November 12, 2003

Key Information Systems Teams with IBM and Novell on Road Show
The three companies bring all the parts together for a more intuitive and flexible WebSphere user experience.

Highlights

• Key will represent IBM in Novell and IBM Linux road show.
• Half-day events will cover 40 cities from Nov. 5 to 13.
• Key is a Premier IBM Business Partner and systems integrator providing migration services between platforms and operating systems.

Woodland Hills, CA --November 12, 2003 -- Key Information Systems, a systems integration company and Premier IBM® Business Partner, will represent IBM products in the Novell and IBM Linux Solutions Conference, a 40-city road show from November 5 through 11. Show events demonstrate how Novell Linux services can better manage the constant interaction of people with their business systems while significantly lowering IT costs. The conference will introduce Novell's new Novell Linux Services 1, Ximian Desktop and Ximian Red Carpet products, and promotes the emergence of Novell‚s Linux and open source software as central enabling technologies for enterprise solutions.

Each half-day event of the Novell and IBM Linux Solutions Conference will cover:

• Linux trends and directions
• IBM & Novell Linux strategy
• Personal file management
• Directory services
• Print services
• Internet messaging and calendaring
• System management
• Web experience
• Server consolidation

Key Information Systems is a systems integration company that specializes in platform-to-platform conversions, Internet-based applications, storage management and high-availability solutions for small and medium business (SMB) organizations.

At the conference, Key will represent IBM as a Premier Business Partner and systems integrator. They will assist Novell business partners to migrate Novell users to NetWare 7 or to Novell Linux Services. "Key is a strategic provider in IBM‚s Linux value-net," noted Lief Morin, President at Key, "and our experience in migration services and Linux has equipped us to provide the services that Novell partners and their customers will need during the migration process."

Novell has 5 million Netware users, many of whom are expected to attend the Novell and IBM Linux Solutions Conference.

Novell announced last week (November 4) that it will acquire SuSE Linux in a $210 million cash deal. At the same time, IBM announced it is making an investment of $50 million in Novell. Thus, the IBM-Novell-SuSE alliance is well funded.

SuSE, headquartered in Nuremberg, Germany, is the second largest commercial Linux distributor after Red Hat. "SuSE has been on the front lines in the effort to get Linux on the iSeries," notes Pete Elliot, Director of Marketing at Key, "and we at Key are strong supporters of anyone who can help to make Linux a solid player on the iSeries platform."

By the release of NetWare 7, Novell Linux Services will be functionally equivalent to NetWare 7. Novell‚s customers now have a viable option to continue with solutions from a provider they have trusted for years. They can now move forward with an Open Source non-proprietary solution that also has both IBM and Key behind it.

Visit http://www.novell.com/linux/seminar.html to register for this free seminar and to find more information about specific locations and dates.

About Key Information Systems, Inc.
Key Information Systems, Inc. is a Premier Business Partner with IBM and a systems integrator. Founded in 1995, Key delivers affordable and scalable solutions by integrating business strategies with infrastructure engineering. The company provides infrastructure architecture for storage solutions, business continuity, e-business and computing environment conversion.

Key has been designated a TotalStorage Solution Center by IBM, providing a full line of storage solutions across the total enterprise. This includes ESS (SHARK), SAN, NAS, FAStT, BladeCenter, iSCSI, LTO, Tivoli, TSRM and IBM storage virtualization/management products. Services include consulting in the best way to manage storage resources, business continuity planning and systems integration services to assist organizations migrating between platforms and operating system environments. For more information, visit the company online at www.keyisit.com or call 1-877-442-3249.

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