Tridia Provides Avocent Digital Desktops With "Built For Business" DoubleVision for Windows In Strategic Alliance
Avocent Digital Desktops Division will integrate DoubleVision for Windows to improve distributed PC management and add value to its Digital Extension Technology suite of products

ATLANTA | MAY 1, 2003 | Tridia Corporation (www.tridia.com), a global provider of multiplatform, Internet safe remote administration and support software to administrators that require maximum network and system availability, today announced a strategic alliance with Avocent Digital Desktops, a division of Avocent Corporation (NASDAQ/NM:AVCT). Under the alliance, Digital Desktops will integrate DoubleVision® for Windows to improve distributed PC management, and add value to its Cstation appliances that allow for remote relocation of PCs through first-of-its-kind Digital Extension TechnologyTM.

"Tridia met our requirement for a strategic partnership to deliver full-feature remote administration software that could be customized for the unique demands of our vertical markets," said Don Davidson, president of Avocent Digital Desktops. "Tridia's response to our request for customization of DoubleVision for Windows will enhance with software what our Digital Extension Technology provides through hardware and networking."

Tridia's Built For Businesssm DoubleVision for Windows is a fully supported and secure alternative to open source VNC and other FLIMSY remote control products. DoubleVision products meet or exceed the requirements of uptime and security conscious administrators who understand the liabilities of going it alone with technology solutions that are open source or built for the masses.

For more information on DoubleVision for Windows and the DoubleVision family of remote administration and support products visit the Tridia Corporation Web site at www.tridia.com or Telephone: 770-428-5000.

About Tridia Corporation
Tridia Corporation products turn downtime into uptime. Tridia is a global provider of cross-platform remote administration and support software to administrators that require maximum network and system availability. For more than 15 years, Tridia has been a leading developer of remote administration and support technologies for UNIX, and now applies this experience to Microsoft Windows and Linux applications. Tridia's DoubleVision family of products leverages an extensive knowledge of encryption and data communications to maximize its remote control functionality and value to IT. Founded in 1987, Tridia Corporation is a privately owned, Atlanta-based software development company.

About Avocent Digital Desktops
Avocent Digital Desktops (formerly 2C Computing) brings Digital Extension Technology to the market through its Cstation line of products. Avocent Digital Desktops is the pioneer in digital bus extension technology, a new archetype in distributed computing that provides the most powerful transport method between a PC and a remote desktop. The Cstation shatters the PCI and USB length limitations, providing IT managers the ability to backrack PCs to a central environment and drastically reduce maintenance at the desktop. IT administrators enjoy ease of maintenance, reduced asset auditing and rapid deployment of new networking technologies, while end users retain full PC functionality and peripherals but with reduced heat, noise, clutter, and with downtimes minimized to minutes. For more information, visit www.avocent.com/ddd.

Tridia, TridiaVNC and DoubleVision are trademarks and Built For Business is a sales mark of Tridia Corporation. All other referenced product names are trademarks of their respective companies.

Media Contact: Doug Kilarski, ASPEN Business Development, Telephone: 770-972-4117, E-Mail: aspenbd@attbi.com and doug@aspenbd.com.

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