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GroundWork Open Source Named "Best Systems Management Tool" Finalist in LinuxWorld's Product Excellence Awards

San Francisco, CA — August 11, 2006 — GroundWork Open Source, Inc., the leader in open source-based IT operations management, today announced that the GroundWork Monitor Open Source solution has been named one of the finalists in the "Best System Management Tool" category in the LinuxWorld product excellence awards. Linux Journal is judging the candidates, and winners will be announced in a ceremony at LinuxWorld San Francisco on August 16.

GroundWork Monitor Open Source is the first platform that bundles best-of-breed open source network and IT infrastructure monitoring tools into a completely integrated package that's free, and easy to install and configure.

"There have been more than 2,000 installations of GroundWork Open Source since its public release less than six months ago," said Ranga Rangachari, CEO of GroundWork. "Being named one of the finalists in a prestigious Linux Journal award is a great validation for the code that so many GroundWork and open source community leaders have contributed to. GroundWork intends to keep extending the feature sets and value of our open source version, and continue contributing innovation back to the open source IT operations community."

GroundWork Monitor Open Source provides network administrators with a powerful open source tool that can monitor a wide range of enterprise platforms and device types, including Linux, Unix, Windows, SNMP devices, etc. GroundWork Monitor Open Source also provides a framework that makes it extremely easy for organizations to 'plug-and-play' with supplemental best-of-breed open source monitoring and management technologies such as: MRTG (http://oss.oetiker.ch/mrtg/), RRDtool (http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/), ntop (http://www.ntop.org/), Network Weathermap (http://netmon.grnet.gr/weathermap/), Cacti (http://www.cacti.net/), Ganglia (http://ganglia.sourceforge.net/) and many more.

GroundWork Monitor Open Source is freely available for download on the GroundWork website at http://www.groundworkopensource.com/community/index.html or via SourceForge at http://sourceforge.net/projects/gwmos under the GNU General Public License (GPL).

About GroundWork

San Francisco-based GroundWork Open Source, Inc. (www.groundworkopensource.com) is the leader in the fast-growth market for open source IT operations management software. The company integrates, enhances and develops leading open source software to deliver comprehensive IT operations management solutions. With GroundWork solutions, enterprises leverage the flexibility and low cost of open source tools to achieve enterprise-level availability, performance and operational efficiency at a fraction of the cost of commercial software. GroundWork customers represent a variety of industries, including manufacturing, government, financial services, education, and high technology. GroundWork investors are Mayfield and Canaan Partners.