Brings Increased Access, Convenience and Functionality to Live, Online Enterprise Learning

Troy, NY, August 3, 1999 – LearnLinc Corporation, formerly known as Interactive Learning International Corporation (ILINC), the leading provider of live, online solutions for enterprise learning, today announced LearnLinc ^® 4.0. This mature, fourth generation release of LearnLinc Corp.’s flagship product reflects extensive input and requests from LearnLinc customers worldwide, resulting in a product designed to meet the needs of corporate training from the ground up. LearnLinc 4.0 provides users with increased accessibility, enhanced collaboration, and sophisticated classroom management with cutting-edge features like firewall-friendly access, expanded application sharing, new assessment capabilities, and SQL Server support.

 "As a LearnLinc 3.0 customer, we've seen significant savings to our training costs through the Career Enhancement University. With LearnLinc 4.0, we fully expect to see even greater cost-savings, as well as increased student satisfaction," said Don Warner, Senior Manager Career Enhancement University at MCI WorldCom. "One major benefit of LearnLinc 4.0 is the greater number of students per session that can use application sharing. Increasing the instructor to student ratio increases the return on investment for MCI WorldCom, while features such as Assistant Instructor ensure that students continue to receive personal attention and a first rate learning experience."

 LearnLinc 4.0 accelerates the millions of dollars worth of savings and productivity gains reported by customers including, Aetna US Healthcare, MCI WorldCom and other industry leaders. In fact, most organizations realize a three-fold return on their LearnLinc investment within six months of implementation. As the standard for live, online learning, LearnLinc solutions are fully deployed at more Global 2000 corporations and universities than any other solution. In addition, LearnLinc 4.0’s open, scaleable architecture allows for easy integration with solutions from LearnLinc Corp.’s best of breed partners, including Macromedia, Intel and Asymetrix to deliver a robust, total learning system capable of training thousands of employees worldwide.

 "LearnLinc Corp. provides an Internet learning solution that is an effective enterprise training tool," said Jim Ayube, Senior Analyst, Aberdeen Group. "LearnLinc Corp.’s virtual classroom software enables students and the instructor to interact in a manner similar to a traditional classroom environment. LearnLinc 4.0 can take care of a wide range of enterprise training demands with its ability to combine audio or video conferencing, live application sharing, collaborative whiteboard, quiz capability, computer-based training, and private or public text chat in a comprehensive, content-neutral learning environment."

 LearnLinc 4.0 New Features and Benefits: Firewall Friendly – LearnLinc 4.0 uses HTTP tunneling for easy access through corporate firewalls and offers browser-based diagnostics for firewall configuration to speed deployment, a critical consideration for just in time corporate training.

 Integration with Microsoft SQL Server – LearnLinc 4.0 is integrated with Microsoft SQL Server (part of Microsoft BackOffice) to offer a more efficient and scaleable database option for large-scale online learning deployments. LearnLinc also supports Microsoft Windows, NT Workstation, NT Server, Internet Explorer, PowerPoint, and Netshow.

 Multi-Threaded Software Skills Training – LearnLinc 4.0 is the first live, online learning software to allow sharing across the entire desktop for software skills training on multiple applications, enabling instructors to demonstrate the interaction between complex application interfaces.

 Testing & Assessment – LearnLinc 4.0’s Testing & Assessment capability provides instructors with options for easy-to-use test authoring, storing results, automatic scoring, and comprehensive reporting.

 Multi-lingual Virtual Campus – The Virtual Campus Internationalization Kit allows customers and partners to create student access to course catalogs and class registration in any language. Spanish and German versions of the Virtual Campus are already available from LearnLinc Corp.

 Assistant Instructor – LearnLinc 4.0 allows one or more assistant instructors to log onto an online class to monitor text chat, feedback, and student responses, providing personalized attention to students and allowing the instructor to focus on class content and presentation.

 QuickLinc – With QuickLinc, LearnLinc 4.0 instructors, authors, and administrators can transform Microsoft PowerPoint slides into LearnLinc-ready web pages in seconds for instructor-led LearnLinc classes or self-paced student learning.

 LearnLinc ExpressDocs – LearnLinc 4.0 ExpressDocs are designed to speed access to LearnLinc concepts and shorten the learning curve for administrators, instructors and students.

 LearnLinc 4.0 continues to offer all the virtual classroom features that customers have come to expect in the award-winning LearnLinc classroom environment: instructor/student floor control, class coordination, synchronized multimedia or Web-based courseware, application sharing, whiteboard and text chat, instant student progress verification with polling, Q & A, and feedback. In addition, LearnLinc maintains the widest selection of communications options, including audio and video conferencing, streaming video, and IP multicasting.

 "LearnLinc pioneered the live, online learning solutions market. Today we are still the only organization creating enterprise virtual training solutions based on the actual needs and feedback of customers," said Degerhan "Dare" Usluel, president and CEO of LearnLinc Corp. "Our commitment to our customers and to the quality of the learning process is evidenced by the continued evolution of our flagship LearnLinc solution and our stellar list of new and loyal companies in the upper stratosphere of global businesses." Pricing and Availability LearnLinc 4.0 is scheduled to ship in the third quarter of 1999. Concurrent user server pricing ranges from $700 per user to $1,300 per user, depending on volume. LearnLinc clients may be distributed to an unlimited number of desktops, without any per named user charge.

 About LearnLinc Corporation

 LearnLinc Corporation is the creator of LearnLinc software for live, online learning. A recipient of the prestigious 1999 Crossroads A-List Award, LearnLinc Corp. develops solutions for Fortune 1000 and Global 2000 companies and universities that maximize learning quality using a live, interactive virtual classroom that embraces multimedia and web-based courseware. LearnLinc Corp. offers the only complete online learning solution for the Internet, intranet and wide area network environments, enabling customers to train employees worldwide with the most economical infrastructure.

 LearnLinc Corp. customers include Office Depot, Aetna US Healthcare, Lucent Technologies, Chrysler Financial, Kent State University, Computer Associates, and MCI WorldCom. Major strategic partners and resellers include IT training leaders ExecuTrain and New Horizons and learning technology leaders such as Macromedia and Asymetrix. Companies that invest financially in LearnLinc Corp. include Intel Corporation, Exponential Business Development Company, and Geocapital Partners, established venture firms that further validate the strength of LearnLinc Corp.’s technology, leadership and vision. More information about LearnLinc Corp. can be found by calling (518) 286-7000.

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