POOLE, UNITED KINGDOM - January 25, 2002 - In line with their total commitment to working with the channel, BakBone Software announces today that it has taken the strategic decision of entering into a distribution agreement with Open Computing who will distribute BakBone's award-winning backup and recovery software, NetVault within the UK.

"We felt that our NetVault product would make an admirable fit into the Open product portfolio and look forward to working closely with Open to build strong brand awareness across the UK.” commented Andrew Unsworth, managing director at BakBone. "The high-profit model, and faster time-to-deployment capabilities that set us apart from competitors, together with our exclusive SAN/NAS convergence feature set, will help Open and their resellers make significant inroads into the network storage market in the UK. The clearly defined ROI that NetVault brings customers will provide a significant base for Open's resellers to grow their businesses rapidly.”

"One of Open's greatest advantages is its thorough understanding of its vendors and their products.” explains Mark Barcham, enterprise sales manager at Open. "We see BakBone as a great product to complement Open's current offerings, especially in the UNIX and Linux market, and are excited to be able to offer NetVault to our reseller base who will be able to generate new areas of business, as companies seek to grow their data storage capabilities.”

Price and Availability

NetVault is immediately available from BakBone-certified distributor, Open Computing, and their network of resellers in a variety of modular and packaged solutions with configurations to satisfy virtually every network storage requirement, from the workgroup to the enterprise. Pricing begins at $695 for an NT or Linux workgroup package and at $2595 for a similar package running on UNIX. Both include NetVault server software, and software for five clients, two tape drives and library support.

About BakBone Software, Inc.

BakBone Software™ (TSE: BKB, OTC: BKBOF) is an international storage management software company that develops and globally distributes industry-leading storage management solutions to the open systems markets, providing data protection and management solutions scalable from office to enterprise that will grow with a company's needs.

BakBone's NetVault™ storage management software is designed to provide unparalleled robustness, and unmatched data protection and recovery to meet the challenges of today's computing infrastructures. NetVault's comprehensive but easy to use features include versatile modular design, advanced SAN support and specialised on-line application backup. The very core of the product is designed with high bandwidth data transfers in mind and designed to ensure that performance is not compromised.

BakBone's corporate headquarters is located at 10145 Pacific Heights Boulevard, San Diego, Ca. 92121 with European headquarters in Poole, UK. Its stock is listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange and is included on the TSE 300 Composite, S&P/TSE Canadian SmallCap and TSE 200 indices. For more information on BakBone products, call 01202 241000, e-mail sales_europe@bakbone.com, or access BakBone's web site at www.bakbone.com.

The Toronto Stock Exchange has neither approved nor disapproved the information contained herein.

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