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Elluminate Introduces Elluminate Live! Version 5 With Competitive Buy-Out Offer

No User Left Behind™ Design Ensures High Quality Experience for All

POMPANO BEACH, Fla. (February 23, 2004)) – Elluminate, Inc., a leader in Web conferencing and live eLearning for real-time organizations, today announced Elluminate Live! version 5 with three new editions for corporate, academic and small group environments. Formerly called vClass™, Elluminate Live! has been renamed to better capture its rich, real-time capabilities. To kick-off the announcement, the company is offering a limited-time buy-out for organizations using competing products.

Elluminate Live! forever ends the reliance on telephone-based conference calls to support Web conferencing. Its No User Left Behind™ design and Collaborative Communication Framework (CCF) ensure crystal-clear, two-way Voice over IP (VoIP) and in-sync communications for all participants, regardless of their location or connection speed. This means there is no lag time or garbled voices, even at 28.8 modem speeds.

These capabilities, along with affordable flat-rate pricing, broad cross-platform support for the simultaneous participation of Windows, Macintosh and Solaris users, and advanced, yet easy-to-use, moderator tools, ensure the most comprehensive, cost-effective solution for live remote training and online meetings.

"Organizations should consider real-time collaboration solutions to increase user productivity, reduce cycle times, and improve team coordination and information sharing. Web conferencing technologies deliver clear benefits when applied to workforce training, project management, sales readiness and other business processes," said Mike Gotta, senior vice president and principal analyst with META Group. "Successful solutions, however, must focus on the end user experience. Simplicity, not bells and whistles, is critical for success in these initiatives."

"At Elluminate, we understand that live eLearning and Web conferencing are all about the experience," said Elluminate CEO Nashir Samanani. "Content, instructors, and meeting facilitation can be great, but if the user experience is poor, real communication is sacrificed as are opportunities for sales, knowledge transfer and productivity."

Elluminate Live! version 5 offers multiple product enhancements, including an audio wizard that enables users to select volume preferences, whiteboard improvements and added usability features that serve to enhance the product’s reputation for providing superior user experience. Elluminate Live! is now available in three editions:

Elluminate Live! Enterprise Edition™ allows companies to train more people in less time and improve information exchange and real-time collaboration with online meetings, while significantly reducing travel and teleconferencing costs in every department of the organization.
Elluminate Live! Academic Edition™, which includes a graphing calculator and math symbol library, enables educational institutions to add real-time interaction to existing asynchronous distance learning programs, increasing student participation, improving performance and test scores, and leveraging limited teaching resources.
Elluminate Live! Team Edition™ provides real-time eLearning and Web conferencing for small meetings, one-on-one sessions, and training for a limited number of participants.

Competitive Buy-Out Offer
As part of the announcement, Elluminate is offering an attractive competitive buy-out program to organizations using WebEx and a number of other competing solutions. Organizations switching to Elluminate Live! may utilize the product at no cost for the balance of the existing competitive contract (up to 8 months), with the signing of an annual ASP or software licensing agreement. The offer is valid through March 31, 2004. For details, go to www.elluminate.com/competitive_buyout_form.jsp.

Availability
Elluminate Live! will become generally available on March 1, 2004 in Enterprise or Academic Editions as either a hosted service or server-based, per-seat license. The Team Edition is available as a hosted service in 3-, 5-, and 10-seat configurations for a 30-day or 1-year subscription starting at $240 per month. Elluminate’s fixed-rate pricing model eliminates potentially costly per-minute charges, common with other products, to encourage usage. Specific pricing can be obtained directly from Elluminate or its global channel of reseller partners.

About Elluminate
Elluminate, Inc. provides live eLearning and Web conferencing solutions for the real-time organization. Its No User Left Behind™ technology design ensures the best user experience for all through superior-quality VoIP, communications that are in-sync regardless of connection speed, broad cross-platform support, and advanced yet easy-to-use ESP Moderator Tools. Elluminate products create a rich, collaborative environment for live remote training and online meetings, all while delivering lower upfront costs and strong ROI. Headquartered in Calgary, Alberta, Canada and Pompano Beach, Fla., Elluminate serves corporate and academic organizations such as T-Mobile, Interstate Hotels and Resorts, Penn State University, Johns Hopkins University and many more. For more information, visit www.elluminate.com.

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Elluminate Live!, No User Left Behind, and vClass are all trademarks of Elluminate, Inc. Other company or product names are the property of their respective owners.

Elluminate Contact:
Kerri Taylor
Blanc and Otus for Elluminate
Phone: (678) 477-1126
ktaylor@blancandotus.com