PHOENIX, Oct. 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- iLinc Communications, Inc. , developers of Web conferencing software and audio conferencing solutions announced today that White Hat Management made its fifth purchase of iLinc virtual classroom software, known as LearnLinc. White Hat Management is a long time customer that made its first purchase in September of 2003, with each purchase exceeding $50,000. They use LearnLinc, part of the iLinc Web conferencing suite, to teach students as young as kindergarten age in concert with White Hat Management's Distance and Electronic Learning Academy (DELA). The program helps more than 4,000 students throughout Ohio, Pennsylvania and Colorado achieve academic success in the comfort and safety of their own homes.

"iLinc continues to provide improvements to their software that we find valuable and our students find easy to use," noted Jody Anderson, Chief Information Officer of White Hat Management. "We appreciate the return on investment that is provided by iLinc's software purchase license program, which is why we keep coming back for more," added Mr. Anderson.

"While we enjoy liberating customers from our competitors, we place great value on repeat purchases by existing customers. We remain one of the only enterprise-class providers that offers the software purchase license model to our customers," commented James M. Powers, Jr., President and Chief Executive Officer of iLinc. "We find that our software purchase model provides an unmatched return on investment, in comparison to the more expensive annual rental model. In addition to a great ROI, the software purchase model provides a deeper level of customer retention, proven by White Hat and many others," continued Dr. Powers. "More and more of our purchase model customers are taking advantage of our hosting program. By purchasing software but then letting iLinc host it, our customers reap the benefits of both the ownership model and the so called software-as-a-service (SAAS) model. Just like with the SAAS model, iLinc's customers are operational in minutes, do not purchase hardware, do not worry about bandwidth and do not consume their IT department's resources, simply the best of both worlds in our view," concluded Dr. Powers.

About iLinc Communications, Inc.

iLinc Communications, Inc. is a leading developer of Web conferencing software and audio (phone) conferencing services for highly secure and cost-effective collaborative meetings, presentations, and training sessions. The Company enables customers to purchase and own iLinc Web conferencing software, which can be installed inside of a customer's network or hosted by iLinc. Our products and services include the iLinc Suite of Web Conferencing software (MeetingLinc, LearnLinc, ConferenceLinc, and SupportLinc); Audio Conferencing Services; On-Demand Conferencing; and EventPlus, a service for professionally managed online and audio conferencing events. iLinc's products and services are used by organizations worldwide in sales, HR and training, marketing, and customer support. More information about the Phoenix-based company may be found on the Web at http://www.ilinc.com/.

iLinc, iLinc Communications, iLinc Suite, MeetingLinc, LearnLinc, ConferenceLinc, SupportLinc, and its logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of iLinc Communications, Inc. All other company names and products may be trademarks of their respective companies.

CONTACT: Mark R. Yeager, Vice President of Marketing, iLinc
Communications, Inc., +1-602-952-1200, pr@ilinc.com

Web site: http://www.ilinc.com/