05-Apr-05: Industry veteran to head privately funded web collaboration tools venture

Thomas Torf named CEO of Virtual Application Partners, LLC

Scotts Valley, Calif., <April 5, 2005> - Virtual Application Partners, LLC today announced that Thomas Torf has joined on as CEO. Previous to Mr. Torf’s joining the firm, Virtual Application Partners was the developer of smartVerse, a proprietary platform for creating dynamic, multi-user, persistent simulated web environments. This technology has been productized into a variety of collaboration tools that combined online manipulation of documents and files as well as multi-participant Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) functionality and a simple user interface.

Mr. Torf has more than twenty years of successful high-tech management experience in global sales, professional services, research and development, marketing, and field operations. Previous to joining Virtual Application Partners, Mr. Torf has served as vice president and/or general manager for firms such as Covigna, a Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM) automation company; TAZZ™ Networks, a security policy management company; Placeware, a leading Web conferencing services company, which was later acquired by Microsoft®; and Borland Software in the enterprise products division. During his career, Mr. Torf has also held numerous management positions at Unisys, Sybase, and Cap Gemini/debis.

"The board recognized in Mr. Torf a seasoned high-tech professional who will take the very real technological assets of Virtual Application Partners in a market-driven direction" said James Guy Tucker, board member and investor. "We look forward to his quickly assembling an executive management team and bringing a new productization of our technology to market."

ABOUT VIRTUAL APPLICATION PARTNERS

- Virtual Application Partners is the developer of smartVerse, a proprietary, patent-pending platform for creating dynamic, multi-user, persistent simulated web environments. smartVerse is a modular framework which contains a large set of reusable software components that are easily assembled to create rich, truly interactive virtual worlds, which are suitable for a broad range of practical commercial applications. Users are able to freely interact communicate via voice and text with each other, view fully shared multimedia elements and manipulate any object in the application in real-time. The framework is modular and flexible and delivers a deep level of dynamic interactivity.

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