Montreal, Canada ( April 17, 2000) - Gage Applied Sciences Inc., the leading manufacturer of Advanced Instruments based on the PC platform, today announces the joining of forces with Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton, Oregon. Gage Applied Sciences, now a wholly owned subsidiary of Tektronix, will operate under the name Gage Applied, Inc.

A part of Gage Applied Sciences’ strategy has been to identify partnerships that will enable our business to reach its maximum potential. Over the past 13 years, Gage has become the leader in advanced instruments on the PC platform providing data acquisition and instrumentation products which are world renowned for high speed, high resolution, high channel count, deep acquisition memory and sophisticated software. Gage has also been recognized for its own growth, four-years running, by Profit Magazine.

Aligning Gage to Tektronix’s Instrumentation business brings together over 60 years of experience in instrumentation and will allow Gage to provide world-class technology solutions for our customers. Gage and Tektronix’ combined engineering teams will apply their energies into innovative technology and product development, to provide a broader family of product solutions to meet a wider range of applications.

Muneeb Khalid, president of Gage Applied Sciences states: "Tektronix’s entry into card-based instrumentation will advance the transformation of the PC into a platform for measurement solutions. It will be our goal to combine Tektronix’ award-winning technology with Gage’s engineering expertise, customer-oriented sales and service, and aggressive marketing and promotion, to provide customers with the best solutions at the best prices."

This acquisition will allow Tektronix to expand their product portfolio by entering into the high performance, PC card-based instrumentation market. Tektronix will leverage its award-winning technology with Gage’s expertise in high-end, PC based applications to meet growing customer demands for flexible PC-based measurement solutions.

"Technology development in the Internet-focused computer and telecommunications industries – the market space we call The Zone – is changing our customers’ design and manufacturing environments, and creating new expectations for test instrumentation. This acquisition provides our customers with integrated, high-performance, PC-card based test and measurement solutions that meet their needs for easy to use, flexible products," said Rick Wills, Tektronix president and CEO. "Gage’s reputation for high-performance products, combined with Tektronix’ leadership in advanced test and measurement technologies, will enable us to provide solutions to our customers that are consistent with their future digital design requirements."

With its head office in Montreal, Canada, the Gage subsidiary will be the exclusive point of contact for all sales, marketing, support and service for all Gage’s existing products as well as new product introductions. The company will continue to be run by the same management team with Muneeb Khalid serving as the General Manager.

Gage will continue to sell and support its current family of CompuScope and CompuGen products including analog input cards, analog output cards, digital input cards, digital output cards, extensive family of sophisticated software products as well as complete measurement systems catering to customer application requirements.

• CompuScope 82G
  The world’s fastest A/D and Scope Card for PCI Bus with sampling rates of 2 GS/s
  
  
• CompuScope PCI Scope Cards with 2 Gigabyte On-Board Acquisition Memory
  8, 12 and 16 Bit A/D and Scope cards with up to 2 billion samples of on-board acquisition memory at sample rates up to 500 MS/s.
  
  
• CompuScope 1602
  World’s fastest 16 Bit A/D and Scope card for PCI Bus at sampling rates of 2.5 MS/s
  
  
• CompuScope 3200
  Ultra-fast 32 bit, 100 MHz digital input card
  
  
• GageScope Software
  World’s most powerful pc oscilloscope software for Windows. Featuring powerful plug-ins for FFT, Averaging, AutoSave, Waveform Parameters and Extended Math

Gage’s top priority will be to provide the highest level of service and support which customers have become accustomed to. Gage’s sales channels and application engineers look forward to continuing to work closely with customers to solve their application problems with an expanded portfolio of product solutions.

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For further information, contact Nicole Faubert at +1-514-633-7007, extension 3034, or via e-mail at: marketing @ gage-applied.

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