Jerry Greenberg of Turbolinux Elected to OSDL Board

Jerry Greenberg, SVP Marketing for Turbolinux, brings 35+ year enterprise experience

SAN FRANCISCO, CA February 6, 2001 - Turbolinux®, Inc., a leader in high-performance Linux for Internet infrastructure solutions, today announced that Jerry Greenberg, senior vice president of Marketing, has been elected to the board of directors of the Open Source Development Lab™ (OSDL), the industry's first independent, non-profit lab designed for developers who are adding new business-oriented capabilities to Linux and Linux-based software. The lab has received more than $24 million in support and contributions from the world's leading information technology companies, including Turbolinux.

The Open Source Development Lab, an 11,000-square-foot computing center in the high-tech district west of Portland, Ore., provides Linux and open source developers with access to high-end enterprise hardware and an open forum where they can build and test software for powerful servers and business computing environments.

"Turbolinux has taken a leadership position in Linux for the enterprise and for clustering solutions," said Greenberg. "I am honored that the companies sponsoring the lab have elected me to help the board provide direction to this vital research and development undertaking."

Greenberg has more than 35 years of enterprise IT experience, holding senior management and engineering positions at Amdahl, Data General, Fujitsu and Sperry Univac.

The Open Source Development Lab, founded by Hewlett-Packard Company, Intel Corporation, IBM and NEC Corporation, recently announced additional sponsor support from Computer Associates, Fujitsu and Hitachi. Additional contributors and sponsors include Turbolinux, Caldera, Covalent, Dell, Linuxcare, LynuxWorks, Miracle Linux, Mitsubishi, Red Hat, SGI, SuSE and VA Linux. The lab is managed by an independent board and officers, as well as a full-time director and staff.

About Turbolinux, Inc.
Founded in 1992, Turbolinux develops Linux-based software solutions for Internet and enterprise computing infrastructure, including reliable, available and scalable operating systems for workstations and servers and software clustering solutions for computing traffic management and peer-to-peer distributed computing. Backed by more than $95 million in investments from some of the world's leading technology companies, including Compaq, Dell, Fujitsu, Hitachi, IBM, Intel, NEC, Novell, Oracle, SGI and Toshiba, Turbolinux is headquartered near San Francisco with offices around the world. For more information, visit the Turbolinux Web site at www.Turbolinux.com.

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