Leading Financial Service Firms Increasingly Select WinSpace Desktop Management Utility as 'Best of Breed Virtual Desktop

A desktop management software program for Windows, WinSpace 3.0 Professional, has gained considerable usage over the past few years at brokerages, banks and other businesses in the financial services industry. Observers quoted in the article attribute this to a higher degree of activity on user's PC desktops and a dramatic increase in computing power.

Santa Barbara, Calif., February 14, 2002 -- TriPlus Technologies, LLC today announced several recent major purchases of WinSpace 3.0 Professional desktop management utility for Windows by leading banks and brokerages, a trend the company says demonstrates further market penetration and momentum in the financial services sector. Among current corporate licensees are Fidelity Investments, KBC Financial (London), Nesbitt Burns (Canada), St. George Bank of Australia, and a variety of specialty 'boutique brokerages.

According to industry observers, the emerging need for an enhanced Windows user interface in the financial services sector is a direct result of growing computing power and a greater reliance on the simultaneous usage of a multitude of software applications. Technology analysts, CIOs and IT Managers at major investment firms agree, also citing a push for greater productivity since the economic downturn of 2000 and the increased availability of live market data as prime contributing factors which result in 'desktop gridlock. Alan Kelly, head of trading technology for KBC Financial Products in London concurs, predicting that in the next few years, almost every major trading floor will deploy a virtual desktop solution to assist in managing an increasingly complex and demanding work environment.

For most organizations in banking today, desktop clutter and applications manageability is a significant and pressing issue, one that requires a strategic response," he said from KBC Financials London offices. We needed to integrate multiple application windows in a heterogeneous environment with services hosted on a Unix server and various client-level Windows applications. After evaluating all available virtual desktops for site-wide use in the firm on 300 PCs across New York, London, Tokyo and Hong Kong, we selected WinSpace as the best solution."

Released in 1996 and upgraded numerous times with new capabilities requested through user feedback and in consultation with corporate customers, TriPlus WinSpace 3.0 Professional has become the worlds leading desktop management utility. WinSpace offers IT managers centralized management of user profiles for personalized desktops enabling the creation of enterprise-wide interface standards which are customizable to the individual users needs. Especially crucial to users in the industry is WinSpaces robust multiple monitor capability, feature which offers capabilities not native to Windows.

On a typical multi monitor trading station its not uncommon for the user to have 10, 20 or even 30 windows in use at a time," said Michael Probstel while visiting the Wall Street trading room of a client. It becomes increasingly difficult to manage this level of activity with existing Windows interface tools like the taskbar. WinSpace is recognized as providing brokers and financial analysts with better navigational control over their PC desktops, offering efficient access to open windows on the trading stations. Its a much more dynamic, configurable and multiple monitor-ready interface."

St. George Bank Group, Australia's fifth largest bank, has experienced many of these user interface issues and recently licensed WinSpace for its worldwide operations. Jacques Graells, Technology Manager of the St. George Bank Treasury found Winspace to be the only desktop manager that allowed the user to have multiple virtual screens which are independent on each monitor while using a dual or quad screen video card.

We were interested in enabling the dealers to be able to switch application screens much more easily without having to alter their screen layout. This allows the dealers to change to different screens to input a deal while keeping the crucial pricing screen visible. We have also found it handy to maximize a window so that it doesnt cover both screens but maximizes to the size of the desired screen for display," he said from the companys headquarters in New South Wales, Australia.

Key WinSpace Features and Benefits:

·Centralized management of user profiles for personalized desktops.
·Remote 'silent installation capability
·Customized feature set for specific needs
·Road tested in various WinX, NT and 2000 environments for maximum eliability and stability
·Windows certified, market leading product with 5-year development history

Pricing and Availability
TriPlus WinSpace Professional 3.0 has an MSRP of $37.95 and is downloadable from the TriPlus web site (http://www.triplus.com) and dozens of distribution partners, including leading e-tailers, major portals and vendors such as Dell-Gigabuys, CompUSA, Staples.com, Outpost.com. Volume discounts and site license pricing is also available.

System Requirements
TriPlus WinSpace 3.0 requires a 486/66 or higher IBM PC or compatible, Windows95/98 or Windows NT 4.0, 16MB RAM and 6 MB of free hard disk space available.

About TriPlus Technologies, LLC
TriPlus Technologies, LLC is a Windows tools developer and software publisher based in Santa Barbara, California. Founded in October 1995, TriPlus focuses its development efforts on enhancing user desktop designs to link and unify Windows, the Internet and New Media. For more information, visit the TriPlus at: http://www.triplus.com

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TriPlus Technologies, LLC
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