TenLinks.com Acquires The CAD Depot

Addition of premier CAD Shareware doubles site traffic, makes TenLinks.com the largest independent CAD site on the Internet

NOVATO, California, April 18, 2000 - TenLinks.com, the fastest growing technical directory on the Internet for engineers, CAD users and other technical professionals, today announced an agreement to acquire The CAD Depot (www.caddepot.com), one of the biggest and most popular CAD shareware sites on the Internet.

"TenLinks.com has worked with The CAD Depot since early 1999, back when it was known as CADsyst.com," said Roopinder Tara, president and CEO of TenLinks, Inc. "We have always felt that the two sites were totally symbiotic, serving two major needs of CAD users: TenLinks.com content supplied information whereas CAD Depot's content provided tools. With this acquisition, TenLinks.com can now work closer together to serve its users, who will immediately benefit by having better access to content previously split between both sites."

"The acquisition of The CAD Depot by TenLinks.com will provide a powerful arsenal of both technical information and utilities for CAD users," said David Whynot, founder of The CAD Depot. "I'm excited that the CAD Depot will be part of TenLinks.com's rapid growth. I have full confidence that this is a big win for all CAD users."

David will continue to manage The CAD Depot as an Editor of TenLinks.com.

In addition to serving end-users, TenLinks.com will now be able to provide a service to the community of vendors who need to reach the CAD audience. 

With this acquisition, TenLinks.com becomes the largest independent CAD site on the Internet. TenLinks.com recorded another record-breaking month in March with over 174,000 page views, an increase of over 35% over the previous month. The CAD Depot, also recorded it best month ever, with over 190,000 page views in March.

"Having over 360,000 page views a month allows us to address the volume needs of some of our larger advertisers," added Dale.

About TenLinks.com

Founded in February of 1999, TenLinks.com is based upon the simple principle that ten links selected by an expert are infinitely more valuable than ten thousand picked by a computer. Today's busy professionals do not have time to sort out the vast amount of information available on the Internet. TenLinks.com experts find, organize and rank Web sites, providing extreme depth in numerous subjects. Its Ultimate Directories contain hundreds of TopTen lists and thousands of links, easily navigated by subject matter. In addition, TenLinks.com supplies daily news headlines, a weekly email newsletter and much more. TenLinks.com's Ultimate CAD Directory has already earned several awards including the Top 1% Website and Netscape Editor's Choice on the basis of content and design. For further information on TenLinks.com, visit www.tenlinks.com.

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