Seattle, WA, September 1, 2004 - LizardTech, Inc., a leader in software solutions that make it significantly easier to manage, distribute and access digital content such as aerial photography, satellite imagery and scanned color documents, today announced the launch of Express Server 5.0, LizardTech's cost-effective software solution for distributing high-resolution images and documents over the Internet. Key enhancements to Express Server 5.0 include the support for JPEG 2000 and OpenGIS® WMS publishing adding to the product's array of interoperability tools such as the ArcIMS integration toolkit.  In addition to supporting industry-standard file formats and open standards such as TIFF, JPEG and BMP, as well as MrSID®, DjVu® format, Express Server 5.0 now also supports JPEG 2000. "The continuing growth in the amount of geospatial imagery organizations need to manage makes efficient access, storage, and distribution essential," said Karen Morley, LizardTech's Vice President, Global Marketing.  "Express Server 5.0 with JPEG 2000 support and interoperability with OpenGIS WMS publishing enables thousands of GIS professionals and government agencies to achieve rapid distribution and viewing of massive high-resolution aerial photographs and satellite imagery from disparate software systems and distributed architectures." Express Server 5.0 software delivers instant online viewing of geospatial imagery over any device using existing hardware.

About LizardTech, a Celartem Company
LizardTech was founded in 1992 to build valuable business solutions from technologies created by the world's leading research organizations including Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) and AT&T Labs.  LizardTech is a leader in applying state-of-the-art technologies to the real-world challenges of managing, distributing, and accessing large complex digital content such as aerial photographs, satellite imagery, and color scanned documents.  LizardTech's software is installed on millions of desktops and integrated into a wide variety of platforms and applications. LizardTech has offices in Seattle, London and Tokyo, and is part of Celartem Technology Inc. (Osaka Securities Exchange, Hercules:4330), a Japan-based technology company focused on storage and distribution technologies for digital images.  For more information about LizardTech, visit www.lizardtech.com <http://www.lizardtech.com>. 

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