INTEL DEVELOPER FORUM, SAN JOSE, Calif., September 9, 2002 - Bull announced today at the Intel Developer Forum in San Jose a new important step in its strategy to develop a complete portfolio of Intel® Itanium® 2-based systems, with the planned adoption of the Intel Server Platform SR870BN4platform as part of its core product offering.

The Intel SR870BN4, a 4-way capable server platform based on the Intel Itanium 2 processor, will be included in the Bull product offer. Products are expected to be available in the fourth quarter of this year. Early shipments of Bull 4-way Itanium 2 servers are already under way at several leading-edge customer sites.

"Our customers have been expecting the time when demanding enterprise workloads can be fully supported on high-volume, standard technologies. With the commercial availability of the Intel Itanium 2 processor, and our customers will benefit from the low cost of ownership of such technologies combined with their breakthrough performance and scalability", said Michel Guillemet , Chief Technical Officer of Bull.

Today's announcement is another step in Bull's commitment to the Intel Itanium processor family, and a key element of Bull's business and technology co-operation with Intel. Earlier this year, Bull has announced its strategic support of the Intel Itanium 2 processor, to be utilized on the Windows .NET and Linux operating systems, as well as on Bull's GCOS mainframe servers. Bull already presented at IDF Europe in Munich on May 28th a 16-way prototype derived from its FAME (Flexible Architecture for Multiple Environments) program, that will eventually result in the delivery of 8-way, 16-way and 32-way-capable Bull servers.

"Bull has a history of developing and servicing highly demanding enterprise servers, and with its introduction of servers based on the Itanium 2 processor, it is bringing even greater performance, reliability and scalability into its core offering," said Richard Dracott, group marketing director, Intel Enterprise Platforms Group.

As the Intel server platform SR870BN4 is based on the Intel E8870 chipset, also selected by Bull to create large-scale servers under the FAME program. Customers can expect to benefit from a very coherent product line, with all of its components based on the same building blocks, further ensuring the lowest TCO.

Bull's 4-way servers based on the Intel Itanium 2 processor will be available in a variety of configurations, supporting all versions of the Intel Itanium 2 processor, with speeds of 900 Mhz and 1Ghz, L3 cache sizes of 1.5 MB and 3 MB, and memory from 512 MB up to 32 GB. With an optimized rack form factor of 4U, as many as 8 Bull 4-way servers may be stacked in a 36U cabinet. A cost-optimized packaging will also be available supporting a half-size 19U cabinet.

Initial markets for Bull 4-way servers will be in the areas of high-performance computing and Internet business applications such as portals and ERP/CRM implementations.

Bull will also provide a wide array of implementation, deployment and management services, to enable its customers to seamlessly create business services leveraging all the benefits of Bull's server platforms based on the Intel Itanium 2 processor. Migration services from other environments to Windows and Linux will also be provided. Such services will be backed by Bull's competence centers that have been involved for many years in enterprise-class deployments, specializing in performance optimization and high availability, as well as by Bull's Application Solution Centers, created to assist ISVs and software developers in the port and optimization of their applications on the Intel Itanium Processor Family.

About Bull:
Bull is an international IT group that specialises in designing, developing and implementing secure IT infrastructures.
Bull is dedicated to helping customers transform their processes and infrastructures in order to take full advantage of information technology to drive their market growth.
To reach this objective, Bull provides a complete offer that includes not only IT services, from consulting to systems integration and outsourcing but also the design and development of infrastructure solutions, with particular emphasis on servers, storage and secure management software. Bull has gained strong recognition in the major economic sectors, such as, the public sector, finance, industry and telecommunications.

(Intel and Itanium are trademarks or registered trademark of Intel Corporation or its subsidiaries in the United States and other countries. All registered trade marks are the property of their respective owners)

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Marie-Claude Bessis
Director Corporate & Financial Communication
Group Bull
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E-mail: marie-claude.bessis@bull.net