windows 2000 or Windows XP application with no
change to the host operating 
system (e.g. no need to patch the Linux kernel). Win4Lin
Pro runs as a Linux process, 
sharing the Linux memory and file system without yielding
control to the Windows guest 
operating system. With the stable Linux architecture as its
foundation, Win4Lin Pro 
protects PCs from Windows viruses and other prevalent forms
of malware. Win4Lin Pro 
limits the impact of a Windows system failure or security
flaw to only the virtual sandbox 
in which the applications are running. Thus Windows
malfunctions cannot cause system-
wide failures. 

"Win4Lin Pro is an outstanding achievement. I believe your
product to be superior to all 
of the other approaches for providing Windows support on
Linux. And your responsive 
team makes it a pleasure to work with you," said Jim
Provan, COO, ThinDesktop, Inc. 

Win4Lin Product Family 

Other products in the Win4Lin family include Win4Lin
9X(TM), Win4Lin Terminal 
Server(TM) and Win4Lin(TM) Home. Win4Lin 9X provides
migration support for 
enterprise users moving from Windows to Linux by allowing
the execution of 
applications that cannot be ported to Linux (i.e. missing
source code, too expensive) with 
full support for networked environments. Win4Lin Home is a
lightweight version of 
Win4Lin 9X that provides the standalone or home user with
the ability to run needed 
Windows applications on Linux. Win4Lin Terminal Server is
the company's enterprise 
solution for delivering Windows applications on thin
clients via a Linux server. Unlike 
Citrix (CTXS), or any of the other Windows-based remote
display vendors, there is no 
need to add Windows servers to run the Windows applications
as Win4Lin Terminal 
Server serves Windows sessions from Linux servers. 

Product Pricing & Availability 

Win4Lin Pro(TM) is being offered at an introductory price
of $99.95 per copy until 
March 31, 2005. First customer ships of the product have
begun, with general availability 
and quantity shipping to commence on February 23, 2005. 

For more information and ordering information visit 
http://www.win4lin.com/redirects/win4linpro.html 

The shipping release of Win4Lin Pro fully supports
execution of Windows 2000 
applications on Linux. The company plans to aggressively
issue enhancement releases to 
add additional features for Win4Lin Pro, including enhanced
support for Windows XP. 

For more information about Win4Lin, Inc. visit
http://www.win4lin.com

Press contact:

Dan Perlman, VP of Marketing
650-430-1463