EDISON, N.
LINUX WORLD -- Building upon its market share
leadership for Linux-based servers worldwide, IBM today announced the
company is working with Novell to introduce a first-of-its-kind Linux
solution for small and medium businesses (SMBs) based on Linux and other
Open Source technologies.

Integrated File and Print for Linux is offered by Avnet to its resellers
with Linux and Centeris Likewise for File and Print workloads.

IBM Implementation Services for Enterprise Linux Server Consolidation

IBM Global Services provides implementation services for Enterprise Linux
server consolidation to plan, design, install and configure the
consolidation of the servers onto Linux platforms in virtualized IT
environments.

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("Intelligroup " or the "Company"), a global provider of strategic IT
outsourcing services, today announced it has completed a $10 million private
placement of an aggregate of 6,666,667 shares of the Company's common stock at
a purchase price of $1.3 percent of the
revenue in 2005; up 19 percent YTY [1]

"Open Source beyond Linux is proving itself to be a tremendously successful
business model," said Scott Handy, vice president, Linux and Open Source,
IBM."

IBM and Novell Introduce Open Middleware Offering Running on Linux for SMBs

With today's news, IBM, Novell, Intel and Avnet are partnering to introduce
new open middleware solutions running on Linux for SMBs.

Red Hat's Enterprise Linux running on multiple IBM eServer platforms has
achieved Controlled Access Protection Profile under The Common Criteria for
Information Security Evaluation, evaluation assurance level (EAL) 4 + --
also referred to as CAPP/EAL4+. This standards-based service enables
customers to lower hardware , software, subscription, installation, and
administrative support costs for various business functions .

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50 per share with its existing majority shareholders,
SOFTBANK Asia Infrastructure Fund, L. It also includes a demo-only version of
VMWare player hosting Novell's SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9, capable of
executing the entire Integrated Stack for Linux solution. At the same
time, these PHP developers will be introduced to the leading capabilities
of System i including integration, reliability, support for open standards
and low cost of ownership for application deployments. This service
will be available worldwide including in emerging countries such as Brazil,
Russia, India and China.

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Linux is the fastest growing operating system in the world in terms of unit
share.

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SAIF now owns
approximately 36% of the Company's outstanding common stock. SAIF
was founded in February 2001 following the formation of a strategic
partnership between SOFTBANK Corporation and Cisco Systems, the founding
limited partner of the fund. "With today's news, SMBs can now look forward to reducing the total
cost of IT ownership, running not only Linux, but additional Open Source
software on multiple IBM servers and blades pre-integrated by the channel. The solutions , called Integrated
Stack for Linux, are available this month.

IBM Upgrades WebSphere Application Server Community Edition

Continuing to enhance its open source application server, IBM today is
offering a new version of its WebSphere Application Server Community
Edition, WAS CE. This will provide
clients with an open source, easy-to-use scripting language for Web
development that integrates directly with existing business applications. The Common Criteria is recognized
internationally by IT professionals as the ISO standard (ISO/IEC 15408)
used by the United States government and other organizations to assess
security and assurance of technology products.

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With the
solution they can easily integrate Novell's SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
into a Windows environment including Active Directory integration on IBM
eServer xSeries or BladeCenter systems with internal or external storage.

About IBM:

IBM is the world's largest information technology company, with 80 years of
leadership in helping businesses innovate.

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9 percent of the revenue in 4Q05 and 28. "In addition , IBM is reinforcing its commitment to
the System i and open source by bringing a new, open language to the
machine. The solutions
are provided by IBM Global Services and are supported by more than 7,000
skilled Linux consultants available worldwide to help clients design,
build, and implement Linux solutions.

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Addressing customer demand to lower costs, improve flexibility and
performance , and simplify integration, today's announcement provides new
integrated software and services running Linux on multiple platforms which
will be available worldwide, including in emerging countries. No -license-fee versions of WAS CE and DB2 Express C can also be
installed on Windows servers to enhance integration into a Windows
environment. The latest version provides a broader framework and
tighter integration with Apache Tomcat applications, and helps users
create, debug, and deploy applications through enhanced Eclipse support. The IBM Implementation Service for
Enterprise Linux Distributions helps clients more quickly deploy business
applications on Linux systems.ibm.

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Intelligroup Inc. Announces Completion of $10 Million Equity Investment by SOFTBANK Asia Infrastructure Fund LP and Venture Tech Assets Pvt. Ltd.

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Clients can lower total cost of IT ownership by virtualizing and
integrating data in open and heterogeneous IT environments.

All services solutions are custom priced based on client requirements and
are available immediately for Red Hat and Novell SUSE Enterprise Linux on
all IBM Systems and on most non-IBM servers.

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It is
initially available to customers through Avnet's partner channel and
provides a fully integrated platform of web and database middleware, the
Linux operating system, and IBM eServer xSeries or BladeCenter systems with
internal or external IBM storage. This
solution also allows partners to directly install the solution with WAS CE
and DB2 Express-C without a license fee and then optionally sell it as a
service -- a solution that can be made available by the partner or from
IBM.

IBM Open Computing Development Environment is a solution made available
worldwide for developers and academics in emerging countries.

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("SAIF") , an affiliate of SOFTBANK
Corporation, and Venture Tech Assets Pvt. Cisco is a key financial and strategic partner
for SAIF. Such forward-looking statements include risks and uncertainties;
consequently , actual results may differ materially from those expressed or
implied thereby.

"As SMB customers seek to deploy infrastructure solutions while lowering
their overall costs, the combination of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server and
Intel-based IBM eServer xSeries servers provides a secure, stable and open
platform to deploy these new and cost-effective Integrated Stack for Linux
solutions," said Hal Bennett, Novell vice president of Global Partners and
Programs."

IBM and Zend plan to deliver Zend Core and Zend Platform for production
environments on the IBM System i flagship operating system, i5/OS, as well
as Zend Studio and Zend Guard development tools to develop PHP applications
for System i.

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For the developer and academic communities, IBM is offering an Integrated
Stack for Linux on IBM Systems. These versions can be installed for
development and/or deployment on either Linux or Windows.

The expanded three global services solutions include:

IBM Implementation Services for Enterprise Linux High Performance Computing
Clusters

Linux High Performing Computing (HPC) clusters can help organizations boost
the productivity, reliability and performance of Linux-based systems by
reducing management costs and server downtime.com/systems /i/software/php/

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Intelligroup develops, implements and supports information
technology solutions for global corporations and public sector organizations. SAIF currently manages over $1 billion in capital . It includes
WAS CE, DB2 Express-C and Eclipse.

"With its easy-to-use development approach , PHP is a natural fit for System
i and i5/OS customers and developers, offering improved productivity and
innovation in their business and rapid, cost-effective deployment of Web
applications," said Doron Gerstel, CEO of Zend.

IBM Implementation Service for Enterprise Linux Distributions

IBM Global Services delivers an affordable pre-packaged service for the
installation and configuration of Novell SUSE Enterprise Linux or Red Hat
Enterprise Linux operating system distributions on a client 's IBM System p,
System z, and eServer xSeries systems.

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"Further, we believe that this additional investment will contribute to the
momentum that the new management team has built over the past few months.

PRESS RELEASE New Linux and Open Source Solutions Help IBM Customers Reduce the Total Cost of IT Ownership

They include two integrated hardware and software solutions for SMB
customers with options to include IBM Total Storage:

Integrated Stack for Linux is comprised of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
from Novell and IBM servers and includes WAS CE and DB2 Express-C. Partners have
expressed a strong desire to offer customers a no charge demo and
proof-of-concept capabilities for this no-license fee middleware. Today, IBM continues to grow the Business Partner ecosystem
through support of a series of new Business Partner technologies based on
IBM Workplace technology and available to run on Linux to help customers
realize the cost efficiencies of open source technologies. Diamond Edge's VB Converter, Java Edition, will
provide tools to migrate Visual Basic applications to Java to work with IBM
Workplace Managed Client and Websphere Everyplace Deployment.

IBM and Red Hat Earn Higher Linux Security Certification

IBM and Red Hat today also announced that Red Hat Enterprise Linux v.

IBM Global Services offers the industry's most comprehensive portfolio of

Linux consultative and support offerings, from planning and design, to
implementation and technical support. Drawing on resources from across
IBM and key business partners, IBM offers a wide range of services,
solutions and technologies that enable companies to take full advantage of
the on demand era.com

[1] Based on Gartner's Worldwide Server Quarterly Statistics for 04Q05,
issued on February 21, 2006.

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The Company's onsite/offshore delivery model has enabled hundreds of customers
to accelerate results and significantly reduce costs. announced Web
scripting language, PHP, is being ported to IBM's
"all-in-one," System i business computing solution. Customers can download an Early Access version of Zend Core
for i5/OS.

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About Intelligroup
Intelligroup , Inc.

To complement the Integrated Stack for Linux, the following solution will
be available for partners and customers:

Integrated Stack for Linux Discovery DVD -- Available at no charge , this
fully functioning offering, licensed for production use by customers,
includes WAS CE and DB2 Express-C.
This improves reliability of applications through Web-tier clustering and
load balancing, WAS CE also provides additional Linux support for Red Hat
Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 4 and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9.

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IBM now ranks number one in overall Linux-based server revenue
worldwide with 27. As an option, Avnet will include Centeris
Likewise for Active Directory integration and management, allowing Linux
servers to be administered in a Windows server environment by a Windows
system administrator using a familiar Windows systems administration
console.

IBM and Zend Team to Deliver PHP Solutions to SMB Customers

As part of today's news, IBM and Zend Technologies , Inc. "PHP for System i will make
available thousands of existing PHP-based applications and open up a pool
of millions of skilled Web developers to System i clients. 4 has
successfully completed a Common Criteria (CC) evaluation achieving a new
level of security certification that will further enable Linux to be
adopted by governments and government agencies for mission-critical
operations .

IBM Offers The Widest Breadth of Services for Linux

IBM today also announced plans to expand the availability of three services
solutions to market outside of the United States and Canada . The service
includes customized installation, configuration and testing of the Linux
HPC Cluster software on client servers to help make applications run
faster. Virtualization simplifies computing and lowers costs by
consolidating multiple workloads from a data center to a single machine,
providing a logical look at all the data housed in disparate systems.

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Download an Early Access version of Zend Core for i5/OS at
http://www-03.

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"Support for PHP on i5/OS will provide Tripp Lite with additional
flexibility and freedom of choice in Web development, while using our
current investments in applications , data and skills," said Mike Pavlak,
director of Information Services for Tripp Lite, a manufacturer of power
protection equipment."

Lotus Expands Business Partner Ecosystem for Workplace software for Linux

IBM continues to build on its 100 million dollar investment in Workplace
software for Linux, which includes the 'Migration to the Penguin'
initiative.

The new tools include the Relavis eSales2ProjExec, a knowledge-sharing tool
for sales leads and sales opportunities management , and Extenda's Retail
Enterprise POS solution, an offering for food retail chains providing
customers with an enterprise class in-store solution to maximize business
flexibility. Additional new tools include PAVONE's StructureBuilder, a
Workplace Managed Client-based offering that helps organizations create
network or tree structures such as project plans, organizational charts or
document structures . IBM Global Services provides
implementation services for Enterprise Linux to install and configure
Linux HPC cluster software for Open Power or Intel-based eServer xSeries
clusters and provide any needed Linux training to clients.

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"We continue to believe that Intelligroup is extremely well-positioned to
benefit from the increasing demand for onsite and offshore ERP implementation
and support services," remarked Ravi Adusumalli, General Partner with SAIF. Certain of such risks and uncertainties are set forth in
Intelligroup's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission . For more information about IBM, visit
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About SOFTBANK Asia Infrastructure Fund
SAIF is a private equity fund investing in communications, media and
information technology product and service companies who are based, have key
operations or significant growth potential in the Asia-Pacific region.

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"This additional investment by SAIF and Venture Tech is testament to the
confidence that our existing shareholders have in the Company and its ability
to successfully execute its business strategy," commented Vikram Gulati, Chief
Executive Officer of Intelligroup . They are designed to make it
easier for SMB customers and the partners serving them, to integrate Linux
servers into Windows environments.

Companies and consultants providing software development services to businesses.

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("Venture Tech"). Venture Tech now
owns approximately 26% of the Company 's outstanding common stock. With extensive expertise
in industry-specific enterprise solutions, Intelligroup has earned a
reputation for consistently exceeding client expectations. The solution
includes WebSphere Application Server Community Edition, (WAS CE), based on
the open source Apache Geronimo web application server, DB2 Express-C and
IBM eServer xSeries, Blades or Storage.