Dateline : February 15, 2008 Bangkok

CHEVAL STAFF SHOWS OFF IT CAPABILITIES IN OPENOFFICE AND GIMP CONTEST

Bangkok, February 15, 2008 - The winners of the Cheval Open Office and Gimp Competition were recently announced with cash prizes and certificates awarded by Khun Apichart Sajchawong, Cheval's Group Managing Director at respective Cheval facilities participating in the program.

The contest resulted in some superior and innovative work. "Some of the projects submitted show just how advanced and flexible OpenOffice.org's Calc and Writer format is as both a Word and Spreadsheet processor. The winning templates and many others break a myth that OpenOffice cannot do advanced editing functions like Microsoft Word or Microsoft Excel. It is obvious that OpenOffice has come of age and is more than just a free alternative to MS Office but is an extremely worthy competitor" said Mr Yuthasak Ariyakulnimit, Acting Manager, RD&D of Cheval Group.

Winners for Open Office Calc/Write and Open Source Gimp:

One of the prizes went to the customer service template for OpenOffice Calc designed by Ms. Lada Noichoosakul - for the overall detail, comprehensiveness, complexity, presentation, and use of different elements and functions. The entry, which included graphical and calculation elements plus hyperlink organization, also added mail function, was exceptional. The implementation and potential use of Ms. Lada's template was excellent. Another prize was won by Ms. Thanyaporn Rattano's for her collage of HM the King made advanced use of Open Source Gimp in developing the poster.

Cheval ran this competition in conjunction with OpenSource2Day magazine and has committed to a second competition in early 2008. "We want to keep adding popularity to OpenOffice and the open source community. Cheval is committed to the use of OpenOffice and open source projects". said Khun Yuthasak. The templates of the projects will soon posted on the chevalgrp.com website.