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- {Voice: 602/690-3215
- {FAX: 602/293-8065
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- {Bob Fitzpatrick, Investor Relations
- {Voice: 602/690-3558
- {FAX: 602/293-8065
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- ARTISOFT INC. ANNOUNCES LETTER OF INTENT
- WITH PERFORMANCE TECHNOLOGY, INC. FOR
- ACQUISITION AND MERGER
-
- (TUCSON, AZ -- April 20, 1992) -- Artisoft, Inc., the
- Tucson-based developer and manufacturer of the award-winning
- LANtastic Local Area Network, today announced that it has
- signed a letter of intent with Performance Technology, Inc.
- to acquire Performance Technology in a statutory merger.
- Performance Technology will be maintained as a wholly owned
- subsidiary of Artisoft. Under the terms of the letter of
- intent, the shareholders and stock option holders of
- Performance Technology will receive 300,000 shares of
- Artisoft common stock in exchange for their interest in
- Performance Technology.
-
- Performance Technology, a San Antonio, Texas, privately held
- company, is the developer and manufacturer of such award-
- winning networking products as POWERfusion, linking PCs to
- UNIX processors, POWERsave, an archival system for networks,
- and POWERLan(R), which provides PC networking compliant with
- IBM(R) and Microsoft(R) networking products, as well as
- X/Open and OSF/DCE SMB recommendations. Performance
- Technology's POWERbridge is used worldwide to provide wide
- area networking for NetBIOS LANs such as the Microsoft LAN
- Manager and IBM LAN Server as well as POWERLan and
- LANtastic(R) networks.
-
- Artisoft develops and manufactures a full line of hardware
- and software for local area networks including the LANtastic
- Local Area Network. The LANtastic network is recognized as
- the leading DOS-based peer-to-peer network and has won over
- 20 major industry awards for its cost-effective features,
- performance, and ease of use. It allows up to 300 users of
- IBM-compatible computers to connect and share information
- and peripheral devices such as printers, hard drives and CD-
- ROMs.
-
- Performance Technology's POWERfusion DOS to UNIX
- connectivity received PC Magazine's Editors' Choice award in
- 1991 and the Best of LAN Times 1992 award. POWERLan and
- LANtastic are co-winners of the PC Magazine Editors' Choice
- award for both 1991 and 1992. POWERLan also received the
- BYTE Magazine Award of Distinction for 1991. POWERsave
- received LAN Times' Recommended for Networking Award in
- 1991.
-
- The consummation of the transaction is subject to approval
- by the Board of Directors of Artisoft as well as the Board
- of Directors and shareholders of Performance Technology, and
- other conditions.
-
- For more information about Artisoft or its product line,
- contact Artisoft, Inc. at 691 E. River Road, Tucson, AZ
- 85704. Sales 800/TINY RAM. Fax 602/293-8065.