MILKYWAY NETWORKS CORPORATION ADDS THREE RESELLERS TO PREMIER PARTNER PROGRAM

New Partners Bring Expertise in UNIX and Security Sales and Support

SAN JOSE, Calif., July 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Milkyway Networks Corporation(TORONTO: MKY), a worldwide leader in network security solutions, announced today that it has signed three new resellers, Lande Group, AVCOM Systems and Secure Distribution to its Premier Partner reseller program.

According to Roberto Medrano, Milkyway vice president of worldwide marketing and business development, "Partnering with world-class value-added-resellers (VARs) such as these three provides Milkyway with highly trained security sales and service professionals located in strategic markets across the United States." Medrano continued to say, "These relationships provide Milkyway's customers with 'turnkey' solutions to fill all their security needs, from system design through maintenance."

Lande Group, headquarterd in New York, is structured to provide a comprehensive suite of professional Internet design, development and hosting solutions, including a special focus on Internet security. Consistently ranked in LAN Magazine's LAN 100 review of top system integrators, Lande Group gives Milkyway a strong presence on the East Coast, especially with the financial community in the metropolitan New York area. According to Lande Group vice president of marketing Howard M. Cohen, "In partnering with Milkyway Networks, Lande is aligning itself with the highest-level of security technology, a criteria that is of extreme importance, especially to Lande's client base in the financial community."

AVCOM, headquartered in the Silicon Valley, specializes in implementing Sun Microsystems solutions and offers an array of hardware and software products to handle the dynamic nature of enterprise computing. Sun Microsystems' original value-added reseller, AVCOM is a major UNIX system reseller and is a leading provider of enterprise-to-Internet/Intranet technology. AVCOM provides Milkyway with a substantial presence on the West Coast, as well as other major U.S. markets. "As the top selling application level firewall running on the Sun SPARCstation(TM), Milkyway Networks' Black Hole(TM) is a perfect fit for our customer base," said Bob Weeks, AVCOM vice president. "Milkyway Networks' UNIX-based, 'hardened kernel' solution is the most technologically advanced and most secure solution we have found today," Weeks continued.

Secure Distribution, headquartered in Oakland, California, is unique among U.S. distributors in that it focuses strictly on the Internet and internal network security arena. Secure Distribution's approach consolidates sales, fulfillment and distribution of world-class information security products in a single source. According to Norman Yamaguchi, director of sales for Secure Distribution, "Adding Milkyway Networks solutions to our 'security suite' further establishes Secure Distribution as the one-stop shopping center for all of a customer's information security needs."

Milkyway Networks recently initiated a comprehensive Premier Partner channel marketing program to augment the traditional distribution channel with delivery mechanisms to provide on-site security consultation, risk analysis, installation and technical support. Headed by James Zahoudanis, senior director of channel marketing and business development for Milkyway Networks, the Premier Partner program was conceived to provide Milkyway Networks' partners with best-in-class marketing and technical support.

About Black Hole

Black Hole, Milkyway Networks' flagship product, is a second generation application-level Internet and Intranet firewall. Black Hole is the industry's first application-level firewall to support Virtual Private Networks (VPN) using a Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) that is implemented on the Internet today and is also the only firewall to be certified by a government agency. Black Hole holds a dominant share of the Canadian firewall market. Black Hole recently won Canada's prestigious SCOAP (Society of Canadian Office Automation Professionals) Award and was selected to the Short List in Network World's firewall Buyer's Guide.

About Milkyway Networks

With U.S. headquarters in San Jose, California, Milkyway Networks is a leading global supplier of Internet and Intranet security applications designed to safeguard corporate-wide information. The Company's vision is to provide a single security solution for internetworking, no matter where users or servers are located on the network. Incorporated in 1994, Milkyway Networks is a public company traded on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbol "MKY." For additional information on all Milkyway Network's suite of security products and services, consult the Milkyway World Wide Website at http://www.milkyway.com.

NOTE: Black Hole is a registered trademark of Milkyway Networks Corporation. Other trademarks are properties of their respective owners.

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