Redwood City, Calif.-- June 22, 1999 -- Magically, Inc., and Sun Microsystems today announced that the two companies, along with other Internet service providers intend to form an alliance to offer K-12 schools access to Magically's virtual desktop, MagicalDesk (www.magicaldesk.com). As part of the SchoolTone Alliance Program, MagicalDesk, an Internet-based desktop service, will provide a web-based file management system, email, calendar, address book, to do list and bookmark program to the K-12 market. The MagicalDesk product will port to the Sun server platform and will be offered to Solaris users.

The SchoolTone Alliance Program is a joint marketing and sales effort created by Sun to offer high-quality portals that provide affordable and easy-to-access Internet content, communication tools, and applications targeting K-12 schools.

"The demand for low cost, simplified access to customized educational content and applications is moving the education industry towards a service provider model," said Robert Iskander, director of market development, Global Education and Research, Sun Microsystems. "Sun is enabling this model of outsourced, web-based services using proven technology, and leading a strong industry alliance program to ensure schools can take advantage of this model as quickly as possible."

"Our collaboration with Sun and the SchoolTone Alliance program are key to our move into the education market and our expansion into new platforms,"said Erwin Huang, chief executive officer of Magically, Inc. "MagicalDesk offers an integrated suite of tools that provides users with their own personal desktop, while offering the tools they need to collaborate with peers, coworkers and family members."

Using existing PCs, Macs, workstations, or thin client devices and standard Web browsers, students, teachers, administrators, and parents can go to a single Web site to access a virtual desktop customized for the school and personalized for the user. The virtual desktop will provide access to school-centric information such as content from curriculum, digital libraries, and online publications; communication tools such as e-mail, calendars, and workgroup collaboration; applications such as administration: financial, and student information systems; library automation: acquisition, cataloging, and circulation; and instructional management through scheduling, attendance, and assessment.

MagicalDesk Integrated Suite
The MagicalDesk suite of tools is integrated to allow users to convert emails into to-do items, calendar events, and Internet bookmarks. Students can call up the address book from the email module and send emails to multiple persons within the address book without having to remember the recipient's email address. Additionally, students and teachers will be able to transfer files to and from their MagicalFiles and computer desktop with ease.

Web-Based Collaboration
The calendar and file systems of MagicalDesk were created for collaboration. Students can elect to share files with fellow students, friends, teachers or parents, or elect to keep their files private. The MagicalDesk calendar lets teachers and students post appointments and to-do items for parents to review with their child.

Customization
The MagicalDesk.com layout and features are easily customizable. Students can personalize their desktop with their favorite Internet search engines and personal bookmarks.

Sun In Education
Sun is a leading provider of open network computing solutions to education institutions around the world, powering academic, research and high performance computing systems, campus administration, digital libraries and student instruction systems. In addition, Sun is committed to connecting the world's students to the Internet, beginning with primary and secondary schools and extending to all levels of higher education.For information about Sun in Education, please visit http://www.sun.com/edu.

For a demonstration of the portal computing concept and more information about The SchoolTone Alliance Program, please visit
http://www.schooltone.com.

About Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Since its inception in 1982, a singular vision, "The Network Is The Computer(TM)," has propelled Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: SUNW) to its position as a leading provider of high quality hardware, software and services for establishing enterprise-wide Intranets and expanding the power of the Internet. With more than $11 billion in annual revenues, Sun can be found in more than 150 countries and on the World Wide Web at http://www.sun.com.

About Magically, Inc.
Based in Woodside, Calif., Magically, Inc., is privately owned and operated. The company produces web-based technology for mobile professionals to enable them to work virtually anywhere. MagicalDesk.com, Magically's flagship product, is a virtual desktop offering universal access to file documents, email, calendar, Internet bookmarks, address book and a personal to-to list. The system offers integrated support for common file document formats that are secure, simple to customize and easy to access.



More information about Magically, Inc., MagicalDesk.com and iMagicalDesk.com is available at www.magically.com