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Fiat Group Automobiles and Microsoft Grow Partnership With the Lancia Delta and Fiat ecoDrive in Geneva

HANNOVER, Germany and GENEVA, March 4 /PRNewswire/ --

- Continental also unveils Microsoft-based infotainment prototype at CeBIT expo.

News at a glance - Fiat Group Automobiles will announce details on ecoDrive, available later this year and based on the Blue&Me platform. - Fiat is seeing massive uptake in Blue&Me, reaching an attach ratio of 80 per cent in the new Fiat 500. - Blue&Me and Blue&Me Nav will be offered on the new Lancia Delta, which will be unveiled at the Geneva Motor Show. - Following its launch last year, Ford has estimated Sync will be a massive hit in the US car market with a projected 1 million cars sold with the system by early 2009. - Continental AG will show its latest multimedia platform prototype featuring extended navigation, infotainment and multi-device support.

Following last year's successful unveiling of Blue&Me Nav, Fiat Group Automobiles and Microsoft Corp are set to announce strong attach rates and further developments for the system at this year's CeBIT expo and the Geneva Motor Show.

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Fiat will show a new demonstration of an innovative application called ecoDrive, which analyses the motorist's driving style and offers suggestions on how to drive more "ecologically". By using the USB port of the versatile Blue&Me system, it is possible to record the characteristics of a motorist's driving style, and using a normal USB key, carry that information into a digital environment. There, the driver can analyse in detail the fuel consumption and CO2 emissions of every journey, receive advice on how to drive with a lower impact on the environment, and become part of a community that shares an eco-aware driving ethic.

Blue&Me has now proved to be one of Fiat's most successful service offerings with 80 per cent per cent uptake in all of the pre-ordered Fiat 500s in Europe. The recent launch of Blue&Me Map for the Fiat 500 is also enjoying a huge sales success. Microsoft will present a Fiat 500 with Blue&Me Map at its booth in Hannover at this year's CeBIT.

In Geneva, Lancia Automobiles will globally launch the new Lancia Delta, with Blue&Me or Blue&Me Nav as an optional extra. Blue&Me Nav provides a simple and intuitive voice-controlled navigation system via a Bluetooth interface; as standard it also incorporates a USB port, MP3 player and SMS text interpreter. Blue&Me Nav's key functions such as phone, music player and navigation are built into the instrument panel, allowing drivers to listen to their favourite music, make phone calls and use the navigation system via the hands-free interface. The speech recognition technology ensures drivers have hands-free access to all Blue&Me's features in a completely safe manner when in motion.

"Microsoft and its partners share a vision for transforming the driving experience by connecting motorists seamlessly and conveniently to the people and information they care about while they are on the road," said Martin Thall, general manager of Microsoft Auto. "By building on the Microsoft Auto platform, Fiat's ability to innovate and create market-defining in-car technology allows the company to build even further on its reputation for driver-centric innovation and design."

As well as automakers and their suppliers, many popular aftermarket manufacturers also incorporate Microsoft software into their offerings. At CeBIT Microsoft will showcase several state-of-the-art navigation/multimedia head units built on Microsoft's Windows Automotive operating system.

Sync to Drive Ford

Microsoft Auto has seen further momentum in the US with Ford Sync following its launch last year. Ford has estimated Sync will be a massive hit in the US car market with a projected 1 million cars sold equipped with it by early 2009. With the launch of the Ford Focus in the US, Sync has become the most requested feature in all Focus models, particularly among the 18- to 35-year-old audience.

At the CeBIT expo in Hannover, the international automotive supplier Continental AG will showcase a prototype of its next-generation Multimedia Platform (MMP), based on the Microsoft Auto platform. It includes navigation, high-end multimedia applications and interfaces that connect multiple portable electronic entertainment devices.

The Microsoft Auto platform allows Continental to focus on its key competences, such as system design, vehicle integration, driver assistance systems and safety systems. This also means its MMP is easily upgradeable, enabling Continental customers to keep up with the latest technologies and standards.

Carmakers benefit from this concept by getting a tailor-made system in a much shorter lead time, which allows more time to integrate the latest trends in consumer electronics into the automotive environment. Ultimately, this enables motorists and their passengers to enjoy the latest infotainment technology as soon as it is available.

"Thanks to the excellent cooperation with Microsoft's Automotive Business Unit we are making rapid progress with our new platform. The development of this solution proves that our collaboration allows every party to concentrate on its key competencies, which maximises the benefit for our customers," said Helmut Matschi, president of Continental's Interior Division.

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Fiat Group Automobiles et Microsoft renforcent leur partenariat avec la nouvelle Lancia Delta et l'application Fiat ecoDrive présentées à Genève

HANOVRE, Allemagne et GENÃˆVE, March 4 /PRNewswire/ --

- Ã€u CeBIT, Continental dévoile également un prototype d'infoloisirs opérant sur la plate-forme Microsoft.

Nouvelles en bref - Fiat Group Automobiles annoncera les détails de l'application ecoDrive basée sur la plate-forme Blue&Me, disponible dans le courant de année. - L'option Blue&Me connaît un énorme succès, avec un taux d'attache de 80 pour cent sur la nouvelle Fiat 500. - Blue&Me et Blue&Me Nav seront offertes sur la nouvelle Lancia Delta, présentée au Salon de l'automobile de Genève. - Après le lancement de Sync l'année dernière, Ford prévoit son énorme succès sur le marché automobile américain, avec des ventes projetées d'un million de voitures équipées du système d'ici début 2009. - Continental AG présentera son nouveau prototype de plate-forme multimédia incluant des fonctions étendues de navigation et d'infoloisirs, ainsi que la prise en charge de multiples appareils.

Après le lancement réussi de Blue&Me Nav l'an dernier, Fiat Group Automobiles et Microsoft Corp annoncent de forts taux d'attache et de nouvelles fonctions qui seront présentées au CeBIT et au Salon de l'automobile de Genève cette année.

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Fiat présentera une application innovante appelée ecoDrive, qui analyse le style de conduite de l'automobiliste et offre des suggestions pour une conduite plus << écologique >>. En utilisant le port USB du système Blue&Me versatile, il est possible d'enregistrer les caractéristiques du style de conduite de l'automobiliste et, en utilisant une clé USB traditionnelle, de transmettre ces informations à un environnement numérique. Ã€ partir de ces données, le conducteur peut analyser en détail sa consommation d'essence et les émissions de CO2 générées par chaque trajet, recevoir des conseils pour un impact moins négatif sur l'environnement, et rejoindre une communauté centrée sur une éthique de conduite écologique.

Blue&Me s'est avérée Ãªtre l'une des offres de service les plus réussies de Fiat, avec une adoption de 80 pour cent dans les pré-commandes de Fiat 500 en Europe. Le lancement récent de Blue&Me Map pour la Fiat 500 jouit également de très fortes ventes. Microsoft présentera une Fiat 500 équipée de Blue&Me Map à son stand au CeBIT de cette année à Hanovre.

Ã€ Genève, Lancia Automobiles procèdera au lancement mondial de la nouvelle Lancia Delta, avec Blue&Me ou Blue&Me Nav en option. Blue&Me Nav fournit un système de navigation à commande vocale simple et intuitif, via une interface Bluetooth ; en standard, elle incorpore également un port USB, un lecteur MP3 et un interprète de SMS. Les fonctions clés de Blue&Me Nav, telles que le téléphone, la lecture audio et la navigation, sont intégrées dans le tableau de bord, permettant au conducteur d'écouter sa musique préférée, d'effectuer des appels téléphoniques et d'utiliser le système de navigation via l'interface mains libres. La technologie de reconnaissance vocale garantit un accès mains libres à toutes les fonctions Blue&Me pendant la conduite, en toute sécurité pour le conducteur.

<< Microsoft et ses partenaires partagent une vision commune, qui est de transformer l'expérience de la conduite, en connectant les conducteurs, de manière pratique et simple, aux personnes et aux informations dont ils ont besoin lorsqu'ils sont sur la route >>, a déclaré Martin Thall, directeur général de Microsoft Auto. << Grâce à la plate-forme Microsoft Auto, les capacités innovantes et créatrices de technologie d'intérieur de véhicule à la pointe du marché de Fiat viennent renforcer la réputation d'innovation et de conception centrées sur le conducteur de la société. >>

Comme les constructeurs automobiles et leurs fournisseurs, de nombreux fabricants de pièces de rechange incorporent le logiciel de Microsoft dans leurs offres. Au CeBIT, Microsoft présentera plusieurs unités de navigation multimédias avancées, construites sur le système d'exploitation Windows Automotive de Microsoft.

L'application Sync démarre en trombe chez Ford

Microsoft Auto a connu une très bonne année aux Ã‰tats-Unis à la suite du lancement de Ford Sync l'an dernier. Ford prévoit un énorme succès pour Sync sur le marché automobile américain avec des ventes projetées d'un million de voitures équipées d'ici début 2009. Avec le lancement de la Ford Focus aux Ã‰tats-Unis, Sync est devenue la fonction la plus demandée sur les modèles Focus, particulièrement chez le public des 18 à 35 ans.

Au CeBIT à Hanovre, le fournisseur automobile international Continental AG dévoilera un prototype de sa plate-forme multimédia (MMP) de prochaine génération, basée sur la plate-forme Microsoft Auto. Elle inclut des applications et des interfaces multimédias de navigation haut de gamme, qui permettent de connecter de multiples dispositifs portables de divertissement électronique.

La plate-forme Microsoft Auto permet à Continental de se concentrer sur ses compétences clés, comme la conception de système, l'intégration de véhicule, les systèmes de sécurité et les services d'assistance de conduite. Cela signifie également une mise à niveau aisée de MMP, permettant aux clients de Continental de rester à la pointe des technologies et des nouveaux standards.

Grâce à ce concept, les constructeurs automobiles obtiennent un système sur mesure dans des délais beaucoup plus courts, ce qui leur laisse plus de temps pour intégrer les dernières nouveautés de l'électronique grand public dans l'environnement automobile. Au final, cela permet aux conducteurs et à leurs passagers de bénéficier des dernières technologies d'infoloisirs dès qu'elles sont disponibles.

<< Grâce à l'excellente coopération de la division automobile de Microsoft, nous effectuons des progrès rapides avec notre nouvelle plate-forme. Le développement de cette solution prouve que notre collaboration permet à chaque partie concernée de se concentrer sur ses compétences clés, ce qui maximise les bénéfices pour nos clients >>, a commenté Helmut Matschi, président de la division intérieure de Continental.

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Autonomy Enables Improved E-Learning and Education in SwedenThe Swedish Research Council Selects IDOL to Create a Single Web Portal for Academia and Citizens of Sweden

CAMBRIDGE, England and SAN FRANCISCO, California, March 4 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Autonomy Corporation plc ( or ), a global leader in infrastructure software for the enterprise, today announced that The Swedish Research Council, Vetenskapsradet, has selected its Intelligent Data Operating Layer (IDOL) platform as part of The Swedish government's initiative to promote research, e-learning and collaboration within Sweden's education system. Autonomy's Meaning-based Computing technologies will enable the Research Council to consolidate all of the country's academic information into one single web portal, Forsking.se.

As one of the co-owners and the host of the editorial offices for Forsking.se, The Swedish Research Council, together with nine other public authorities, wanted to develop a nationwide website to provide a single access point for academia, as well as the general public, to effectively find online research information and learning support from disparate sources. The aim of the portal is to make academic information more accessible by organizing data from different research projects, supplementing texts with comprehensible summaries, and incorporating clear, straight-forward presentations.

The Swedish Research Council selected Autonomy's IDOL for Forsking.se for its ability to conceptually form an understanding of information, regardless of its format, and to automate many time-consuming manual processes. Through the use of Autonomy's automatic categorisation functions, Forsking.se's small editorial team is able to focus on its main business objective - the creation of new content for the site, rather than spending time managing the portal through manual classification and tagging of all existing and new data. With IDOL, the portal's editorial team and various contributors will be able to quickly and accurately upload all new articles without the need to tag or create taxonomies as the software automatically classifies these documents. Users of Forsking.se will now be able to find information quicker, while delivering better return-on-investment for The Swedish Research Council.

Forsking.se contains information in various multimedia formats about everything from climate reports to the latest science progress in specialized medical fields and offers separate entry points for teachers, scientists, high school students and university students. The Autonomy solution will make it easier for these target groups to find relevant information as through Autonomy's Automatic Query Guidance functionality, the users are given suggestions for different filtering options to enable them to quickly locate the data they require.

"We often hear from teachers, students, scientists and researchers that they would like to have a single website where they could find research and academic information easily and effectively. Autonomy will make this a reality and through the technology's automation capabilities, we will be able to make this a viable and manageable project," said Ulf Daneklev, Forsking.se's editor at The Swedish Research Council.

Through Forsking.se, academic information will not only be more accessible to the public, but collaboration amongst universities, colleges as well as the research industry will be promoted, enabling a better quality of research and education in the country. The Swedish media will also access the site to make use of various articles and interactive presentations and animations to support and explain popular news and feature topics.

"Autonomy takes pride in delivering innovative technologies to academia," commented Mike Lynch, CEO of Autonomy. "We look forward to further supporting The Swedish Research Council as it continues to enhance its web portal with more and more advanced features such as the incorporation of more multi-media content."

About Vetenskapsradet

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The Secretariat is composed of the management and the executive bodies. The Secretariat's functions are planning, preparation and execution of issues in the various disciplines, and also for analysis and investigation, information and administration.

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Autonomy Corporation plc is a global leader in infrastructure software for the enterprise and is spearheading the meaning-based computing movement. Autonomy's technology forms a conceptual and contextual understanding of any piece of electronic data including unstructured information, be it text, email, voice or video. Autonomy's software powers the full spectrum of mission-critical enterprise applications including information access technology, BI, CRM, KM, call center solutions, rich media management, information risk management solutions and security applications, and is recognized by industry analysts as the clear leader in enterprise search.

Autonomy's customer base comprises of more than 17,000 global companies and organizations including: 3, ABN AMRO, AOL, BAE Systems, BBC, Bloomberg, Boeing, Citigroup, Coca Cola, Daimler Chrysler, Deutsche Bank, Ericsson, Ford, GlaxoSmithKline, Lloyd TSB, NASA, Nestle, the New York Stock Exchange, Reuters, Shell, T-Mobile, the U.S. Department of Energy, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Autonomy also has over 300 OEM partners and more than 400 VARs and Integrators, numbering among them leading companies such as BEA, Business Objects, Citrix, EDS, IBM Global Services, Novell, Satyam, Sybase, Symantec, TIBCO, Vignette and Wipro. The company has offices worldwide.

The Autonomy Group includes: ZANTAZ, the leader in the archiving, e-Discovery and Proactive Information Risk Management (IRM) markets; Cardiff, a leading provider of Intelligent Document solutions; etalk, award-winning provider of enterprise-class contact center products and Virage, a visionary in rich media management and security and surveillance technology.

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SAP and IDS Scheer Partner to Bring Customers Easier Modeling and Visualization of Enterprise ServicesEvolution of Global Partnership Integrates ARIS Technology from IDS Scheer and Enterprise Services Repository from SAP;SAP NetWeaver(R) Technology Platform Only Environment Enabling Blueprinting for Service-Oriented Architecture

HANOVER, Germany, March 4 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Further enabling customers to realize the benefits of enterprise service-oriented architecture (enterprise SOA), SAP AG and IDS Scheer today announced an expansion of their strategic partnership that will enable customers, for the first time, to take a model and process-centric approach to the implementation of service-enabled business applications from SAP. Through the integration of the Enterprise Services Repository of SAP NetWeaver(R) and ARIS technology from IDS Scheer (also available through SAP as SAP enterprise modeling applications by IDS Scheer), customers will be able to more quickly identify opportunities to better meet the shifting needs of the business and deliver rapid, tangible return on investment. The announcement was made at CeBIT 2008, the world's leading information technology showcase, being held in Hanover, Germany, March 4-9.

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Building upon a long-standing strategic partnership focused on developing tools that enable the understanding, documentation and analysis of stable business processes, the integration brings together the modeling capabilities of the industry-leading ARIS product family with SAP's robust repository of enterprise services to create a conceptual business blueprint for enterprise SOA.

"Services repositories play a pivotal role in organizations for the governance of a large-scale SOA," said Paolo Malinverno, vice president of research, Gartner. "Business-level modeling capabilities tightly integrated with the services and other reusables managed in such a repository allow much better alignment between business and IT."

Released in 1992, ARIS from IDS Scheer is a tool set enabling the discovery, documentation, analysis and optimization of stable, well-understood business processes. Enterprise Services Repository from SAP, developed in close collaboration with IDS Scheer, is a central library where all enterprise service metadata is illustrated and explained, enabling the reuse of enterprise services for modeling and composing new applications. Now, with ARIS technology integration, Enterprise Services Repository users can more clearly visualize, understand and describe their enterprise SOA, including areas built upon SAP solutions as well as areas built in-house or through third parties.

"The integration of ARIS technology with the Enterprise Services Repository of SAP NetWeaver allows customers to access SAP's modeled process components and enterprise services, for the first time, from a business process analysis environment," said Wolfram Jost, executive board member, IDS Scheer AG. "These are true benefits for companies that constantly thrive to improve their business performance. The benefits include a more flexible design of business processes and a deeper understanding of what SAP's service-enabled business applications provide from a business process perspective, combining business process execution with enterprise services. It is a great opportunity for both SAP and IDS Scheer."

Unlike other repository solutions, this integration now enables a combined business and technical view on a company's services-oriented architecture. Users will have visibility into a variety of scenarios including the harmonization and standardization of heterogeneous IT landscapes and the implementation of specific process innovations enabled by enterprise services.

"SAP delivers value to customers by providing innovative and strategic solutions that enable these companies to harness their full business potential and support them in adapting to changing business requirements," said Peter Zencke, executive board member, SAP AG. "Co-innovation together with technology leaders like IDS Scheer is a critical element to that strategy, and we are proud of the continuing evolution of this long-standing relationship."

Via reseller agreement, ARIS is available from SAP as SAP enterprise modeling applications by IDS Scheer. The latest release of the Enterprise Services Repository of SAP NetWeaver is currently available to ramp-up customers and is scheduled to be generally available in the third quarter of 2008.

SAP solutions for companies of all sizes can be seen at Booth D12 in Hall 4, at CeBIT 2008, being held March 4-9, 2008.

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SAP and Intel Collaborate to Offer Pre-Installed Business Solutions for Midsize Companies Optimized for Quad Core Intel(R) Xeon(R) ProcessorsIntended Offering Brings Pre-Configured SAP(R) Business All-in-One Solution onto Intel(R) Xeon(R) Processor-Based Modular Servers Packaged with Operating System and Database; Prototype is Shown at CeBIT 2008

HANOVER, Germany, March 4 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Building upon its recently announced fast-start program for SAP(R) Business All-in-One solutions, SAP AG today revealed plans for an expansion of its partnership with Intel. SAP and its long-term technology partner Intel intend to introduce a ground-breaking offering that will be offered on Intel(R) Xeon(R)-based systems via original equipment manufacturer (OEM) and hardware system providers based on SUSE Linux Enterprise from Novell and the database SAP(R) MaxDB. The offering targets midsize companies in the manufacturing, service and trade industries and directly addresses the demands in these market segments for quick and easy implementation, and tailored yet scalable solutions at predictable costs. Midsize companies are expected to see significant benefits from this comprehensive offer, as it allows quick time to deployment of end-to-end business processes at a low total cost of ownership (TCO). The announcement was made at CeBIT 2008, the world's leading information technology showcase, being held in Hanover, Germany, March 4-9, where a prototype of the new offering is being presented at the SAP booth.

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"The powerful combination of advanced hardware innovation, quad core Intel(R) Xeon(R) processors and SAP Business All-in-One will bring substantial business benefits and lower cost for midmarket customers," said Pat Gelsinger, senior vice president and general manager, Digital Enterprise Group, Intel Corp. "Together with SAP, we plan to offer a solution that is optimized and validated on the Intel(R) Xeon(R) Processor Architecture and deployed on modular servers by our partner OEM system providers."

The modular servers will be available for midsize enterprises and will provide outstanding server performance, helping to meet the unique demands of small and midsize enterprise (SME) customers. A prototype of the offering will be shown at the SAP booth at CeBIT 2008 and will run on an NEC system based on 45nm Intel(R) Xeon(R) processor technology, meeting the initial modular server specifications.

"To succeed in the SME market, software and hardware vendors must develop offerings to meet the specific performance demands of small and midsize companies, but that is not easy," said Ray Boggs, VP of small and medium business research, IDC. "Industry-specific capabilities that can be readily implemented in an affordable way will be key, but so will having offerings that are easy to access, with hardware and software already aligned. In effect, customers will be looking to reconcile the somewhat contradictory goals of a solution designed to meet their individual needs but in an almost pre-configured fashion to minimize time and cost."

Bundled for Low TCO

The new offering for SAP Business All-in-One is designed to combine software, database and hardware into one package, with all components optimized to help midsize companies drive down TCO. The package includes SAP MaxDB, the affordable, simple and reliable high-performing database optimized for SAP solutions, and is based on SUSE Linux Enterprise from Novell, a secure, reliable solution at low cost.

"With SUSE Linux Enterprise, midsize customers are able to optimize both their SAP functionality and their infrastructure, including a fully integrated, validated technology stack to reduce complexity and increase manageability and reduce total cost of ownership," said Jeff Jaffe, executive vice president and chief technology officer, Novell. "It is the open platform of choice, fully supported and delivering ease of use with quality innovation."

Today, more than 700 midsize companies run their SAP applications on Linux, and more than 35 percent of those in combination with SAP MaxDB.

More Hardware Partners to Come

The SAP initiative and optimization work done by Intel for the Intel(R) Xeon(R) platform is part of a series of planned partnerships with multiple hardware vendors to offer solutions for midsize companies that lower TCO, maximize cost transparency and offer comprehensive functionality to streamline core business operations. As a result, the fast-start program for SAP Business All-in-One offers best practices for pre-configured industry functionality in a defined package that can be rapidly implemented without complex adaptations. Ecosystem Embraces Planned Alliance SAP partners are free to make the intended offering part of their services portfolio, and it is already being heralded by the SAP partner ecosystem.

"The offering and the aligned components will provide SME customers with an excellent on-premise solution that is instantly ready to use, providing a very attractive TCO," said Sangita Singh, SVP and head EAS, Wipro Technologies, an SAP global services partner. "As a partner, we could rely on an aligned solution with tested components that have proven themselves with thousands of customers. We would be delighted to offer our solution in the Indian market, as we are convinced that there is both a great demand for and interest in the solution."

Built-In Innovation

With the easy-to-use solution configurator, prospective customers can quickly configure the SAP Business All-in-One solution according to their needs and immediately receive a cost estimation* for the solution, including SAP MaxDB, based on SUSE Linux, the Intel(R) Xeon(R)-based server systems as well as implementation.

"The intended offering is another compelling example of how SAP collaborates with its continuously growing partner ecosystem to develop attractive business application packages with built-in innovation," said Hans-Peter Klaey, president, Global SME and corporate officer, SAP AG. "I am confident that this package will simplify the deployment and use of on-premise solutions, drive adoption of integrated business solutions in the SME market and further deliver the best value to our customers."

SAP solutions for companies of all sizes can be seen at Booth D12 in Hall 4, at CeBIT 2008, being held March 4 - 9, 2008.

For more information on SAP solutions for small business and midsize companies, please visit http://www:sap.com/sme. For more information on the fast-start program for SAP Business All-in-One, see February 25, 2008 press release titled, "SAP Offers Innovative Approach to Faster Business Software Adoption for Midsize Companies."

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Expansion of Ecosystem Drives Global SAP(R) Business ByDesign(TM) Solution MomentumSAP Continues Rollout of Most Complete On-Demand Solution in Key Geographic Markets; New Group of 'Early Partners' Endorse SAP Business ByDesign Approach

HANOVER, Germany, March 4 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Continuing to drive its rollout of SAP(R) Business ByDesign(TM), the most complete and adaptable on-demand business solution addressing the specific needs of rapidly growing midsize companies, SAP AG today announced 21 additional respected IT service providers from China, France, Germany and the United Kingdom have assigned to commit themselves to accompany SAP in its phased go-to-market approach. Of these "early partners," 16 companies have tremendous experience serving the needs of small businesses and midsize companies with the SAP(R) Business One application and the SAP(R) Business All-in-One solution. In addition to these existing SAP partners who intend to expand their established business with a new model dedicated to volume business, five new companies have expressed their intention to join forces with SAP with the plan to grow their businesses with SAP Business ByDesign. These companies include MyNet Co Ltd. and Inventec Service Co. Ltd. from China as well as ALPHA Business Solutions AG, GUS Group and PORTOLAN Commerce Solutions GmbH from Germany. Representing key target regions across EMEA and Asia, all these IT service providers intend to work closely with SAP to market the SAP Business ByDesign solution, enabling midsize companies to quickly and cost-effectively reap value from this on-demand business solution. The announcement was made at CeBIT 2008, the world's leading information technology showcase, being held in Hanover, Germany, March 4-9.

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SAP Business ByDesign is an entirely new addition to the SAP solution portfolio for small businesses and midsize companies and focuses on a new, additional market segment at the lower end of the midmarket. With its on-demand deployment model, customers benefit from ease-of use, high availability, full integration and reduced costs for maintenance, testing and upgrades. With this announcement, there are now 43 "early partners" working closely with SAP to address the un-met needs of midsize companies (see October 29, 2007 press release titled, "SAP Announces U.S. Partners to Sign Up to Assist Delivery of SAP(R) Business ByDesign(TM) to Midmarket").

"As a market leader in the pharmaceutical industry, we are close to the market and know exactly what midsize customers in this particular segment require," said Heinz-Paul Bonn, chairman of the board, GUS Group. "We consider GUS and SAP a perfect fit since we strongly believe in the software-as-a-service business model and regard SAP Business ByDesign as a great platform for international markets."

Ecosystem Strengthens Business ByDesign Partner Program

By working closely with SAP, upcoming and existing partners will add tremendous knowledge and know-how to the SAP Business ByDesign partner program. ALPHA Business Solutions AG, a German system integrator, is a new partner of SAP and also resells non-SAP enterprise resource planning (ERP) software.

"SAP Business ByDesign is an ideal addition to our current solution portfolio," said Michael Finkler, chief executive officer, ALPHA Business Solutions AG. "We believe this will help us address a new market segment to enhance our business growth. The new solution allows us to offer a subscription-based-on-demand model. In 14 years of consulting engagements with midmarket customers, we often have realized that companies require an integrated business suite, but do not have in-house access to necessary IT resources. SAP Business ByDesign will help those customers to get a top-notch business solution."

Partners clearly recognize the tremendous market opportunities for SAP Business ByDesign -- and for their own businesses.

"Partners will play a key role in the success of SAP Business ByDesign," said Hans-Peter Klaey, president, Global SME, SAP AG. "SAP Business ByDesign introduces a new business model along with the existing SME portfolio -- extending our successful portfolio and providing entirely new opportunities for partners. SAP is dedicating significant resources to ensure that our partners are well-equipped to effectively roll out the new solution and cater to growing customer interest."

SAP Channel Growth Flourishes

New SAP Business ByDesign "early partners" across the initial geographic rollout regions include:

China (5) -- CDP Group Co Ltd. -- headquartered in Shanghai, has been an HR BPO partner for Greater China, Asia-Pacific and Japan, with an expertise in the high-tech, retail, services, consumer products and chemicals industries -- Inventec Service Co. Ltd. -- headquartered in Shanghai, is a world-leading OEM/ODM provider for notebooks, servers, mobile devices and IT outsourcing services -- MyNet Co Ltd. -- headquartered in Beijing, focuses on the manufacturing and consumer products industry and will be a new partner to SAP -- TechSonic Information Technology Co., Ltd. -- headquartered in Shanghai with sales offices throughout China, enables clients across all industries with SAP Business One -- Unis-Beyondsoft Business Application Software & Service Co. Ltd. -- headquartered in Beijing, is part of a large IT conglomerate and an SAP Business One and SAP Business All-in-One partner, servicing cross-industry customers France (5) -- Artaud Courtheoux & Associes -- headquartered in Paris, works with high-tech, public sector and aerospace and defense customers with SAP Business One -- ERT Integration -- headquartered in Bievres, is an SAP Business One partner servicing customers in the wholesale and discrete manufacturing industries -- Infoclip -- headquartered in Paris, focuses on the professional services and wholesale industry with SAP Business One -- Micropole-Univers -- headquartered in Paris with offices in the United Kingdom and Switzerland, pursues a cross-industry approach and shows strong expertise in business intelligence, CRM, e-business and ERP solutions -- Viseo -- headquartered in Paris, with offices in Germany, Morocco and the United States, offers SAP Business One and SAP Business All-in-One to companies in the retail, process and manufacturing industries Germany (8) -- ALPHA Business Solutions AG -- headquartered in Kaiserslautern, is a specialist in the manufacturing industry -- Data One GmbH -- headquartered in Saarbrucken, works with professional services, wholesale and manufacturing customers with SAP Business All-in-One -- GUS Group -- headquartered in Cologne, currently offers its own set of ERP solutions for the food, pharmaceuticals and cosmetics, chemistry, and logistics industries, and intends to enlarge its solution portfolio with SAP Business ByDesign -- IDS Scheer AG -- headquartered in Saarbrucken, an international SAP Business All-in-One partner who in this field focuses on solutions in the discrete and process industries, including capital goods, chemical and pharmaceuticals, consumer and professional services industries -- KINAMU Deutschland GmbH -- headquartered in Munich, an SAP channel partner for SAP Business All-in-One, provides midmarket companies with ERP and CRM solutions, combining open source products and SAP solutions -- ORGA GmbH -- headquartered in Karlsruhe, delivers SAP Business All-in-One solutions to customers from the media, professional services and manufacturing industries, ORGA is part of the FIDUCIA Group -- PORTOLAN Commerce Solutions GmbH -- headquartered in Ilsfeld, serves customers in the professional services arena with SAP Business All-in-One -- UNIORG Services GmbH -- headquartered in Dortmund, enables clients in the wholesale, manufacturing and professional services industries to better manage their business with SAP Business One United Kingdom (3) -- AlphaGen Group -- headquartered in London, provides wholesale and distribution, light manufacturing and professional services businesses using SAP Business One -- Chelford SAP Solutions Ltd -- headquartered in Basingstoke with 50 customers, has delivered over 10 years a broad range of unique SAP Business All-in-One solutions customized for various industries, including consumer products and wholesale distribution -- Sapphire Systems Plc -- headquartered in London, offers SAP Business One throughout the United Kingdom to international organizations, wholesale distributors and media organizations.

SAP solutions for companies of all sizes can be seen at Booth D12 in Hall 4, at CeBIT 2008, being held March 4-9, 2008.

About SAP

SAP is the world's leading provider of business software*. Today, more than 46,100 customers in more than 120 countries run SAP(R) applications-from distinct solutions addressing the needs of small businesses and midsize companies to suite offerings for global organizations. Powered by the SAP NetWeaver(R) technology platform to drive innovation and enable business change, SAP software helps enterprises of all sizes around the world improve customer relationships, enhance partner collaboration and create efficiencies across their supply chains and business operations. SAP solution portfolios support the unique business processes of more than 25 industries, including high tech, retail, financial services, healthcare and the public sector. With subsidiaries in more than 50 countries, the company is listed on several exchanges, including the Frankfurt stock exchange and NYSE under the symbol "SAP." (Additional information at http://www.sap.com/)

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euNetworks Expands its IP|nex Range of High-Performance Global IP Solutions

DUBLIN, Ireland, March 4 /PRNewswire/ --

euNetworks (SGX: H23.SI), owner and operator of one of Europe's highest capacity fiber networks and provider of mission-critical communication infrastructure and services, today announced that it has expanded its IP|nex product range. The expansion will bolster the redundancy of its next generation suite of scalable, high-performance, Internet Protocol (IP) solutions through IP Transit provided by Global Crossing (Nasdaq: GLBC).

The industry-wide shift to all IP communications, whether for voice, video or data communications, has created a huge challenge to deliver scalable, high-performance IP access, in a redundant, zero-downtime environment. IP|nex enables corporates, carriers and service providers to harness the power of IP for rapid, low-cost and high-performance access to information and connect regions, customers and partners.

IP|nex simultaneously consolidates multiple IP Transit providers through one connection to the client. It taps into Tier-1 global IP providers including Global Crossing, among others, depending on the client's requirements. It also delivers real-time optimization of traffic routing for maximum performance and minimal latency through its more than 10,000 peering relationships and customers can enjoy a single service level agreement (SLA), centralized control management, one bill and one point of contact for global IP solutions.

euNetworks can deliver IP|nex door to door through its wholly-owned, low-latency pan-European network. Constructed at a cost of euro 1.3 billion, euNetworks owns and operates one of Europe's highest-capacity fiber-optic networks that combines "long-haul" fiber networks (Germany, Netherlands, United Kingdom, France and Belgium) with "last-mile" (Frankfurt, Munich, Berlin, Stuttgart, Hanover, Hamburg, Dusseldorf, Cologne, Paris, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, The Hague, Utrecht, London and Dublin). In addition IP|nex will be offered via the recently announced euro-one alliance -- a collaboration of Europe's leading fiber-optic network providers to deliver infrastructure and next-generation networking solutions connecting Central, Eastern, Western Europe and North America, connecting more than 350 cities through more than 1,000 points of presence.

IP|nex suite of services include IP Transit for the fastest, most redundant Internet transit and VPN|nex for fully managed, highly secure, global VPNs.

Global Crossing is one of the leading providers of IP solutions worldwide and operates an integrated global IP-based network, connecting more than 390 cities in 30 countries around the globe. Consequently, customers are not only enabled with euNetworks' extensive pan-European all-fiber network, but also allied to a secure global IP platform, providing scalable, high performance IP transit connectivity with minimum hop, minimum latency and minimum packet loss -- all under the highest industry service level agreements.

Anthony Christie, managing director, EMEA for Global Crossing said: "As operator of the world's largest, wholly owned, fully converged native IP network, we're uniquely positioned to deliver to the most exacting requirements demanded by euNetworks and their expanding customer base. We're delighted that euNetworks has selected Global Crossing as provider of reliable IP Transit."

Albrecht Kraas, chief technology officer at euNetworks said: "As communications and applications converge, the ability to guarantee high availability becomes critical. euNetworks, through its ownership of an all-fiber network in Europe, is now allied to a multi-homed, highly redundant IP platform delivered by a select blend of Tier 1 providers under a single SLA."

About euNetworks

euNetworks owns and operates one of Europe's highest capacity fiber networks and provides mission critical communication infrastructure and services to large corporations, carriers, and service providers. Constructed at a cost in excess of euro 1.3 billion, euNetworks' all-fiber optic network uniquely combines "long-haul" inter-city network linking Europe's largest economies, with high density "last-mile" metropolitan fiber networks in 15 of Europe's leading cities. euNetworks was recently awarded the prestigious title of "Best New Entrant" by leading telecommunications publication, Capacity Magazine. The award was granted to euNetworks following their acquisition of a pan-European fiber network thus extending their unique proposition of delivering private fiber networks -- an offering the judges felt is of immense value to large corporations and carriers alike. euNetworks is a member of euro-one -- a unique collaboration fiber-optic network providers to deliver infrastructure and next generation networking solutions, connecting Eastern, Central and Western Europe and North America (www.euro-one.com). For further information please visit www.euNetworks.com.

ABOUT GLOBAL CROSSING

Global Crossing (Nasdaq: GLBC) provides telecommunications solutions over the world's first integrated global IP-based network. Its core network connects approximately 390 cities in more than 30 countries worldwide, and delivers services to approximately 690 cities in more than 60 countries and 6 continents around the globe. The company's global sales and support model matches the network footprint and, like the network, delivers a consistent customer experience worldwide.

Global Crossing IP services are global in scale, linking the world's enterprises, governments and carriers with customers, employees and partners worldwide in a secure environment that is ideally suited for IP-based business applications, allowing e-commerce to thrive. The company offers a full range of data, voice and security products to approximately 40 percent of the Fortune 500, as well as 700 carriers, mobile operators and ISPs. Its Professional Services and Managed Solutions provide VoIP, security and network consulting and management services to support its Global Crossing IP VPN service and Global Crossing VoIP services. Global Crossing was the first global communications provider with IPv6 natively deployed in both its private and public backbone networks.

Please visit www.globalcrossing.com or blogs.globalcrossing.com/ for more information about Global Crossing.

Statements in this press release about expected future events and financial results are forward-looking and subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause the actual results to differ materially, including risks referenced from time to time in the company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Global Crossing undertakes no duty to update information contained in this press release or in other public disclosures at any time.

CONTACT EUNETWORKS: Pia Schmitz +49-69-90554-0 marketing@euNetworks.com CONTACT GLOBAL CROSSING: Press Contacts Becky Yeamans +1-973-937-0155 PR@globalcrossing.com Jo Graves Europe +44-(0)-1256-732387 EuropePR@globalcrossing.com Analysts/Investors Contact Suzanne Lipton +1-800-836-0342 glbc@globalcrossing.com

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Supermicro Showcases OfficeBlade(TM), DatacenterBlade(TM) Server and Whisper-Quiet 28dB Workstation at CeBIT 2008Green Solutions with Industry-Leading Energy Efficiency

SAN JOSE, Calif., March 4 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Super Micro Computer, Inc. , a leader in application optimized, high-performance server and workstation solutions, is showcasing its latest SuperBlade(TM) server and high-performance whisper-quiet (28dB*) workstation technologies at CeBIT 2008 in Hannover, Germany, March 4-9 in hall 21, stand B46, booth A1. With 93%* peak power supply efficiency, Supermicro's SuperBlade(TM) is the industry's most energy-efficient and earth-friendly family of blade servers. In addition, the SuperWorkstation 7045A-C3, based on the new Intel(R) 5100 (San Clemente) chipset, is the quietest high-performance workstation in its class.

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"We are showcasing over 40 of our latest server and workstation motherboards plus more than 20 server and workstation systems including our whisper-quiet (28dB) workstations. For the ultimate in energy efficiency (93%) and server technologies, we are showcasing two new SuperBlade(TM) server systems -- OfficeBlade(TM), optimized for office environments (< 50dB*), and DatacenterBlade(TM), optimized for data centers and HPC with support for 14 blades in a 7U enclosure," said Charles Liang, CEO and president of Supermicro. "Leading the way in green technology, our earth-friendly servers and workstations feature innovative power supply and thermal subsystem designs to achieve exceptional system-level energy efficiency. Our customers benefit with substantial energy savings and lower TCO."

OfficeBlade(TM) (SBE-710Q-R42) is ideal for SMB (small-medium businesses) as well as personal supercomputing applications. With acoustically optimized thermal and cooling technologies it achieves <50dB with 10 DP server blades and features 100-240VAC, ultra high-efficiency (93%), N+1 redundant power supplies.

DatacenterBlade(TM) (SBE-714D-R42) is perfect for data center and HPC applications with performance & density optimization to achieve 672 processing cores and 4TB DDR2 memory per 42U standard rack. This powerful SuperBlade(TM) features 100-240VAC, ultra high-efficiency (93%), N+1 redundant power supplies, along with industry-leading density, performance/watt and price/performance.

Supermicro's latest SuperWorkstations feature innovative new whisper-quiet complete system designs, implementing acoustically optimized thermal technology to achieve 28dB, which is quieter than the sound level of a whisper-quiet library environment. These systems provide an impressive array of important customer benefits including a 30%* boost in performance and sharply increased energy savings with new high-efficiency power supplies featuring patented redundant cooling and energy-saving memory systems.

Other earth-friendly products on display in Supermicro's booth at CeBIT include several new high-performance 2.5" server chassis, Seaburg systems running energy-saving 1.5-volt FBD memory, 1U Twin(TM) server with two nodes in 1U, and a number of low-power San Clemente chipset-based systems running energy-efficient DDR2 memory. Those interested in HPC and virtualization can check out a Microsoft Compute Cluster Server blade solution and a SuperServer with embedded VMware(R) ESX Server 3i virtualization software running in the Supermicro booth at CeBIT. For high-performance yet cost-effective networking, Supermicro also offers low-latency InfiniBand and 10GbE networking solutions.

Supermicro Server Building Block Solutions(R) offer exceptional flexibility and feature advantages. To see Supermicro's server and workstation solutions please visit hall 21, stand B46, booth A1 at CeBIT, or go to http://www.supermicro.com/.

About Super Micro Computer, Inc.

Supermicro emphasizes superior product design and uncompromising quality control to produce industry-leading serverboards, chassis and server systems. These Server Building Block Solutions provide benefits across many environments, including data center deployment, high-performance computing, high-end workstations, storage networks and standalone server installations. For more information on Supermicro's complete line of advanced motherboards, SuperServers, and optimized chassis, visit http://www.Supermicro.com, email Marketing@Supermicro.com or call the San Jose, CA headquarters at +1 408-503-8000.

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Top French University Protects its Activities With Radware's DefensePro

MAHWAH, New Jersey, March 4 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- - The Conservatoire National des Arts et Metiers (National Conservatory of the Arts and Business) Selects Radware's Multi-Layer Intrusion Prevention and Denial of Service Solution to Ensure Business Continuity and Security

Radware , the leading provider of integrated application delivery solutions for business-smart networking, today announced that the CNAM (the National Conservatory of the Arts and Business), has selected its DefensePro security solution to protect its network, users and activities against known and unknown attacks.

The CNAM is a major French public institution, with a scientific, cultural and professional focus. Since its creation in 1794, it has fulfilled three missions: providing life-long training, undertaking research in technology and innovation and disseminating a culture of science and technology. Eighty thousand students take courses offered by the CNAM throughout France, and nearly 2,000 staff, instructors and administrative personnel contribute to the success of this institution.

The security of its network is therefore essential. The CNAM needs to effectively manage its activities and provide the expected computer services to its students and staff. Its original security solution was difficult to maintain as it was based on restricting access at the equipment level. It was the source of errors and required a full-time employee to manage it. "Every six months, we found ourselves under attack," explained Denis Coree, DSI (Director of Computer Systems), CNAM. "Our IT system was hit hard and we experienced service interruptions for nearly a week. However, with the global overhaul of our security, we have not experienced any interruptions. Using DefensePro has enabled us to stop attacks before they even get through to our IT system."

Radware's DefensePro solution provides protection against intrusion and DoS attacks at the application-, network- and server-levels. Using behavioral analysis, it works from the core of the network through to the perimeter - all without human intervention. The bandwidth management and access control features enable traffic filtering which guarantees the availability and level of service necessary for critical applications.

"By blocking illegal incoming traffic, we can avoid bottlenecks and increase productivity," Denis Coree emphasized. "This security solution, which was deployed a year ago, has met all of our expectations. The support and understanding provided by Radware's teams was flawless throughout deployment."

Radware's DefensePro solution was deployed at the CNAM to:

- Protect applications: signature analysis includes the protection of web servers, messaging services, database services, VoIP infrastructure components and the protection of workstations against Microsoft weaknesses such as worms, spyware, bots, Trojan horses, etc.;

- Analyze network behavior: provides advanced zero-day protection against known, unknown and DoS attacks, and blocks the propagation of zero-day attacks. The method of detection is based on the behavioral analysis of user traffic and maintains business continuity even when the network is under attack;

- Analyze application behavior (at the network level): DoS and HTTP flooding attacks are identified and mitigated using behavioral analysis. Attacks are blocked without blocking legitimate user traffic.

The CNAM also uses reporting and monitoring capabilities which increase visibility of the blocked attacks in real-time and control network security by adjusting protection at the network layer. Combined with APSolute Insite the solution provides historical attack and strategic reports.

About Radware

Radware , the global leader in integrated application delivery solutions, assures the full availability, maximum performance, and complete security of business-critical applications for more than 5,000 enterprises and carriers worldwide. With APSolute(TM), Radware's comprehensive and award-winning suite of intelligent front-end, access, and security products, companies in every industry can drive business productivity, improve profitability, and reduce IT operating and infrastructure costs by making their networks "business smart." For more information, please visit http://www.radware.com/.

This press release may contain forward-looking statements that are subject to risks and uncertainties. Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from these forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, general business conditions in the Application Switching or Network Security industry, changes in demand for Application Switching or Network Security products, the timing and amount or cancellation of orders and other risks detailed from time to time in Radware's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including Radware's Form 20-F.

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Nokia to Bring Microsoft Silverlight Powered Experiences to Millions of Mobile UsersExtends Choice for Developers on the World's Leading Mobile Platforms

ESPOO, Finland, March 4 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Nokia today announced plans to make Microsoft Silverlight available for S60 on Symbian OS, the world's leading smartphone software(1), as well as for Series 40 devices and Nokia Internet tablets. Adding support for Silverlight will extend opportunities for developers to create rich, interactive applications that run on multiple platforms in a consistent and reliable way.

"Today's consumers are very clear in what they want: easy access to tightly integrated services and data on any device," said Lee Williams, Senior Vice President in Nokia's Devices software organization. "Nokia's software strategy is based on cross-platform development environments, enabling the creation of rich applications across the Nokia device range. Nokia aims to support market leading and content rich internet application environments and to embrace and encourage open innovation. By working with Microsoft, we are creating terrific opportunities and additional choices for the development community, S60 licensees and the industry as a whole."

Silverlight is a cross-browser, cross-platform plug-in for delivering next-generation media experiences and rich interactive applications. Silverlight is already powering thousands of applications around the world and organizations including Entertainment Tonight, the NBA and NBC Universal to deliver superior Web-based experiences to their customers. The arrangement with Nokia will substantially extend the reach of Silverlight by making the platform available for hundreds of millions of devices, including S60 on Symbian smartphones from a range of manufacturers, as well as Nokia Series 40 devices and Nokia Internet tablets.

"This is an important relationship on so many levels. Working with Nokia means we are easily able to reach a huge number of mobile users, including customers of all S60 licensees. This is a significant step in gaining broad acceptance for Silverlight and ensuring it is platform agnostic. This is critical since we want to make sure developers and designers don't have to constantly recreate the wheel and build different versions of applications and services for multiple operating systems, browsers and platforms," said S. Somasegar, Senior Vice President of Microsoft's Developer Division.

"There is clear market demand for rich, Web-based services across a variety of device types, but developing these can often be commercially difficult. For Microsoft this extends Silverlight to a broader range of vendors, platforms and devices. For Nokia it expands the web runtime options on its devices, enabling a wider community of developers and more applications. This should help the uptake of higher speed mobile services and advance a new era of anytime, anywhere device-based computing", said Bola Rotibi , Principal Analyst at Ovum.

Microsoft will demonstrate Silverlight on S60 during the opening keynote at Microsoft's MIX08 conference on March 5 in Las Vegas. Silverlight is intended to be available to S60 developers later this year with initial service delivery anticipated shortly thereafter for all S60 licensees. This will allow S60 application developers to use an even wider range of development environments for S60 on Symbian OS than today. Today S60 developers can use: C++ (using native Symbian OS APIs and Open C providing subset of standard POSIX libraries), S60 Web Run-time (supporting standards-based web technologies such as Ajax, JavaScript, CSS and HTML), the Java(TM) language, Flash Lite from Adobe, and Python.

Microsoft Silverlight availability for Nokia Series 40 devices and Nokia Internet tablets will be confirmed later.

(1) S60 has already shipped on more smartphones than any other platform, enabling users to access and enjoy the Internet and Internet services. S60 covers the broadest product portfolio, with devices for a variety of segments and needs from different audiences. S60 is the clear leader in converged device software with over 53% market share globally in Q4 2007 according to the latest Canalys report (January 2008).

About S60

S60 software built on Symbian OS is the world's leading smartphone software, and is licensed by some of the industry's foremost mobile device manufacturers. More than 150 million S60 devices had been shipped by all licensees by January 2008. The flexibility of the S60 software allows for various hardware designs and software configurations, as evidenced by the multitude of S60 devices already available on the market. Through its award-winning user interface, extensive support for new mobile services and the innovation potential for partner solutions, the S60 provides an open and scalable business opportunity for mobile operators and 3rd party developers. For further information and news about the S60 and the S60 community, please visit http://www.s60.com/.

About Nokia

Nokia is the world leader in mobility, driving the transformation and growth of the converging Internet and communications industries. Nokia makes a wide range of mobile devices and provides people with experiences in music, navigation, video, television, imaging, games and business mobility through these devices. Nokia also provides equipment, solutions and services for communications networks.

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CONTACT: Media Enquiries: Nokia, CDO Communications, Tel.
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Motion Network Concludes Partnership Deal With Komuna

ZUG, Switzerland, March 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Swiss Hawk AG's portfolio company Motion Network Holding Plc ("MNH") continues its policy to implement local partnerships in Europe to create country platforms in charge of domestic advertising sales, local content production and e-commerce solutions. MNH has announced that it has concluded a local partnership deal with Komuna to create a Balkan regional platform for the exploitation of the following territories: Serbia, Montenegro, Kosovo, Bosnia, Croatia, Macedonia, Albania and Romania. Mr Maksa Catovic (prominent Serbian producer) will run the business for the Balkan region.

MNH will be the majority shareholder with a 55% shareholding in the new partnership entity and will supply 90% of subtitled programs in the Balkan regions, common programmes for global Europe.

Komuna will make the most of this peculiar and diverse region. Komuna's CEO Mr Maksa Catovic is an experienced movie producer who has produced such international box office films as "Underground" and "Black Cat, White Cat" by Emir Kusturica. Komuna is considered to be the leading Yugoslav independent TV program producer and has produced a wide range of TV programs (music programs, documentaries on music and TV series). Mr Catovic has created an integrated media company - movie, TV, music, publishing - thus Komuna is the ideal partner for MNTV in the Balkan region.

"Today MNH is in advanced talks with major partners in all regions of Europe; the aim is to have partners with the same profile as Komuna, integrated companies with vertical businesses and distribution or sales network already running" said Christophe K. Kourdouly exec VP MNH

About Komuna

Komuna is an integrated entertainment company. Komuna is the leading Yugoslav independent TV program and movie producer. It also produces music (both records and concerts) and publishes books and comics. Komuna's expertise covers the whole ex-Yugoslavian region. For further information visit http://www.komuna.com.

About Motion Network Holding Plc ("MNH")

MNH operates in the sector of communication and provides B2C and B2B services in the area of Television, IPTV, Internet, media content production and post production, software and retail. MNH operating services cover mostly Europe, Far East and the US. MNH's wholly owned Luxembourg subsidiary Motion Network TV ("MNTV") is the main group company that operates as a pan European film and music dedicated TV channel. For further information visit http://www.motionnetworktv.com.

About Swiss Hawk AG

Swiss Hawk AG is building an alternative asset investment company focused on the environmental technology sector. The company pursues an aggressive investment policy based on actively investing and trading mainly in late stage pre-IPO and IPOs with high-growth potential and planned short term exit. Swiss Hawk is listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange Open Market.

For further information contact: Christophe Kourdouly, MNH/Antetime Tel: +33-1-72-100213/214 Pranee Schneider Tel: +41-41-511-0198 Email: contact@swisshawk.com

Swiss Hawk AG

For further information contact: Christophe Kourdouly, MNH/Antetime, Tel: +33-1-72-100213/214; Pranee Schneider, Tel: +41-41-511-0198, Email: contact@swisshawk.com

Supermicro Showcases OfficeBlade(TM), DatacenterBlade(TM) Server and Whisper-Quiet 28dB Workstation at CeBIT 2008

SAN JOSE, California, March 4 /PRNewswire/ --

- Green Solutions with Industry-Leading Energy Efficiency

Super Micro Computer, Inc. (Nasdaq: SMCI), a leader in application optimized, high-performance server and workstation solutions, is showcasing its latest SuperBlade(TM) server and high-performance whisper-quiet (28dB(i)) workstation technologies at CeBIT 2008 in Hannover, Germany, March 4-9 in hall 21, stand B46, booth A1. With 93%(i) peak power supply efficiency, Supermicro's SuperBlade(TM) is the industry's most energy-efficient and earth-friendly family of blade servers. In addition, the SuperWorkstation 7045A-C3, based on the new Intel(R) 5100 (San Clemente) chipset, is the quietest high-performance workstation in its class.

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"We are showcasing over 40 of our latest server and workstation motherboards plus more than 20 server and workstation systems including our whisper-quiet (28dB) workstations. For the ultimate in energy efficiency (93%) and server technologies, we are showcasing two new SuperBlade(TM) server systems -- OfficeBlade(TM), optimized for office environments (< 50dB(i)), and DatacenterBlade(TM), optimized for data centers and HPC with support for 14 blades in a 7U enclosure," said Charles Liang, CEO and president of Supermicro. "Leading the way in green technology, our earth-friendly servers and workstations feature innovative power supply and thermal subsystem designs to achieve exceptional system-level energy efficiency. Our customers benefit with substantial energy savings and lower TCO."

OfficeBlade(TM) (SBE-710Q-R42) is ideal for SMB (small-medium businesses) as well as personal supercomputing applications. With acoustically optimized thermal and cooling technologies it achieves < 50dB with 10 DP server blades and features 100-240VAC, ultra high-efficiency (93%), N+1 redundant power supplies.

Supermicro's latest SuperWorkstations feature innovative new whisper-quiet complete system designs, implementing acoustically optimized thermal technology to achieve 28dB, which is quieter than the sound level of a whisper-quiet library environment. These systems provide an impressive array of important customer benefits including a 30%(i) boost in performance and sharply increased energy savings with new high-efficiency power supplies featuring patented redundant cooling and energy-saving memory systems.

About Super Micro Computer, Inc. (NASDAQ: SMCI)

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Web site: http://www.Supermicro.com

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Supermicro présente ses OfficeBlade, DatacenterBlade ainsi que sa station graphique Whisper-Quiet 28dB au CeBIT 2008

SAN JOSE, Californie, March 4 /PRNewswire/ --

- Des solutions écologiques avec l'efficacité énergétique industrielle

Super Micro Computer Inc. (NASDAQ : SMCI) un leader en applications optimisées, serveurs de haute performance et solutions pour stations graphiques, présente son tout dernier serveur SuperBlade ainsi que les très performantes stations graphiques Whisper-quiet (28dB) au CeBIT 2008 à Hanovre (Allemagne) du 4 au 9 mars, hall 21, stand B46, cabine A1. Avec 93 % d'efficacité d'alimentation, SuperBlade de Supermicro est la famille de serveurs la plus écologique de l'industrie. De surcroît, la station graphique 7045A-C3, basée sur le nouveau chipset Intel 5100 (San Clemente), est la plus silencieuse des stations graphiques de haute performance dans sa catégorie.

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<< Nous présentons plus de 40 de nos derniers serveurs et cartes mères de stations graphiques, cela sans compter plus de 20 serveurs et systèmes de stations graphiques incluant notre station graphique Whisper-quiet (28dB). Pour un maximum d'efficacité énergétique (93 %) et des technologies de serveur optimales, nous présentons également deux nouveaux systèmes de serveurs SuperBlade : OfficeBlade optimisé pour des applications de bureaux (<50dB) et DatacenterBlade optimisé pour des bases de données et HPC avec un support pour 14 lames dans une enceinte de 4U >>, nous dit Charles Liang, CEO et président de Supermicro. << Ouvrant la voie à la technologie vert, nos serveurs écologiques et stations graphiques fournissent un système d'alimentation novateur ainsi que de nouveaux designs pour les sous-systèmes thermiques afin d'atteindre une exceptionnelle efficacité énergétique dans les niveaux de système. Nos clients bénéficient ainsi d'économies d'énergie substantielles et d'une TCO plus basse.

OfficeBlade (SBE-710Q-R42) s'adapte aussi bien aux SMB (small and medium businesses) qu'aux applications personnelles intensives. Avec des technologies de refroidissement et d'optimisation acoustique il procure moins 50dB avec 10 DP serveur-lames et fournit 100-240VAC, une très haute efficacité énergétique (93%), et un système d'alimentation redondant N+1.

DatacenterBlade (SBE-714-R42) est parfait pour les applications de bases de données et HPC avec une optimisation de la performance et de la densité pour arriver à 672 coeurs analysant et à une mémoire de 4TB DDR2 par rack standard de 42U. Ce puissant SuperBlade fournit 100-240 VAC, une très haute efficacité (93 %), un système d'alimentation N+1, allant avec une densité industrielle, une performance/watt et un prix/performance.

Les dernières stations graphiques de Supermicro se caractérisent par des designs innovants pour le nouveau système whisper-quiet au complet, est ajoutée à cela la technologie thermale acoustiquement optimisée pour atteindre 28dB qui correspond à un niveau de son plus bas que celui existant dans l'environnement d'une bibliothèque calme et silencieuse. Ces systèmes permettent aux clients de réaliser d'importants bénéfices, incluant une augmentation de 30 % de la performance et des économies d'énergies améliorées avec des nouveaux systèmes d'alimentation de haute efficacité présentant des systèmes mémoires économiques et à refroidissement redondant.

D'autres produits écologiques présentés dans la cabine Supermicro au CeBIT incluent plusieurs nouveaux châssis de 2,5'' de haute performance, des systèmes Seaburg fonctionnant avec une mémoire économique énergétiquement de 1.5-volt FBD, un serveur 1U Twin avec deux noeuds dans 1U et un nombre de systèmes à faible énergie San Clemente basé sur un chipset et fonctionnant avec la mémoire efficace énergétiquement DDR2. Ceux intéressés par le HPC et la virtualisation peuvent jeter un coÃ»t d'oeil au groupe de solutions serveurs Microsoft Compute ainsi qu'au SuperServer avec le software de virtualisation ESX Server 3i VMware implanté et fonctionnant en cabine Supermicro au CeBIT. Pour une haute performance sur des réseaux peu coÃ»teux, Supermicro propose également une Infiniband à basse latence et des solutions réseaux à 10 GbE.

Les solutions de modules de serveurs Supermicro offrent une flexibilité et des avantages exceptionnels. Pour plus d'informations sur la gamme complète des solutions de serveurs Supermicro, veuillez consulter le site www.supermicro.com.

Concernant Supermicro Computer, Inc. (NASDAQ : SMCI)

Etabli en 1993, Supermicro s'est concentré sur la conception de produits au design supérieur et sur la mise en place d'un contrôle qualité rigoureux afin de produire des cartes mères, châssis et serveurs de haute gamme. Ses modules de serveurs apportent des bénéfices dans de nombreux domaines, incluant des centres de bases de données, des calculs intensifs, des stations graphiques de haut niveau, de stockage et installations de serveurs. Pour plus d'informations sur la gamme complète des cartes-mères, superserveurs et châssis Supermicro, veuillez consulter le site www.supermicro.com ou écrire à l'adresse suivante : marketing@supermicro.com ou encore téléphoner au +1-408-503-8000, ligne standard du siège Supermicro à San Jose CA USA.

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Site web: http://www.Supermicro.com

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Michael Kalodrich de Super Micro Computer, Inc., +1-408-503-8063, michalek@supermicro.com

Supermicro SuperBlade(TM) Servers Chosen for CERN ProjectSuperior Computational Performance, Scalability, and Power Efficiency

SAN JOSE, Calif., March 4 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Super Micro Computer, Inc. , a leader in application-optimized, high performance server solutions, today announced that its dual-processor (DP) SuperBlade(TM) servers were recently chosen by CERN (one of the world's largest research labs) for part of a significant upgrade of its computing capacity for the new LHC (Large Hadron Collider) project in Geneva. High computational performance, excellent scalability, superior energy efficiency and a competitive price/performance ratio were key factors in this prestigious selection process.

"Our success on previous CERN projects, coupled with Supermicro's industry-leading blade server technology, enabled us to distinguish ourselves from the competition," said Charles Liang, CEO and president of Supermicro. "Ideal for HPC clusters and data centers, Supermicro SuperBlade platforms deliver unsurpassed performance, computing density and energy efficiency, which saves operational costs (lower total cost of ownership) and also helps preserve our environment for future generations."

"As one of the world's leading international research centers, we are always looking to meet an ever-growing demand for computing performance, striving for maximum performance over total cost of ownership," said Helge Meinhard, coordinator for server and storage procurements, of CERN. "This is even more true this year when the LHC will start operating and producing an estimated 15 Petabytes of data each year that need to be processed. With these blade server platforms, we can efficiently realize a significant increase in computational power while minimizing our operational costs."

This latest CERN project deploys 210 Supermicro SuperBlade servers equipped with Intel(R) Xeon(R) Quad-Core processors. These servers feature Supermicro's industry-leading high-efficiency (93%*) power supplies, which help significantly increase overall system power savings.

As with some previous CERN projects, Supermicro worked closely with E4 Computer Engineering S.p.A., a highly respected supplier of major Italian and European computation and scientific research centers. Together with the supply of some storage systems, the monetary value of this order exceeds one million Euros, and it also means that E4 has now provided over 1500 total servers to CERN.

"We are proud to work with Supermicro to provide its SuperBlade solutions to CERN, one of the world's largest and most established centers for scientific research," said Vincenzo Nuti, CEO of E4 Computer Engineering. "Supermicro's blade technology is among the best in the world, our partnership with them has already achieved great results and I am sure that, thanks to the combination of E4's know-how and Supermicro's technology, we will continue to obtain extraordinary outcomes."

Supermicro Server Building Block Solutions(R) offer exceptional flexibility and outstanding feature advantages. For more information on Supermicro's complete line of server and workstation solutions go to http://www.supermicro.com/.

About Super Micro Computer, Inc.

Established in 1993, Supermicro emphasizes superior product design and uncompromising quality control to produce industry-leading serverboards, chassis and server systems. These Server Building Block solutions provide benefits across many environments, including data center deployment, high-performance computing, high-end workstations, storage networks and standalone server installations. For more information on Supermicro's complete line of advanced motherboards, SuperServers, and optimized chassis, visit http://www.Supermicro.com, email Marketing@Supermicro.com or call the San Jose, CA headquarters at +1 408-503-8000.

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* Peak power efficiency rating based on internal test results. About E4 Computer Engineering

Founded by a group of experienced professionals from the IT industry, our Company specialises in the production of high-performance Server and Workstations both for top level professional use and for small and large businesses, as well as academic and educational. E4 solutions are focused on the four aspects of Specialised Workstations, Server, Multiprocessor Servers for industrial solutions, HPC/HA clusters and PC systems for dedicated office use. By virtue of the high level of professionalism that distinguishes the Company, E4 Computer Engineering have earned the respect of prestigious companies such as Supermicro, Intel, AMD, Panasas and ICP Vortex. Working in partnership with such companies allows us to keep on top of the latest innovations and to stay on the leading edge of Information Technology trends and techniques.

Super Micro Computer, Inc.

CONTACT: Michael Kalodrich, +1-408-503-8063, michalek@supermicro.com

Web site: http://www.supermicro.com/

Seagate Ships Its Cheetah(R) 15K.6 Hard Drives for the World's Most Powerful Enterprise Storage SystemsNew systems based on the 450 gigabyte 15K-rpm Cheetah drives will deliver record performance, reliability, and dramatic reduction in power consumption.

HANOVER, Germany, March 4 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- CeBit -- Seagate Technology announced it will begin shipping its new Cheetah(R) 15K.6 hard drive this month. Designed for the world's most demanding enterprise storage environments, the Cheetah 15K.6 drive is Seagate's highest- performance hard drive ever in a 3.5-inch form factor, with a 28% increase in sustained data transfer rates compared to previous generations. With this new performance on tap, the Cheetah 15K.6 drive remarkably consumes significantly less power, using up to 61% less energy in both idle and operational modes.

Major OEM system builders including HP are working to design in the new Cheetah equipped with its leading Fibre Channel interface for HP's SAN storage systems. "HP's Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA), incorporating Seagate's latest Cheetah 15K.6 drive, will fulfill the needs of our most demanding customers running mission-critical business applications," said Kyle Fitze, director, StorageWorks SAN Marketing, at HP. "The improvements in performance, reliability, power savings, and capacity will collectively help enable our own EVA systems to deliver greater overall value to our customers."

The Cheetah 15K.6 drive also ships in Serial Attached SCSI (SAS), which has become the mainstream enterprise interface of choice for companies including Super Micro Computer, Inc. "Many of our customers require top-of- the-line performance and system efficiency," said Charles Liang, CEO and president of Supermicro. "Integrating Seagate's Cheetah 15K.6 drive into our 85%+ high-efficiency, earth-friendly SuperServers(TM) and Server Building Block Solutions(R) delivers not only superior performance, but also power savings, scalability and significantly reduced TCO."

About the Cheetah 15K.6 drives

Using second-generation perpendicular recording technology and available in capacities of 450GB, 300GB, and 147GB, the new Cheetah 15K.6 drive provides an unprecedented blend of storage capacity and performance. Add to this the highest 3.5-inch hard drive reliability in the industry at 1.6 million hours MTBF (0.55% AFR), a choice of Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) or Fibre Channel (FC) interfaces, and a 5-year warranty, and the Cheetah 15K.6 drive becomes the clear drive of choice for 3.5-inch SAN, NAS, and other transactional processing and internet applications.

The Cheetah 15K.6 drive includes Seagate PowerTrim(TM) technology which dynamically optimizes drive power consumption at all levels of activity. With PowerTrim(TM) technology, the Cheetah 15K.6 drive delivers the highest performance in its class without increasing power consumption. The Cheetah 15K.6 drive lowers idle and operational power requirements from its prior generation - as much as 61% in watts/GB - while increasing overall sustained data transfer rates by 28% at 164MB/sec.

For more information about Seagate's Cheetah family of products, visit http://www.seagate.com/.

About Seagate

Seagate is the worldwide leader in the design, manufacture and marketing of hard disc drives, providing products for a wide-range of applications, including Enterprise, Desktop, Mobile Computing, Consumer Electronics and Branded Solutions. Seagate's business model leverages technology leadership and world-class manufacturing to deliver industry-leading innovation and quality to its global customers, with the goal of being the low cost producer in all markets in which it participates. The company is committed to providing award-winning products, customer support and reliability to meet the world's growing demand for information storage. Seagate can be found around the globe and at http://www.seagate.com/.

Seagate, Seagate Technology and the Wave logo are registered trademarks of Seagate Technology LLC in the United States and/or other countries. Cheetah and PowerTrim are either trademarks or registered trademarks of Seagate Technology LLC or one of its affiliated companies in the United States and/or other countries. All other trademarks or registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners. When referring to hard drive capacity, one gigabyte, or GB, equals one billion bytes and one terabyte, or TB, equals one trillion bytes. Your computer's operating system may use a different standard of measurement and report a lower capacity. In addition, some of the listed capacity is used for formatting and other functions, and thus will not be available for data storage. Quantitative usage examples for various applications are for illustrative purposes. Actual quantities will vary based on various factors, including file size, file format, features and application software. Seagate reserves the right to change, without notice, product offerings or specifications.

Seagate Technology

CONTACT: David Szabados of Seagate, +1-831-439-2859,
david.szabados@seagate.com

Web site: http://www.seagate.com/

Supermicro SuperBlade(TM) Servers Chosen for CERN Project

SAN JOSE, California, March 4 /PRNewswire/ --

- Superior Computational Performance, Scalability, and Power Efficiency

Super Micro Computer, Inc. (Nasdaq: SMCI), a leader in application-optimized, high performance server solutions, today announced that its dual-processor (DP) SuperBlade(TM) servers were recently chosen by CERN (one of the world's largest research labs) for part of a significant upgrade of its computing capacity for the new LHC (Large Hadron Collider) project in Geneva. High computational performance, excellent scalability, superior energy efficiency and a competitive price/performance ratio were key factors in this prestigious selection process.

This latest CERN project deploys 210 Supermicro SuperBlade servers equipped with Intel(R) Xeon(R) Quad-Core processors. These servers feature Supermicro's industry-leading high-efficiency (93%(i)) power supplies, which help significantly increase overall system power savings.

About Super Micro Computer, Inc. (Nasdaq: SMCI)

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About E4 Computer Engineering

Web site: http://www.Supermicro.com

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Michael Kalodrich, +1-408-503-8063, michalek@supermicro.com

Les serveurs Supermicro choisis pour le projet CERN

SAN JOSE, Californie, March 4 /PRNewswire/ --

- Des performances informatiques supérieures, extensibilité et efficacité énergétique

Super Micro Computer Inc. (NASDAQ : SMCI), un leader en applications optimisées et solutions serveurs de haute performance a annoncé aujourd'hui que ses serveurs SuperBlade duo-processeurs ont été récemment choisis par CERN (l'un des plus grands laboratoires de recherches du monde) pour la remise à niveau de sa capacité informatique dans le cadre de son nouveau projet LHC (Large Hadron Collider) à Genève. De hautes performances informatiques, une excellente extensibilité, une efficacité énergétique supérieure ainsi qu'un ratio prix/performance compétitif furent des facteurs clés dans ce processus prestigieux de sélection.

<< Notre succès lors des précédents projets CERN combiné avec la technologie adaptée à l'industrie des serveur-lames Supermicro, nous a permis de nous distinguer dans cette compétition >>, nous dit Charles Liang, CEO et président de Supermicro. << Idéales pour des groupes et bases de données HPC, les plateformes SuperBlade Supermicro délivrent une performance incomparable, une densité de calcul et une efficacité énergétique, qui baissent les coÃ»ts opérationnels (coÃ»t total de propriété plus bas) et aident également à préserver notre environnement pour les générations futures. >>

<< Etant part des principaux centres de recherches mondiaux, nous cherchons toujours à rencontrer un demande croissante de performances informatiques avec un ratio performance/coÃ»t total de propriété optimal >>, affirme Helge Meinhard, coordinateur des départements serveur et stockage chez CERN. << Ceci est d'autant plus vrai à partir de cette année dans la mesure oÃ¹ le LHC va opérer et produire des données estimées à 15 Petabytes par an qu'il faudra traiter. Avec ces plateformes de serveur-lames, nous pouvons augmenter efficacement notre capacité de traitement tout en diminuant nos coÃ»ts opérationnels. >>

Le dernier projet CERN déploie 210 serveurs SuperBlade Supermicro équipés de processeurs Quad-Core Intel Xeon. Ces serveurs fournissent des systèmes d'alimentation particulièrement efficaces (93 %) qui permettent d'augmenter significativement les économies d'énergies réalisées sur tout le système.

Comme lors de précédents projets CERN, Supermicro a travaillé en lien étroit avec l'ingénierie S.p.A d'E4 Computer, fournisseur respecté de la plupart des sociétés informatiques italiennes et européennes ainsi que de centres de recherche scientifique. Ensemble, avec l'apport de systèmes de stockage, la valeur monétaire de cette commande excède le million d'euros, ce qui signifie que E4 a désormais également fourni un total de 1500 serveurs à CERN.

<< Nous sommes fiers de travailler avec Supermicro afin de fournir ses solutions SuperBlade à CERN qui fait partie des centres de recherche scientifique les plus grands et les plus établis dans le monde >>, affirme Vincenzo Nuti, CEO de E4 Computer Engineering. << La technologie blade de Supermicro se situe parmi les meilleures au monde, notre partenariat obtient déjà d'excellents résultats et je suis sÃ»r que grâce à la combinaison du savoir-faire d'E4 et de la technologie Supermicro, nous continuerons à observer ces résultats extraordinaires>>.

Concernant Supermicro Computer, Inc. (NASDAQ : SMCI)

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Supermicro et les solutions de modules de serveurs Supermicro sont des marques déposées et Superblade est une marque déposée de Super Micro Inc. D'autres noms et marques sont la propriété de leur possesseur respectif.

Concernant E4 Computer Engineering

Foundée par un groupe de professionnels expérimentés de l'industrie IT, notre société s'est spécialisée dans la production de serveurs et stations graphiques de haute performance servant à haut niveau professionnel aussi bien dans les petites que dans les grandes entreprises ainsi que dans les académies ou dans l'éducation. Les solutions E4 se concentrent sur 4 aspects des stations graphiques spécialisées : Serveur, Serveur multiprocesseur pour des solutions industrielles, des groupes HPC/HA et des systèmes PC dédiés à l'usage de bureau. En vertu du haut niveau de professionnalisme qui caractérise la société, E4 Computer Engineering a gagné le respect de companies prestigieuses telles que Supermicro, Intel, AMD, Panasas et ICP Vortex. Travailler en partenariat avec de telles compagnies nous permet de rester au fait des dernières innovations et d'Ãªtre au plus près des techniques et tendances de l'IT (Information Technology).

Site Web: http://www.Supermicro.com

Super Micro Computer, Inc.

Michael Kalodrich, +1-408-503-8063, michalek@supermicro.com

Microsoft Office Live Workspace Sweeping College CampusesSign up, upload and share documents to enter sweepstakes for a chance to win $100,000 that you can put toward your college education, or one of 30,000 prizes such as Xbox 360 Elite video game systems, Samsung Blackjack II Smartphone devices or 30GB Zune digital media players.

REDMOND, Wash., March 4 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Microsoft Corp. today is celebrating the public availability of Microsoft Office Live Workspace (http://workspace.officelive.com/) beta, the new Web-based extension of Microsoft Office that lets students, faculty and staff access their documents online and share their work with others. To mark the occasion, Microsoft is launching a sweepstakes for U.S.-based Office Live Workspace users, offering more than 30,000 prizes including a $100,000 grand prize that the winner could use to fund a college education, a new business or favorite charity -- the choice is up to the individual.

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Hundreds of thousands of people have signed up for the beta, and thousands of those pre-registered have been invited to provide feedback on the service. The Office team has also been working with a number of U.S. colleges and universities, including Florida Community College at Jacksonville, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Washington, the University of Wisconsin-Parkside and Vanderbilt University, where Office Live Workspace is being used by participating students, faculty members and administrators to enhance sharing and collaboration within the classroom and among student teams and extracurricular projects.

"Both in the classroom and in our IT operations, we have tried various forms of collaboration," said Matthew Jett Hall, assistant vice chancellor, information technology services and associate chief information architect of enterprise infrastructure at Vanderbilt University. "Office Live Workspace combines all of the amazing ease of use that you expect from Microsoft Office with the convenience and security of Web-based storage. The best of both worlds allows you to collaborate, edit and share in ways that previously never existed. This is a great execution of a wonderful concept."

Office Live Workspace also represents a critical collaboration component of the Microsoft Live@edu initiative. In addition to Office Live Workspace, the Live@edu program offers students and alumni 5 GB of e-mail inbox capacity, 5 GB of password-protected online storage space, shared calendars and blogging tools, and access to these services on a mobile phone, all at no cost to the school or student. The collaboration opportunity afforded by Office Live Workspace is important to allowing students and faculty to work together online. Today, the University of Wisconsin-Parkside is rolling out Office Live Workspace campuswide to its 16,000 active, continuing education and incoming students, its alumni, and its more than 700 faculty members and administrators as part of a broader Live@edu initiative. Since Microsoft Live@edu launched in March 2005, more than 600 schools in 40 countries have chosen the Live@edu suite. More information about Microsoft Live@edu can be found at http://get.live.com/edu.

Microsoft Office Live Workspace "Sweeping" Campuses

Students are using Office Live Workspace to organize study groups, work together on assignments, share class notes, and keep shared schedules and group task lists. Office Live Workspace can also be used to keep track of important information such as sports or job schedules, class registration deadlines, or progress toward degree requirements.

Jason Liu, a senior biomedical engineering student at Duke University, uses Office Live Workspace. "The majority of my engineering classes have a group project component to them where it's necessary to work on a single document together," Liu said. "As a group, we can work together more efficiently and in a more organized way by sharing documents on Office Live Workspace. We don't have to fret about who has the most up-to-date version or whether or not everybody's edits are in sync, and we don't have to coordinate our busy schedules in order to be in the same room to work on a paper together -- it's helping me lower my stress levels."

Paul Seitz, a sophomore at Pennsylvania State University studying business finance and economics, uses Office Live Workspace for document access, collaboration, group projects and any time multiple people need access to a shared document. "My roommate and I use the service to work on German assignments together, and it doesn't matter if we're in the same room, on opposite ends of campus or even in different cities for the weekend -- it's a snap to hop online and have instant access to my homework," Seitz said.

Fund a College Education, a New Business or Favorite Charity

To celebrate today's beta launch, Microsoft is also launching a nationwide sweepstakes. Participants may enter the sweepstakes starting today by registering for Office Live Workspace at http://workspace.officelive.com/. Participants can also earn up to two bonus entries to increase their chances of winning when they upload their first document to their Office Live Workspace account and the first time they share a document or workspace with anyone. The Office Live Workspace sweepstakes will run through May 11, 2008. Winners will be selected around May 15, 2008. Microsoft will award a $100,000 grand prize plus an assortment of more than 30,000 daily and weekly prizes including Xbox 360 Elite video game systems, Samsung Blackjack II Smartphone devices, 30GB Zune players, Expedia hotel and package coupons, Microsoft Office Professional 2007 and numerous other prizes. More details about the sweepstakes are online at http://www.officelive.com/workspace/sweepstakes.

Access Anywhere, Share and Extend the Microsoft Office Experience

Office Live Workspace lets people organize documents and projects online, and work on them from almost any computer. People can save more than 1,000 Microsoft Office documents to one place online,* and access and share them via the Web. People can view and comment on documents in the browser, as well as create simple Web lists and Web notes, and share documents and applications in real time through integration with Microsoft SharedView.

Microsoft Office Live Workspace is being offered free of charge. Microsoft plans to offer the beta program later this year in various languages for international markets. The company also expects to release the final public version of Office Live Workspace later in the year.

Founded in 1975, Microsoft is the worldwide leader in software, services and solutions that help people and businesses realize their full potential.

* Based on average file size and use of Word, Excel and PowerPoint by

students, work and home users.

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Microsoft Announces Worldwide Availability of Office Live Workspace BetaCustomers get immediate access to the new service that extends Microsoft Office, provides anywhere access to documents and enables sharing functionality.

REDMOND, Wash., March 4 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Microsoft Corp. today announced the public availability of Microsoft Office Live Workspace beta (http://workspace.officelive.com/), the new Web-based extension of Microsoft Office that lets people access their documents online and share their work with others. Office Live Workspace was among the first entries in the new wave of online services in Microsoft's software plus services vision previewed last fall.

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Office Live Workspace is now available worldwide in English. People can sign up for free at http://workspace.officelive.com/ and will be granted immediate access to the service. Microsoft is also unveiling a number of new Office Live Workspace features, such as an activity panel, notifications, direct links and multifile upload.

"Today's announcement moves us further down the path of bringing a software plus services experience to people at home, work and school," said Stephen Elop, president of the Microsoft Business Division. "By combining the rich client experience of Microsoft Office with flexible, intuitive service offerings, we're providing seamless computing experiences for our 500 million Office users worldwide."

Access Anywhere, Share and Extend the Microsoft Office Experience

Office Live Workspace lets people organize documents and projects online and work on them from almost any computer. People can save more than 1,000 Microsoft Office documents to one place online,* and access and share them via the Web. They can view and comment on documents in the browser as well as create simple Web lists and Web notes, and share documents in real time through integration with Microsoft SharedView.

Microsoft has also added several new features to Office Live Workspace, based in part on feedback from early beta participants:

-- Activity panel. A new activity panel shows all the activity in a workspace at a glance. -- Notifications. People can now receive e-mail notifications about changes made to their workspaces or documents. -- Direct links. People can now bookmark their workspace or a workspace item via a unique URL in a browser window. -- Multi-file upload. People can now upload several files simultaneously by simply dragging and dropping from their desktop. -- Improved sharing. New sharing functionality includes an easier user interface and auto-completion of e-mail addresses. Hundreds of Thousands Registered for Office Live Workspace

Since the unveiling of the private beta last October, hundreds of thousands of people have signed up for the beta, and thousands from the pre-registration have been invited to provide feedback on the service. The Office team has also been working with a number of U.S. colleges and universities, including Florida Community College at Jacksonville, University of Pennsylvania, the University of Washington, the University of Wisconsin-Parkside and Vanderbilt University, where it is being used by participating students, faculty members and administrators to enhance sharing and collaboration within the classroom and among student team and extracurricular projects.

"Both in the classroom and in our IT operations, we have tried various forms of collaboration," said Matthew Jett Hall, assistant vice chancellor, information technology services and associate chief information architect, enterprise infrastructure at Vanderbilt University. "Microsoft Office Live Workspace combines all the amazing ease of use that you expect from Microsoft Office with the convenience and security of Web-based storage. The best of both worlds allows you to collaborate, edit and share in ways that previously never existed. This is a great execution of a wonderful concept."

Jason Liu, a senior biomedical engineering student at Duke University, uses Office Live Workspace. "Office Live Workspace is a lifesaver. It has not only helped me get organized but also had tremendous impact on how I access and share my documents," Liu said. "With this service, keeping control of document versions as I work on my engineering research project from different computers is so much easier. I no longer have to worry about carrying a thumb drive or e-mailing files to myself, and the integration with Microsoft Office just lets me open and save files directly from and to my workspace, so there was hardly a learning curve. Access to my documents from anywhere and the ability to easily share information using Office Live Workspace -- whether in the lab, at my office on campus or at my apartment -- is truly improving my computing experience."

Office Live Workspace also represents a critical collaboration component of the Microsoft Live@edu initiative. In addition to Office Live Workspace, the Live@edu program offers students and alumni 5 GB e-mail inboxes, 5 GB of password-protected online storage space, shared calendars, blogging tools, and access to these services on a mobile phone, all at no costs to the schools or students. The collaboration opportunity afforded by Office Live Workspace is important to allowing students and faculty to work together online. Today, the University of Wisconsin-Parkside is rolling out Office Live Workspace campuswide to its 16,000 active, continuing education and incoming students, plus alumni and more than 700 faculty members and administrators, as part of a broader Live@edu initiative. Since Microsoft Live@edu launched in March 2005, more than 600 schools in 40 countries have chosen the Live@edu suite. More information about Microsoft Live@edu can be found at http://get.live.com/edu.

Office Live Workspace Sweepstakes

Today Microsoft is also launching a $100,000 sweepstakes for U.S.-based Office Live Workspace users. The sweepstakes will award more than 30,000 prizes, including $100,000 that the winner could use to fund a college education, a new business or favorite charity -- the choice is up to the individual. The sweepstakes will run through May 11, 2008, and the winner will be selected around May 15, 2008. Microsoft will award a grand prize of $100,000 and an assortment of more than 30,000 daily and weekly prizes to include Xbox 360 Elite Video Game Systems, Samsung Blackjack II Smartphone devices, 30GB Zune players, Expedia hotel and package coupons and Microsoft Office Professional 2007. Participants may enter for a chance to win by registering for Office Live Workspace. Participants can also earn up to two bonus entries to increase their chances of winning when they upload their first document to their Office Live Workspace account and the first time they share a document or workspace with others. More information about the sweepstakes can be found at http://www.officelive.com/workspace/sweepstakes.

Beta Pricing and Availability

Microsoft Office Live Workspace is being offered free of charge. Microsoft plans to offer the beta program later this year in various languages for international markets. The company expects to release the final public version of Office Live Workspace later in the year.

Founded in 1975, Microsoft is the worldwide leader in software, services and solutions that help people and businesses realize their full potential.

*Based on average file size and use of Word, Excel and PowerPoint

documents by students and work and home users.

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Microsoft Announces Worldwide Availability of Office Live Workspace Beta

REDMOND, Washington, March 4 /PRNewswire/ --

- Customers get immediate access to the new service that extends Microsoft Office, provides anywhere access to documents and enables sharing functionality.

Microsoft Corp today announced the public availability of Microsoft Office Live Workspace beta (http://workspace.officelive.com), the new web-based extension of Microsoft Office that lets people access their documents online and share their work with others. Office Live Workspace was among the first entries in the new wave of online services in Microsoft's software plus services vision previewed last fall.

(Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20000822/MSFTLOGO)

Office Live Workspace is now available worldwide in English. People can sign up for free at http://workspace.officelive.com and will be granted immediate access to the service. Microsoft is also unveiling a number of new Office Live Workspace features, such as an activity panel, notifications, direct links and multifile upload.

Access Anywhere, Share and Extend the Microsoft Office Experience

Office Live Workspace lets people organise documents and projects online and work on them from almost any computer. People can save more than 1,000 Microsoft Office documents to one place online,(i) and access and share them via the web. They can view and comment on documents in the browser as well as create simple web lists and web notes, and share documents in real time through integration with Microsoft SharedView.

Microsoft has also added several new features to Office Live Workspace, based in part on feedback from early beta participants:

Hundreds of Thousands Registered for Office Live Workspace

Since the unveiling of the private beta last October, hundreds of thousands of people have signed up for the beta, and thousands from the pre-registration have been invited to provide feedback on the service. The Office team has also been working with a number of US colleges and universities, including Florida Community College at Jacksonville, University of Pennsylvania, the University of Washington, the University of Wisconsin-Parkside and Vanderbilt University, where it is being used by participating students, faculty members and administrators to enhance sharing and collaboration within the classroom and among student team and extracurricular projects.

"Both in the classroom and in our IT operations, we have tried various forms of collaboration," said Matthew Jett Hall, assistant vice chancellor, information technology services and associate chief information architect, enterprise infrastructure at Vanderbilt University. "Microsoft Office Live Workspace combines all the amazing ease of use that you expect from Microsoft Office with the convenience and security of web-based storage. The best of both worlds allows you to collaborate, edit and share in ways that previously never existed. This is a great execution of a wonderful concept."

Jason Liu, a senior biomedical engineering student at Duke University, uses Office Live Workspace. "Office Live Workspace is a lifesaver. It has not only helped me get organised but also had tremendous impact on how I access and share my documents," Liu said. "With this service, keeping control of document versions as I work on my engineering research project from different computers is so much easier. I no longer have to worry about carrying a thumb drive or e-mailing files to myself, and the integration with Microsoft Office just lets me open and save files directly from and to my workspace, so there was hardly a learning curve. Access to my documents from anywhere and the ability to easily share information using Office Live Workspace -- whether in the lab, at my office on campus or at my apartment -- is truly improving my computing experience."

Office Live Workspace also represents a critical collaboration component of the Microsoft Live@edu initiative. In addition to Office Live Workspace, the Live@edu programme offers students and alumni 5 GB e-mail inboxes, 5 GB of password-protected online storage space, shared calendars, blogging tools, and access to these services on a mobile phone, all at no costs to the schools or students. The collaboration opportunity afforded by Office Live Workspace is important to allowing students and faculty to work together online. Today, the University of Wisconsin-Parkside is rolling out Office Live Workspace campuswide to its 16,000 active, continuing education and incoming students, plus alumni and more than 700 faculty members and administrators, as part of a broader Live@edu initiative. Since Microsoft Live@edu launched in March 2005, more than 600 schools in 40 countries have chosen the Live@edu suite. More information about Microsoft Live@edu can be found at http://get.live.com/edu.

Office Live Workspace Sweepstakes

Today Microsoft is also launching a US$100,000 sweepstakes for US-based Office Live Workspace users. The sweepstakes will award more than 30,000 prizes, including $100,000 that the winner could use to fund a college education, a new business or favourite charity -- the choice is up to the individual. The sweepstakes will run through May 11, 2008, and the winner will be selected around May 15, 2008. Microsoft will award a grand prize of $100,000 and an assortment of more than 30,000 daily and weekly prizes to include Xbox 360 Elite Video Game Systems, Samsung Blackjack II Smartphone devices, 30GB Zune players, Expedia hotel and package coupons and Microsoft Office Professional 2007. Participants may enter for a chance to win by registering for Office Live Workspace. Participants can also earn up to two bonus entries to increase their chances of winning when they upload their first document to their Office Live Workspace account and the first time they share a document or workspace with others. More information about the sweepstakes can be found at http://www.officelive.com/workspace/sweepstakes.

Beta Pricing and Availability

Microsoft Office Live Workspace is being offered free of charge. Microsoft plans to offer the beta programme later this year in various languages for international markets. The company expects to release the final public version of Office Live Workspace later in the year.

About Microsoft

Founded in 1975, Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) is the worldwide leader in software, services and solutions that help people and businesses realise their full potential.

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Guest-Tek to install OneView(TM) IPTV high definition in Hotel Terra Jackson Hole, a premier destination resort

CALGARY, AB, and TETON VILLAGE, WY, March 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Guest-Tek Interactive Entertainment Ltd., ("Guest-Tek") (TSX:GTK) has announced an agreement (the "Agreement") with the Terra Resort Group to install OneView(TM) Internet protocol television ("IPTV") and video-on-demand ("VOD") in high definition ("HD") into the Hotel Terra Jackson Hole, located at the legendary Jackson Hole Mountain Resort.

With this Agreement, the Hotel Terra Jackson Hole's guests will enjoy high quality HD entertainment from the leading studios, as well as an extensive line-up of HD free-to-guest ("FTG") television channels. The Hotel Terra Jackson Hole is an independent hotel under development in two phases and will offer 132 rooms upon completion. Phase one will see 72 guest rooms go live in the spring of 2008, phase two will see another 60 rooms in 2010. In addition, Hotel Terra Jackson Hole is the first in a planned worldwide collection of eco-friendly hotels, all branded Hotel Terra. The OneView(TM) Media solution designed by Guest-Tek for the Terra Resort Group is capable of supporting all phases of development, allowing the new rooms to be added onto the system as they are ready to go live. While the network has been designed for the final capacity, the ability to provide a different look and feel for the different hotels was of significant interest to Terra Resort Group as well. Hotel Terra Jackson Hole is being designed to leverage the Internet protocol (IP) network deployed by Guest-Tek to reduce energy usage through the networking of thermostats in the guest rooms.

"We are seeing more hotels choosing an entertainment provider based on quality and quantity of HD programming being offered to the guest. We believe this is why hotel chains and resort management groups like Terra Resort Group are choosing Guest-Tek's OneView(TM) Media products," said Arnon Levy, CEO of Guest-Tek. "In addition we are pleased to see our technology give hoteliers new tools to reduce energy consumption and support 'green' operating principles within their hotels."

"Guest-Tek's OneView(TM) Media provides a level of service for television that our guests have come to expect," said Ryan Zalta, Director of Internet Technology for Terra Resort Group. "Top quality HD programming is what our guests have in their homes; Guest-Tek's OneView(TM) Media now allows us to provide a comparable experience for them inside our hotel. The ability for the system to accommodate the future hotels and support different branding for those hotels made the investment even more compelling for us."

Guest-Tek's OneView(TM) Media system provides for the delivery of digital content securely over Internet Protocol (IP) using industry standards for conditional access and content encryption featuring Advanced Encryption Standard 128-bit encryption technology, as well as aiding content protection from piracy with session-based forensic watermarking. The additional value of this technology provides flexibility through a software-based approach to content protection supporting easy renew-ability, revocability, and even complete replacement - instead of costly and inflexible hardware based solutions that are dependent upon proprietary embedded hardware in the television.

About Guest-Tek

Guest-Tek is the world's largest provider of IP based technology solutions for the hospitality industry. Guest-Tek's OneView(TM) platform provides hotels with converged data, video and telephony services. Guest-Tek is a preferred vendor to major hotel brands, providing services including network design, procurement, implementation, and post sales customer support to 3,019 properties and over 504,000 rooms. Guest-Tek's common shares trade on The Toronto Stock Exchange under the trading symbol "GTK". The company's head offices are in Calgary, Alberta, and it has major support facilities in Irvine, California, and Warsaw, Poland as well as Sales offices located throughout North America and Europe. For more information about Guest-Tek, go to http://www.guest-tek.com/.

Terra Resort Group

Formed in November 2006, Terra Resort Group boasts a highly credentialed pedigree of operational and business talent. Company President Jamie Yarrow calls on 18 years of experience with Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts, most recently as General Manager of Four Seasons Palm Beach, and previously, leading the opening management team for Four Seasons Resort Jackson Hole. Several industry veterans joined Yarrow's Terra Resort Group team, lending an innate understanding of intuitive service and seamless operations. Rob DesLauriers, Chairman of Terra Resort Group and the developer of Hotel Terra, is a former professional skier turned developer and hotelier. Among other successes, DesLauriers launched the adjacent slope side Teton Mountain Lodge in 2002, a 129 room luxury hotel that emulates the great park lodges of the American West. Terra Resort Group's values as a company are firmly grounded in environmental responsibility and an evolutionary approach to hospitality, where excellence and innovation works with conscientious business practices and forward-thinking design to create an exceptional guest experience.

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CONTACT: Arnon Levy, President & CEO, Guest-Tek, (403) 444-8488,
arnon.levy@guest-tek.com; Geoff Clark, CFO, Guest-Tek, (403) 444-8427,
geoff.clark@guest-tek.com

Disposal of Assets by CAT

SINGAPORE, March 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- China Agro-Technology Ltd. ("CAT") (BULLETIN BOARD: CAGTF) today announced that, pursuant to a sales and purchase agreement dated February 18, 2008, CAT disposed of the majority of its investment holdings in its subsidiary Qing Yuan Zhao Tian Eco-Agriculture Co., Ltd. ("QYZT") to an unrelated third party. CAT held 80% equity interest in QYZT.

CAT Founder & Chairman, Dr. Harry He said, "The Company expects to account for losses on the disposal of investment holdings of approximately $810,000 in the second quarter of fiscal year 2008. Since QYZT had no revenue contribution to CAT, the overall financial impact of the disposition will be minimal."

CAT also announced that a dispute regarding this transaction based on the Company's 6K filing of December 28, 2007 is being handled by Sichenzia Ross Friedman Ference LLP, the Company's legal counsel. Dr. He added, "We are confident that our 6-K filing and the financial and legal disclosures related to that filing are accurate."

About China Agro-Technology Holdings, Ltd

China Agro-Technology Holdings, Ltd ("CAT") is an ecologically sustainable agricultural technology enterprise that aims at promoting a global reforestation program, generating environmental rehabilitation and serving the acute demands for resource products. CAT is principally engaged in the ecological forestry business and agricultural technology, producer and sale of quality seeds and marketing of agro-technology know-how. The Company's Directors consider the acquisition of the new land bank to be a significant addition to the Company's biological assets. With the planting of Jatropha, CAT will broaden its revenue sources and increase its role in the biodiesel markets and "going green" efforts. On the latter, CAT believes that partnering countries could leverage on its genetic engineering plantation technologies to maximize agriculture outputs and generate economies of scale while promoting an ecologically sustainable land environment.

CAT is primarily involved in the ownership, management and operation of Genetically Engineered plantations, the non-tube clone plantations and the marketing of the proprietary rights and technological know-how to the global market. CAT had total revenues of $37 million in the fiscal year ended September 30, 2007, with gross profit of $35 million and net income of $32.6 million. CAT's strength is its group of highly innovative research scientists and agronomists who specialize in the R&D of agriculture and intelligent computer non-tube plant propagation technology. Driven by agro-biotechnology, CAT is able to achieve higher output with a shorter growth period. CAT's Genetically Engineered Eucalypt Trees (GEET) strains are suitable for cultivation at different climatic conditions and are able to grow within just 4-5 years time to a height of 35 to 40 meters, as compared to other species that take about 6 to 8 years. The Company's trees also yield 50% more in wood timber, about 150 cubic meters per hectare as compared to 100 cubic meters per hectare for those which currently leads the world in eucalyptus production. Other unique features of CAT's GEETs include increased resistance against pests and weeds, the ability to flourish under adverse weather and soil conditions, reduced usage of agro-chemical and growth of at least 8 rotations over a period of 50 years without the need for replanting of new saplings.

Safe Harbor Statement: Under The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995: Except for historical information contained herein, the statements in this news release are forward-looking statements that are made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties, which may cause a company's actual results, performance and achievement in the future to differ materially from forecasted results, performance, and achievement. These risks and uncertainties are described in the Company's periodic filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The Company undertakes no obligation to publicly release the results of any revisions to these forward-looking statements that may be made to reflect events or circumstances after the date hereof, or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events or changes in the Company's plans or expectation.

Ashley Hull ProPublic Media, LLC. hunnyhull@propublicmedia.com (310) 450-9100

China Agro-Technology Ltd.

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NUR Macroprinters Finalizes Sale of its Business to HP

LOD, Israel, March 4 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- NUR Macroprinters Ltd. (NURMF.PK), a leading supplier of wide-format inkjet production printers for the printing industry, announced today that it has finalized the sale of its business to Hewlett-Packard Company (HP) in accordance with the asset purchase agreement signed on Dec. 9, 2007.

Under the terms of the agreement, HP has paid $118.4 million in cash to NUR (including $14.5 million deposited in an escrow account). HP has withheld approximately $1.6 million until final calculation of NUR's cash position at closing. As a result of HP acquiring NUR's Belgium subsidiary, an additional $1.5 million will be withheld until the assignment of NUR's Belgium subsidiary's obligations with respect to such subsidiary's capital lease and Government grants, to NUR. NUR will retain approximately $1 million in cash and will use approximately $21.7 million of the proceeds to repay loans to its lender banks. NUR has also retained several additional liabilities (although approximately $1.5 million of which have been paid prior to closing and have been accounted for in the closing purchase price adjustment) and is still evaluating the tax consequences of the transaction.

Following the closing of the transaction, David Reis, President and CEO, NUR Macroprinters, will provide consulting services to the HP management team for a period of up to 6 months. Yuval Cohen, Managing Partner of Fortissimo Capital and Chairman of the NUR board of directors stated: "On behalf of NUR's board of directors, management and employees, we wish to thank Mr. Reis for his unrivaled support and dedication during his tenure at NUR, particularly in repositioning the company as a market leader for wide-format UV production printers."

NUR's board of directors will convene shortly to discuss the future directives for the company and appoint a new CEO.

Information Relating to Forward-Looking Statements

With the exception of historical information in this news release, this document includes forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties, including, but not limited to, uncertainties with respect to results, the management of growth, fluctuations in demand, major changes in political, economic, regulatory, or environmental conditions, the loss of key customers, suppliers or key members of senior management, uninsured losses, competition, uncertainty as to the closing of the transaction, possibility of future claims for indemnity, and other risks detailed from time to time in the Company's Securities and Exchange Commission filings. Actual results may differ materially from any forward-looking statements set forth herein.

Contact: Yossy Zylberberg, COO & CFO, +972(8)9145466, yossyz@oranacorp.com.

NUR Macroprinters Ltd.

CONTACT: Contact: Yossy Zylberberg, COO & CFO, +972(8)9145466,
yossyz@oranacorp.com.