For Immediate Release
August 19, 2004

Contact:

David Johnson
President
Graphics Server Technologies, LP
206-625-6900  x3012
davidj@graphicsserver.com
http://www.graphicsserver.com

Aquest to Launch Graphics Server .NET Charting Component
Graphics Server .NET 2.0 Available to Aquest Customers for Free

SEATTLE - August 19, 2004 - Charting technology leader, Graphics Server Technologies, LP announces a partnership with Aquest Hosting to offer the Graphics Server .NET charting technology to its shared hosting customers.

Through this partnership, Aquest Hosting offers Graphics Server .NET v2 - Web Hosting Edition on their ASP.NET hosting platform for use by all their hosting customers at no additional cost. Developers can download the component from the Graphics Server web site for local testing and development and then simply upload their ASP.NET application to the Aquest Hosting server environment.

Graphics Server .NET 2.0, released in July 2004, continues over 14 years of charting technology for the Graphics Server line of Windows software components. Graphics Server technology was bundled with Microsoft Visual Basic Professional when first released, and has been OEMed by many other leading software companies including Cognos, Borland, ESRI and Enterprise Blocks.

More information about Graphics Server can be found at http://www.graphicsserver.com.

Aquest Hosting provides professional ASP.Net web hosting and responsive customer support at reasonable prices. More information can be found at http://www.aquesthosting.com.

Graphics Server Technologies can be reached at P.O. Box 4545, Seattle, WA 98104 and (206) 625-6900.

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