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ALYA news: ALYA Signs First Distributor in South America, LonUsers Exhibition in Santa Clara, California Business Wire - May 20, 1998 11:17 %ALYA-INTERNATIONAL ALYA %CALIFORNIA %COMPUTERS %ELECTRONICS %COMED %TRADESHOW V%BW P%BW -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PALO ALTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 20, 1998--ALYA International, Inc. ("ALYA" or the "Company") announced today the signing of a distributor agreement with Codas Electronica S.A. ("Codas") of Argentina. Codas will market ALYA products throughout South America, particularly in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Uruguay and Paraguay (known as the 'Mercosur' countries). Codas became the Motorola Indala distributor and representative for Mercosur countries in September 1996. Codas develops and manufactures development tools for Motorola microprocessors and microcontrollers. The company has also developed many specialized products for public transportation, industrial and automotive applications and provides technical support for developers in Argentina and Brazil. For the access control market, Codas distributes specialized products like interfaces, accessories, electromagnetic locks and biometric identification systems. Codas also provides technical support in Mercosur for developers and dealers using LonWorks technology from Echelon Corporation. ALYA is participating in the LonUsers International Spring '98 Conference & Exhibition being held May 20-21, 1998, in Santa Clara, California. Keynote presentations by the Utility/Energy, Transportation, Semiconductor and the Building Automation Industries will review the penetration of LonWorks products. The LonWorks solution provides the technology platform helping to deliver new products and services being implemented in the Utility industry because of de-regulation. LonWorks based fiber optic control solutions for automating complex control systems are reducing costs in transportation and communication. Every aspect of building automation design and integration is undergoing fundamental change due to the ability of LonWorks technology to cost-effectively integrate commercial control processes. ALYA International, Inc. (OTC/BB Symbol:ALYA) is a leader in software design using Microsoft's(R) Windows NT(R), Echelon's(R) LonWorks(R) technology and Local/Wide area networks communication protocols. ALYA's first product, O.P.E.N.cortex(tm) is a development platform based on these de facto standards directed to companies implementing applications for end users such as building management systems and process control applications. ALYA has utilized this platform in the design of its second product O.P.E.N.centrix(tm), an application for Security Systems and Building Access. LonWorks technology is a de facto standard in the building automation and process control industries providing a new standard for open architecture and interoperable control systems. The LonMark(R) Association, supported by Motorola(R), Honeywell Inc.(R), Johnson Controls, Inc.(R), Olivetti(R), BTE(R) and Toshiba Corporation(R) endorses LonWorks. ALYA is one of the first companies to develop "plug and play" open architecture (ALYA's O.P.E.N.(tm) "Open Platform for Essential Networks") hardware and software for the security and control industries.