2001 Milinx Launches Milinx Application Data Center, Sets ASP Industry Standards

SEATTLE, WA and VANCOUVER, BC July 31, 2000-Milinx Business Group, Inc. (OTCBB: MIXBA) has secured its position as a leader in the rapidly growing Application Service Provider (ASP) industry by commencing operations at the new Data Center, Sets ASP Industry Standard.

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President and Chief Executive Officer Maynard L. Dokken remarked, "The Milinx Application Data Center differentiates us as a true ASP. Our in-house expertise means Milinx can rapidly yet economically scale its operations to accommodate more traffic or deploy other hardware and software platforms, as they are needed. This adds up to Milinx-managed trustworthy and cost-effective solutions for our clients. It means we can move faster to bring our clients new and custom software including Milinx proprietary solutions currently in development. The Milinx Application Data Center is pivotal to our position as a true ASP."

The fact that Milinx created, owns and manages its Application Data Center makes the company nearly unique among an estimated 1600 companies that call themselves ASPs. Almost all depend on third parties for their hardware and data storage. This puts much of their functionality and a large slice of their profitability in the hands of others. Unlike these companies, Milinx does not co-locate its application servers, content routing systems or primary storage, and performs data, application, primary customer routing operations and monitoring in-house with its own staff.

Software applications will be hosted and managed from the Milinx Application Data Center and delivered to businesses over networks on a subscription basis, speeding solution implementation while minimizing spending on software and information technology (IT).

"It is premier Internet architecture, the absolute best there is," said Senior Vice President of Information Technology, Clare Cremer. "The Milinx Application Data Center uses hardware and architecture from Sun Microsystems, Cisco Systems, the kind used by the biggest players in the Internet marketplace including eBay and Amazon.com and back-end software from iPlanet/Netscape and Oracle." He added, "We have a combination of reliability, scalability, flexibility and autonomy like no other ASP." Milinx now has one of the world's largest Sun Microsystems true ASP Application Data Centers.

The statistics speak for themselves. The Application Data Center can immediately host huge volumes of Milinx ASP products and services including 500,000 e-mail accounts, 75,000 ASPs, resellers or e-commerce providers and 75,000 unified messaging (UM) phone clients. Mr. Cremer noted, "The architecture allows us to easily expand to 300,000 users at this one Application Data Center."

The facility is fault-tolerant with fail-over capabilities that include multiple processors for each deliverable element. Dual fiber-optic links from AT&T; and Telus each providing the Milinx Application Data Center with on demand 45 MB per second from each pipe. The server room has redundant dedicated heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) systems; dual three-ton UPS and backup generator, and a multi-tank redundant argon gas system for fire suppression. The Milinx Application Data Center also meets or exceeds existing seismic standards.