Linuxcare Appoints Bob Walters as Vice President of Business Development

Linuxcare, a leading provider of customer services for enterprise Linux environments, has appointed Bob Walters as vice president of business development. Walters brings extensive senior management experience and a track record of building strategic industry alliances and managing successful acquisitions to the company.

He is also an experienced high-technology executive and a former Marine fighter pilot. Walters' appointment completes Linuxcare's executive management team. Prior to joining Linuxcare, he was vice president of corporate strategy at Informix, where he directed development of the firm's evolving business model and market positioning.

He also played a key role in acquiring Red Brick Systems, a multi-million dollar vendor of data warehouse software. Walters has ambitious plans for Linuxcare and believes that Linux and Open Source will transform the software ecosystem. He intends to strengthen and expand Linuxcare's business model, which is based on software as breakthrough services.

The growing Linux space is familiar to Walters, who championed porting Red Brick Warehouse to Linux while at Informix. Linuxcare is a market leader largely because its business model is correct, and Walters plans to stay out in front of the market. About Linuxcare, Inc. Linuxcare, Inc. is the leading provider of customer services for enterprise Linux environments, including technical support, professional services, education, and product certification. The company supports all major distributions of Linux, leading Open Source software solutions, and Linux-based enterprise database applications, on all major hardware platforms.

The company hosts www.linuxcare.com, the world's leading online technical support resource for Linux. Forward-looking statements in this press release are made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Investors are cautioned that statements, including, without limitation, statements regarding current or future financial performance, management's plans and objectives for future operations, product plans and performance, management's assessment of market factors and statements regarding the strategy and plans of Linuxcare and its strategic partners, constitute forward-looking statements which involve risks and uncertainties. These statements are based upon Linuxcare's current expectations and judgment about future developments in Linuxcare's business and may be affected by several factors, including, without limitation, delays in or increased costs of production, delays in or lower than anticipated sales of Linuxcare services, general conditions in the computer industry. Linuxcare undertakes no obligation to update any such statements to reflect actual events.