News From: Columbia Data Products, Inc.

925 Sunshine Lane, Suite 1080 · Altamonte Springs, FL 32714

For Immediate Release

Columbia Data PRoducts Launches SNAPTO Software,

adding data protection to popular financial applications

SnapTO^™ Software Integrates with Microsoft^® Business Solutions—Great Plains

ALTAMONTE SPRINGS, FLORIDA March 19, 2003 — Columbia Data Products Inc. (CDP) today launched SnapTO^™ software, its latest True Image^™ technology product, that provides integrated data protection for financial applications. CDP is highlighting SnapTO during Convergence, the Microsoft Business Solutions’ North American Customer Conference held at the Gaylord Palms Resort and Convention Center, Orlando Florida, March 19 – 21, 2003. CDP is a gold sponsor for the show.

SnapTO provides Great Plains users instantaneous, fully integrated data protection by automatically creating hundreds of snapshots of financial data based on a user-defined schedule, prior to each posting and other critical processes or manually as needed.

Notable among the groundbreaking features of SnapTO software is the ClickBack^™ Feature, which takes the Great Plains user to the selected snapshot with a few clicks of a mouse. Data problems caused by user error, database corruption, hardware or software glitches, and most viruses are eliminated. SnapTO software takes the user “back in time” to before the problem with the option to SnapTO ten minutes ago, one hour ago, prior to posting, this morning or even to any user defined point-in-time.

All the functionality of SnapTO software is available from the Great Plains tool bar. Standard Microsoft SQL Server security established for the accounting software, assures a solution that is both easy and reliable for all users within the organization.

“Financial data is mission-critical to every company; downtime is devastating, both from a loss of productivity and revenue standpoint,” stated Alan Welsh, president of CDP. “SnapTO software allows a company to instantly recover from the majority of data accidents that have happened to most companies at one time or another. SnapTO minimizes the impact of these events.”

About SnapTO Software

Key features and benefits for the Great Plains user include:

• Minimized down time – Instant data restoration via snapshots
• Complete flexibility – ClickBack (revert) to any user-defined point-in-time
• Total protection – Timed and event triggered snapshots of financial data
• Instant access – Snapshots maintained on existing hard drive
• Worry-free use – Automatic pre-post snapshots for all modules
• Protection when needed – Manual snapshots may be initiated as needed
• Advanced planning and auditing capability – ability to work with data frame, a specific point in time, without impacting current transactions, operations or snapshots
• Integrated Primary Data Protection for Great Plains v.7 for Microsoft SQL Server running on Windows 2000, XP or .NET

Pricing and Availability for SnapTO Software

SnapTO software is available through CDP’s network of authorized value added resellers. Suggested retail price is dependent on the total number of seats required.

About Columbia Data Products

Columbia Data Products, the leader in True Image^™ storage solutions, develops live primary data protection for Windows and NetWare environments. Founded in 1976, CDP enables its OEM partners, such as Microsoft, IBM, Veritas and Dell, as well as its Financial Value Added Resellers, to deliver robust yet easy-to-use snapshot and open file storage solutions. Recognized by Deloitte & Touche as a fastest growing technology company, CDP’s True Image based solutions including Persistent Storage Manager^™, Open Transaction Manager^™ and SnapTO^™ products have been widely adopted with an installed base of over one million servers worldwide. Columbia Data Products is a privately held corporation headquartered in Altamonte Springs, Florida. For more information call 407.869.6700 or visit the website www.cdp.com.

For more information contact:

Sydney Curtis

Director Sales Development

Columbia Data Products

407.869.6700/ scurtis@cdp.com

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Columbia Data Products, SnapTO, ClickBack, OTM, Open Transaction Manager, True Image, True Throttling and SnapBack Live are trademarks of Columbia Data Products, Inc. Other product names mentioned herein may be trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their respective companies.