MISSION CRITICAL LINUX APPOINTS SENIOR EDS EXECUTIVE DENNIS HICKEY TO WORLD-WIDE SALES POSITION

-- Executive brings industry expertise to lead the most advanced Linux based company--

Lowell, Massachusetts - January 15, 2001 - Mission Critical Linux, Inc., the cutting edge Linux products and services Company, has announced that Dennis Hickey has joined their team as Vice President of Sales. Mr. Hickey brings with him over 20 years sales experience with the information technology industry, ranging from sales and business development to applications and operations management. Mr. Hickey delivers a broad range of global solutions selling expertise and will be reporting directly to Moiz Kohari, President and CEO.

Previously, Mr. Hickey was Managing Director-Northeast of Electronic Data Systems (EDS), a global leader in providing E-business and information technology to business and government clients in over 50 countries, where he dramatically increased their sales performance. He was key in establishing the Hi-Tech Business Unit, which became one of the company's most productive sales entities. He also acted as a consultant to top executives regarding mission critical business transformations and information technology initiatives. Mr. Hickey was recently honored as one of the top ten revenue producers for the EDS U.S. operation. Mr. Hickey has also held executive sales positions at Quantra Corporation and Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC). As National Accounts Manager for Quantra Corporation, Mr. Hickey played a key role in tripling the company's annual revenue in less than two years between 1996 and 1998. Before Quantra, Mr. Hickey spent eleven years at the DEC establishing partnerships with ISVs including SAP, Manugistics, Oracle and PeopleSoft.

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At Mission Critical Linux, Mr. Hickey will be responsible for expanding the sales team to focus on specific market segments, and to grow the client base for the Company's services, support, technologies, and custom engineering business units.
"Dennis' relentless sales performance in the high tech industry is exactly what we are looking for to drive the rapid growth of our company," says Moiz Kohari, President and CEO of Mission Critical Linux Inc. "His intelligence, leadership and proven expertise in solution selling will be an invaluable asset to Mission Critical Linux, as will his impressive track record of business growth. We are very pleased that our Company continues to attract such top level talent in the industry.    
About Mission Critical Linux, Inc.

Mission Critical Linux Inc. offers enterprise-ready Linux professional services to help plan and deploy efficient and highly available Linux systems; custom engineering for specific development needs; and 24/7 support to ensure maximum systems availability and performance. By combining these services with ground-breaking Linux technologies such as Secure Service Technology and Convolo Cluster Software, the Company provides commercial Linux users with the tools needed to maximize the performance of their IT infrastructure. Headquartered in Lowell, Massachusetts, with offices in Santa Clara, California and Europe, Mission Critical Linux, Inc. can be reached at www.missioncriticallinux.com or at +1 877.625.4689 toll free or +1 978.606.0200.