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SECURE SHELL INTEROPERABILITY FOSTERED AT CONNECTATHON TESTING EVENT

VanDyke Software™ Testing Team Returns With Results, Plans for Next Year

Albuquerque, N.M. (March 14, 2002) — VanDyke Software, a leading provider of security and access software, finished a week of rigorous interoperability testing at Connectathon 2002 in San Jose, California. Connectathon is a vendor-neutral event begun in 1986 by Sun Microsystems to promote multi-platform network computing. This year marks the first time that products using the open Secure Shell protocol have been tested at the event.

"VanDyke Software developers made important progress at Connectathon to increase the interoperability of SSH clients and servers," said Jeff P. Van Dyke, president of the company. "We intend to participate actively in developing a formal test suite for next year's event. Events like Connectathon where technical representatives from competing companies can work together cooperatively are critical for the Secure Shell community."

VanDyke Software is a worldwide leader in standards-based Internet communications software for Windows® clients and servers. The company develops quality data access and communications software for Internet and intranet use by corporations, government, and education. VanDyke sells and distributes its software over the Internet, offering 30-day evaluation of its products prior to purchase, and has more than 650,000 registered users in 103 countries. VanDyke products include the VShell™ server, SecureCRT® for remote access and data tunneling, SecureFX® for secure file transfer, the CRT terminal emulator for connecting to remote hosts, and AbsoluteFTP® for public file transfer.

For more information about VanDyke Software, visit the company's web site at www.vandyke.com.

Copyright © 2002 VanDyke Software, Inc. All Rights Reserved. VanDyke Software, VShell, SecureCRT, SecureFX, and AbsoluteFTP are trademarks or registered trademarks of VanDyke Software, Inc. in the United States and/or other countries. All other products and services mentioned are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies.

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