GAITHERSBURG, MD, May 8, 2000 - Tracer Technologies is pleased to announce the selection of MagnaVault for Linux as a Best of AIIM 2000 winner. This prestigious award is given by Imaging and Document Solutions magazine to distinguished products shown at the Association for Information and Image Management's annual trade show and expo.

``MagnaVault for Linux brings the power of Tracer's storage management software to the Linux server world. MagnaVault is an ideal complement to Linux for embedded applications. We expect to work together with our hardware partners to deploy MagnaVault for Linux in a variety of server appliances within the next year, continuing a process we started a year ago'' said Dr. Scott Carson, Tracer's Vice President of Engineering. As Imaging Magazine notes, today's ``storage options are not only better, faster and cheaper, they're more intelligent, supporting ambitious, data-intensive applications that would not have been imaginable just a few years ago.'' MagnaVault for Linux will play a key role in defining the storage appliances of the future.

Tracer Technologies has provided high-performance UNIX software for optical storage devices to OEM and reseller channels since 1991. Today, Tracer's products include a full range of device drivers, robotic managers, spannable write-once and erasable optical UNIX file systems, utilities and GUIs for CD-ROM, CD-Recordable, DVD, rewritable and write-once stand-alone and jukebox optical storage and tape peripherals. The company markets its products through an international system of high-technology VARs, distributors, systems integrators and OEMs. Tracer's headquarters are located in Gaithersburg, MD with branch offices in California, Japan, and Finland.