AbiWord Wins Show Favorite Award at LinuxWorld Conference and Expo

LinuxWorld's Nicholas Petreley Presents Award to SourceGear Corporation

SAN JOSE, CA -- Wednesday, 11 August 1999 -- At the awards presentation for Show Favorite at LinuxWorld Conference and Expo, SourceGear Corporation has accepted the top award in the category of Productivity Application/Suite. The Show Favorite awards were determined by vote of the attendees. Other winners included Red Hat and Cygnus.

About AbiWord

AbiWord is a high-quality word processor developed by SourceGear Corporation in cooperation with a team of individuals in the Open Source community. Staff members at SourceGear created the AbiSource project last year and continue to serve as leader and coordinator of the project.

The popularity of AbiWord is building rapidly. As involvement from the Open Source community continues to grow, SourceGear's web servers recorded 18,000 downloads of AbiWord during the month of July alone.

About SourceGear Corporation

In addition to its award winning AbiWord, SourceGear offers several other products and services.

-- As a result of its recent acquisition of Cyclic Software, SourceGear is now the leading provider of maintenance and support services for CVS. CVS is the most popular version control system among programmers in the Open Source world and is widely used by major corporations as well. Professional support services for enterprise users of CVS are available from SourceGear Corporation.

-- SourceGear also provides a line of Internet-enabled tools for software developers on Windows and Linux, including SourceOffSite, one of the few commercial applications available for Linux using the GTK+ widget set.

SourceGear Corporation is privately held, and was founded in 1997. For more information, see the AbiWord project home page at http://www.abisource.com/ or contact Scott Boesch, telephone 217-356-0105 ext. 642; email: scott@sourcegear.com.

AbiSource, AbiWord, AbiSuite, SourceGear and the AbiSource logo are trademarks of SourceGear Corporation. Linux is a trademark of Linus Torvalds.