Press Release

Friday 8 December, 2000

POWERLAN USA ANNOUNCES A NEW VERSION OF WEBTERM X - X WINDOW SERVER FOR THE INTRANET, “THE NEXT GENERATION OF EXODUS FOR WINDOWS”.

NASHUA, New Hampshire, December 8, 2000, -- Powerlan USA, a wholly owned subsidiary of Powerlan Ltd. (ASX: PWR), announced today that its Connectivity Products Division has released a new version to its suite of powerful X Window Servers for Microsoft Windows. WebTerm X version 3.0 provides seamless access to X Window applications from within a web browser or functions as a stand-alone X server.

Using a Web-based connectivity product such as WebTerm X product allows mobile and other remote users to access mainframe, and midrange and windows based back-end systems (such as AS/400 and UNIX based) quite inexpensively via the Internet from virtually anywhere. Business partners, suppliers, customers and other trusted trading partners can also access information and applications across an extranet using a Web-to-Host or Thin X solution forming the basis of Business to Business (B2B) solutions.

WebTerm X is available immediately electronically at www.powerlan-usa.com, or from your nearest reseller or distributor.  Site and enterprise licensing is also available for deployments of 25 units or more.  Companies with an alternative X Window Server product installed currently can take advantage of special competitive upgrade pricing.

Ms. Jeanne Pecha, the Lab Coordinator of Florida State University’s Chemistry Lab, says she was asked to implement WebTerm X for an Undergraduate Chemistry Computer Lab.  “In this particular aspect,” Ms. Pecha says,  “we needed our PC’s to communicate with a Sun Enterprise 250 server so that students could use VNMR software to analyze their data.  Their Solaris-based software was complicated and needed specific environmental parameters set. WebTerm X was used in order to get our third party software working properly which saved us a vast amount of time, and gained us seamless connection from our PC’s and windows environment to the Sun host.”

About Powerlan

Powerlan USA, a wholly owned subsidiary of Powerlan Limited (Australia), develops, licenses, installs and maintains a range of connectivity software products which allow corporations to take greater advantage of the Internet as a delivery mechanism for software applications.  Our Connectivity software products are becoming more and more relevant to the growing ASP market in that they enable low cost access by multiple users to centrally located complex software applications via the Internet.  Connectivity software products largely eliminate the need to install and manage numerous desktop client applications to access enterprise information through the Internet. By making a Web browser the universal interface to enterprise information resources, connectivity software reduces the cost of enterprise connectivity by reducing the cost of desktop management.

Powerlan Limited is an IT services company listed on the Australian Stock Exchange.  It is one of the largest Australian owned and Australian managed information technology and telecommunication (“IT&T”) services organizations operating throughout the Asia Pacific region.  The company has 32 offices in 10 countries including Australia (16 offices), the USA, New Zealand, Hong Kong, China (3 offices), Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore, Macao and Indonesia.

The Company has over 800 employees including a sales force of over 150 and a consulting and engineering team of over 450.  Powerlan provides products and services to over 6,000 corporate, government, and academic organizations.

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