For Immediate Release Contact: Jeremy Milner
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Courtney Chandler
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courtney@revolutionpartners.com
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REVOLUTION PARTNERS ANNOUNCES $40MM FINANCING

Investment Bank Continues its Growth With the Year’s Third Largest Hardware Financing

BOSTON, MA (November 11, 2004) -- Revolution Partners, a leading investment bank serving emerging growth companies, has announced the closing of its most recent growth capital transaction, a $40 million Series B financing for Utah-based Linux Networx, Inc ., the leading innovator in high performance Linux cluster systems. Revolution Partners acted as exclusive placement agent to Linux Networx, executing the third largest U.S. private growth financing in the hardware sector this year.

The financing delivers Linux Networx two high-quality partners - Oak Investment Partners and Tudor Ventures - with great track records of building category leading companies. The proceeds will be used to accelerate the introduction of new products and to expand the company’s sales and

marketing functions. For Revolution, the transaction represents a successful milestone as it extends its activities in the hardware sector.

“Linux Networx is a strong company with great IP that will drive its future growth.” said Mike MacKeen, head of the private capital group at Revolution Partners “The company has the opportunity to become the next significant systems vendor, and we’re pleased to deliver them partners who can help achieve that goal.” Revolution Partners has seen strong growth in its financing business. MacKeen and his colleagues have raised more than a billion dollars in expansion capital for emerging growth companies in the software, communications, technology services and network infrastructure sectors. The Linux Networx financing follows a $50 million financing last year for VistaPrint, Ltd.

Linux Networx provides proven cluster computing systems that deliver maximum sustained performance and high return on investment. To date, the company has built some of the fastest cluster systems in the world, and boasts numerous Fortune 500 customers. The company’s systems deploy its innovative Evolocity® hardware and Clusterworx® cluster management tools to execute complex applications for simulation, analysis and modeling. Linux Networx customers include organizations involved in manufacturing, life sciences research, oil and gas exploration and government.

Revolution Partners is a Boston-based investment banking firm that services a wide range of emerging growth sectors. In previous positions at Credit Suisse First Boston, Robertson Stephens, Donaldson Lufkin & Jenrette, and Broadview, the firm’s professionals executed transactions exceeding $50 billion in value, including some of the most successful equity offerings and mergers in history. Revolution Partners is committed to applying this senior-level experience to challenging transactions in the historically under-served emerging growth middle market.



Revolution Partners is one of the nation's largest investment banks focused exclusively on Mergers & Acquisitions and Private Capital Fundraising Advisory Services for technology companies. All of our clients benefit from senior-level attention from partners with deep sector expertise.

Revolution Partners was founded in 2001 by former senior technology bankers from major Wall Street investment banks. With offices in Boston, San Francisco and Los Angeles, Revolution applies partner-level experience to the successful execution of advisory and financing transactions for emerging technology companies in industry sectors including software, Internet business services, telecommunications, wireless, clean tech, digital media, storage and semiconductors. For more information, visit www.revolutionpartners.com.
 
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