JOSÉ ALMEIDA JOINS THALES COMPUTERS AS PRE-SALES SUPPORT MANAGER FOR THE COMPANYS EXPORT REGIONS

JOSÉ ALMEIDA JOINS THALES COMPUTERS AS PRE-SALES SUPPORT MANAGER FOR THE COMPANYS EXPORT REGIONS

Raleigh, NC, August 26, 2002 -- Thales Computers, a leader in providing PowerPC and Pentium-based VME computing solutions to OEMs and system integrators, has announced that José Almeida has joined the company as Manager of Pre-Sales Support for the export regions, which include Asia, the Pacific and Northern Europe. Almeida will be in charge of coordinating all technical pre-sales activities for those regions. This will include educating customers on Thales Computers products including their specific applications, coordinating product evaluations, and defining hardware architectures. Almeida will be headquartered in Jouy-en-Josas, France near Paris.

Almeida previously worked for LynuxWorks, where he was responsible for the companys technical support throughout the EMEA region. He also worked as a project manager, in charge of designing complex real-time process control applications based on VME systems. Almeida also designed VME boards for Themis Computers.

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His degree in Electronic Sciences is from École Centrale de Nantes, Nantes, France.

Thales Computers Vice President of International Sales and Marketing, Hubert Canuet, stated, Josés knowledge of the embedded and real-time markets will be a valuable asset to Thales Computers customers. It will help enhance our service and solution capabilities in the military, aerospace, and harsh environment markets worldwide."

For more information, please visit Thales Computers website at www.thalescomputers.com,
or contact Thales Computers at 1-800-848-2330, fax 919-231-8001.

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EDITORS NOTE: Thales Computers, a Thales Group company, is headquartered in Toulon, France, and Raleigh, North Carolina. Thales Computers is the leading developer of commercial and ruggedized VMEbus hardware and software solutions based on PowerPC and Pentium microprocessors. The companys products are optimized for a wide variety of applications in military, aerospace, communications and industrial markets and are in active use by customers worldwide, including Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, Boeing, Toshiba, EADS, British Aerospace, Ericsson, Alcatel and the Thales Group.