World's Leading e-Learning Solution Now Available to Retailers

Mentor line of e-learning solutions to debut at retail through partnership with Channel Sources

Norwalk, Connecticut, USA, August 23, 2001 -- The world's most successful line of e-learning solutions, with more than six million licenses sold in corporations worldwide, is now available to retailers, it was announced today, timed to coincide with the release of Microsoft's newest operating system - Windows XP. Mentor Media Group (www.trymentor.com), the developer of the Mentor™ line of e-learning solutions, has announced a partnership with Channel Sources, LLC, a leading software reseller consulting and distribution company, to distribute Mentor Media Group's e-learning software to retailers throughout North America. Mentor is currently used by some of the largest corporations in the world - including 6 of the top Fortune 10 companies. The agreement marks the first time the company's product line will be marketed through retailers to consumers.

"Since 1998 our customers have asked for consumer versions of our products for home and family use, but we decided to wait until we could properly support such an effort," says Dan Gallo, president and CEO of Mentor Media Group. "Let's face it, most people won't pour through a software manual or invest the 6 to 8 hours necessary to take a training course. Mentor makes users instantly successful with new software without a major time investment, without frustration, and absolutely without taking any training. Mentor debunks the myth that computing technology is a secret language for a select few and opens the door for everyone to participate in its power."

Mentor™ for Windows XP will be available simultaneous to Microsoft's launch of Windows XP, slated for October 25, 2001. This timing establishes Mentor for Windows XP as the first full support tool on the market for Window XP's highly anticipated launch.

Mentor is comprised of short, just-in-time multimedia demonstrations designed to answer questions on how to perform functions in Window XP and other applications. Mentor's always available, easy to understand support has helped hundreds of major corporations quickly get their people up to speed using new desktop applications. It is just that degree of value and functionality that promises to make Mentor a big hit with individual PC users and small businesses across America, few of whom have access to help-desks or costly training departments.

At the same time, Mentor provides retailers with an excellent add-on product that strikes at the very concern of Window XP buyers, mainly how to master the new application quickly without downtime.

Along with the launch of Mentor for Windows XP, the company is releasing Home Edition versions of its Mentor™ for Office 2000, Mentor™ for Windows 2000, Mentor™ for Windows Me, and Mentor™ for the Web (includes Mentors for Outlook Express 6.0, Internet Explorer 6.0, MSN Explorer, MSN Messenger, and AOL's Instant Messenger), followed by Mentor™ for Office XP in January, 2002.

Mentor Media Group and Channel Sources will first introduce Mentor for Windows XP at RetailVision on September 4, 2001 and support its launch with an intensive merchandising campaign.

About Mentor Media Group

Mentor Media Group is a leading business communications company offering custom and off-the-shelf e-learning products. With over six million user licenses sold, its flagship solution, Mentor™ helps companies get more out of their new technology by making users successful as soon as the systems are deployed. Now available to individual users as well as businesses, a Mentor can be added to any software to motivate and instruct users and give them instant, multimedia demonstrations of how to perform its functions. Mentors are appropriate for a wide range of products and services offered by software developers, hardware manufactures, Internet Service Providers, device manufacturers, and developers of e-Business systems or exchanges.

Mentor delivers just-in-time, sight-and-sound multimedia Communication, Learning, and Support via local networks, CDs, local hard drives, or streamed over the Internet. Mentors are available in multiple languages for Lotus products such as Notes, Sametime, QuickPlace, and TeamRoom; for popular Microsoft products such as Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows Me, Outlook 2000, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Internet Explorer; as well as for Netscape Navigator and custom applications. Mentor has become a learning standard at Fortune 500 companies like IBM, DuPont, Verizon, DaimlerChrysler, GE Capital, Duke Energy, Colgate-Palmolive, and many smaller companies. Mentor can be experienced online at http://www.trymentor.com.

About Channel Sources, LLC

Headquartered in Brookfield Connecticut, Channel Sources has been providing outsourced sales and marketing services for the consumer software industry since 1993. Uniquely positioned to provide services ranging from consultation on initial product launches to providing real time competitive information, Channel Sources facilitates product placements directly to buyers and continues to help clients by monitoring ongoing distribution.

Channel Sources (http://www.channelsources.com) maintains offices in key reseller-buyer locations including Los Angeles, Metro NY, Dallas, Minneapolis, Miami, Newark, Toronto, Montreal and London UK.

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