Raleigh, NC – April 13, 2004 – Solar Data Centers, Inc. (SDC), the only company in the world using solar energy to run every aspect of an organization’s Internet operations, today announced the addition of Lyris ListManager 7.8 to the SDC services portfolio. This new technology feature will allow SDC customers to send newsletters, press releases and action alerts to thousands of recipients easily and efficiently, while building and managing a large-scale contact database.

“To continue serving our customers at the high level they expect, we needed to add a dynamic tool that would allow them to quickly and efficiently use the Internet to communicate with their key audiences,” said Steve May, president and founder, Solar Data Centers. “The addition of Lyris 7.8 Pro is the first step by SDC in a series of initiatives that we plan to undertake throughout this year to provide customers with best-in-class Internet technology, allowing them to focus their time on running their business."

With ListManager 7.8, SDC users are able to instantly connect with key audiences (partners, customers, prospects, decision makers), using attention-grabbing e-mail messages to directly deliver focused content to thousands around the world.

ListManager includes the following features:

Dynamic distribution - ListManager can scale to send over 500,000 unique messages per hour;
Message format flexibility - ListManager can send HTML/AOL/MIME messages, attachments and international (double-byte) characters;
System compatibility - ListManager runs on Windows 2000/XP/2003 Server, Linux and Solaris SPARC. ListManager features run on all platforms;
Password-protected interface - All security levels (list, site and server) are individually password protected. Access can be limited to a range of IP addresses;
Pre-built and customized templates - ListManager includes 20 pre-built HTML templates. Users can create and save their own templates, without any HTML knowledge to create their own content;
Personalization - Personalize message fields including: to, from, subject and reply-to;
Mail merge - Merge text into emails from ListManager's built-in database table, or retrieve data from a web server;
Subscriber activity reports - View tables and charts for subscribes, confirms and unsubscribes;
Message sending statistics - See message deliveries, retries and soft vs. hard bounces as mail is sent;
User-friendly administration - ListManager quickly identifies invalid addresses and handles the information automatically;
Spam protection - By requiring new members to approve their first message, spammers are eliminated from contact lists;
Programming integration & toolkit - ListManager provides an easy-to-use Programmer's Guide for custom development, including an HTTP based programming toolkit with extensive examples;
Import web page content - HTML messages can be created by pulling web pages or other HTML content directly into messages, straight from the Internet.

About Lyris Technologies, Inc.

Lyris Technologies (www.lyris.com) is the developer of Lyris ListManager, the world's best-selling email marketing software. Over 4,000 businesses — from Fortune 500 corporations to fast-growing startups — rely on ListManager for high-performance email campaign management and analytics. Lyris also offers Lyris ListHosting for outsourced email campaigns, the Lyris MailShield software suite for spam protection, and Lyris MailEngine for fast, efficient email delivery. Founded in 1994, Lyris was recently named one of the fastest growing companies in the San Francisco Bay Area.

About Solar Data Centers, Inc.

Solar Data Centers, Inc. (SDC) is the only company in the world using solar energy to run every aspect of an organization’s Internet operations. SDC provides a full range of Web services to more than 300 clients, most of which are corporations and non-profits interested in renewable energy and environmental issues. SDC utilizes exclusively 100% solar energy to power its servers, offering a broad range of complementary services such as Web hosting, system administration, Web site design, network security, programming and database management. Solar Data Centers derives its power from solar panels installed throughout the country. Using Green Certificates -- vouchers that organizations purchase to guarantee that renewable energy enters the general power grid -- each dollar spent with SDC is guaranteed to support renewable energy sources. For more information, call 1-800-830-3415 or visit www.solardatacenters.com.

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