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Tadpole Technology PLC
9 January 2001


Tadpole-Cycle Completes First Motorola Military Hardware Order

Mobile computing and network infrastructure vendor Tadpole Technology plc
today announces that its newly-formed hardware division, Tadpole-Cycle, has
completed its first significant contract from Motorola Inc.

The order, with a total value of $750,000, covers the supply of custom,
high-density computer boards for use in Motorola's Systems Solutions for the
Global Mission - battlespace proven systems used by international military and
government customers to support a wide range of global missions.

One of the most advanced C4I (Command, Control, Communications, Computers and
Intelligence)systems ever developed, Motorola's mobile deployment systems
allow military commanders to visualise situations with a fidelity never before
possible and take decisions with the highest possible certainty. A mobile
system for rapid deployment, it supports a wide range of global missions
including wartime battlefield management, low, medium and high-intensity
crisis management, peace keeping operations, war on drugs, and contingency
operations.

Harnessing the power and flexibility of Tadpole-Cycle's compute intense, small
footprint systems, Motorola's Global Missions solutions provide real-time,
correlated displays of Moving Target Indicator (MTI), Signal Intelligence
(SIGINT), Imagery and other data. Display screens can be captured and
disseminated to commanders, fire support, and Image Product Libraries. The
system is compliant with the Defense Information Infrastructure Common
Operating Environment (DII COE).

Tadpole-Cycle was created by Tadpole just three weeks ago following the
acquisition of Cycle Computer Corporation to extend its business in the
Sun-Solaris computing world. Merging Tadpole's existing hardware division,
Tadpole-RDI, with Cycle, the combined entity has a unique portfolio of
powerful and compact solutions for Sun Microsystems' customers in industry,
commerce and government. 

The portfolio comprises portable workstations and servers that take the cost
out of mobile computing, and high-density, rack mountable and embedded systems
that challenge the concept of limited computing capability in space-restricted
areas, or in keeping existing UltraSPARC hardware abreast of technological
progress and capability. Tadpole-Cycle is headquartered in Carlsbad,
California with operations in Cupertino, Silicon Valley and Europe.

Bernard Hulme, group chief executive of Tadpole Technology, comments:
"Motorola's advanced field solution well-illustrates the value of Tadpole's
unique hardware offerings as infrastructures for the Sun-computing world -
compute-dense, compact solutions that can be used in any number of space
restricted conditions, such as Humvee military deployment vehicles."
 


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