PureMessage by ActiveState Wins "Best Sys Admin Tool" at LinuxWorld

VANCOUVER, BC - August 6 - At the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo this
week, ActiveState(tm) was honored with a Product Excellence Award for
PureMessage(tm), the company's anti-spam and content filtering solution.
IDG World Expo, in conjunction with the UniForum Association, selected
PureMessage over products from finalists including Computer Associates,
IBM Tivoli Software, Novell, Oracle, and SuSE Inc.  

"As this award demonstrates, PureMessage makes it easy for systems
administrators to protect against spam and viruses, while establishing
and enforcing other vital communication policies at the email gateway,"
said Jesse Dougherty, director of development at ActiveState.
"PureMessage is increasingly the anti-spam solution of choice in the
enterprise and higher education markets. As we evolve the product to
tackle increasingly more sophisticated types of spam, it's gratifying to
see that this   support for PureMessage's unique and proven approach is
shared by the market and industry pundits alike."

PureMessage by ActiveState is a server-based email filtering solution
providing spam and virus protection, while also enabling the creation
and enforcement of other email hygiene policies for inbound and outbound
messages.  PureMessage safely identifies and quarantines spam using a
combination of heuristics, spam directories, and spam signatures,
delivering the most effective spam filtering with low IT administration
and end-user effort.  PureMessage supports AIX, HP-UX, FreeBSD, Linux,
and Solaris.  More details are available at:
www.ActiveState.com/PureMessage.

The Product Excellence Awards recognize major areas of innovation in the
Linux and open source community.  For more information about LinuxWorld
Conference & Expo/San Francisco 2003 and this year's Open Source Product
Excellence Awards, visit www.linuxworldexpo.com.

About ActiveState Corp.
ActiveState enables IT professionals and enterprises to increase
productivity and organizational efficiency.  PureMessage by ActiveState
empowers organizations to take control of their email communications to
protect against spam and viruses, and to enforce email policy.
Additional information on ActiveState's industrial strength anti-spam
software for enterprises and professional tools for programmers is
available at: www.ActiveState.com.

Media & Analyst Inquiries:
Lori Pike, ActiveState
LoriP@[...].com
604.808.6655

Katey Stewart, Horn Group
kstewart@[...].com
415.905.4019

ActiveState, Komodo, and PureMessage are trademarks of ActiveState Corp.
All other company names herein may be trademarks of their respective
owners. 

© ActiveState Corporation 2003.

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