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On January 16, 2007, David Dury, the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Phoenix Technologies Ltd., sent the following letter to Admiral Advisors, LLC:

 

PHOENIX TECHNOLOGIES LTD. LETTERHEAD

 

January 16, 2007

Admiral Advisors, LLC

Attn:  Jeffery C. Smith,

Executive Managing Director

666 Third Avenue, 26th Floor
New York, NY 10017

Ladies and Gentlemen:

We appreciate your interest and belief in the long-term prospects of Phoenix Technologies.  We recognize that you have invested substantial time over the past year evaluating our Company, including recently spending time with our new management team and conducting significant due diligence to gain a deep understanding of our business and future plans.  It is clear that, from this work, you see the long-term value of Phoenix Technologies and of the new strategic plan that our Board of Directors has approved and the new management team has begun to implement.

As you know from these prior meetings and due diligence sessions with you, in 2006 (and prior to your initial letter to the Company) our Board of Directors began to construct and implement a comprehensive long-term plan to generate increased stockholder value.  Specifically, our Board has (1) recruited a new CEO and a new executive team; (2) materially reduced the Company’s total cost structure by almost 40%; (3) retained professional financial advisors to assist it in assessing strategic alternatives and analyzing the Company’s long-term value; and (4) adopted a strategic plan that emphasizes the Company’s leadership position in the core system software business.  We continue to review, refine and execute our plan and are optimistic about our prospects.  Your offer indicates that you too see the strong potential for Phoenix Technologies, given its market position, prospects, strategic plan and management strength.

As you know, our Board of Directors met in December 2006 and specifically rejected your December proposal that indicated a purchase price range of $5.25 to $5.35 per share.  Since then we have reiterated to you on several occasions our Board’s confidence in the Company’s potential to yield significantly more value to stockholders than your proposed offers, including your revised offer of $5.30 per share made verbally last week and the $5.25 per share offer made today.  With Woody Hobbs, our new CEO, and his team leading the way, we believe our stockholders are poised to recognize the benefits of our strategic plan, and do not believe that our status as a public company will hinder our ability to fully deliver on that plan.

It is the fiduciary responsibility of our Board of Directors to ensure that all stockholders are able to fully participate in the value that you see in our Company, rather than delivering that value to any

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single stockholder or group.  We welcome the enthusiasm that you share for the true potential value of Phoenix, and seek to permit all stockholders to fully share in that value.

	Very truly yours,
	PHOENIX TECHNOLOGIES LTD.
	/s/ David Dury
	David Dury
	Chairman of the Board of Directors

 

 

 

In connection with its 2007 annual meeting of stockholders, Phoenix Technologies Ltd. has filed a preliminary proxy statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) and will file a notice of annual meeting and definitive proxy statement with the SEC. STOCKHOLDERS OF PHOENIX TECHNOLOGIES LTD. ARE URGED TO READ THE PRELIMINARY PROXY STATEMENT, THE NOTICE OF ANNUAL MEETING, THE DEFINITIVE PROXY STATEMENT AND ANY OTHER RELEVANT DOCUMENTS FILED WITH THE SEC WHEN THEY BECOME AVAILABLE, BECAUSE THEY WILL CONTAIN IMPORTANT INFORMATION. Investors and stockholders can obtain free copies of the preliminary proxy statement, the notice of annual meeting, the proxy statement and other documents when they become available, by contacting investor relations at [email protected], or by mail to Phoenix Corporation Investor Relations, c/o Sapphire Investor Relations LLC, 150 Broadway, Suite 808, New York, NY 10038, or by telephone at 1-212-766-1800. In addition, documents filed with the SEC by Phoenix Technologies Ltd. are available free of charge at the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov.

Phoenix Technologies Ltd. and its directors and certain of its employees may be deemed to be participants in the solicitation of proxies from the stockholders of Phoenix Technologies Ltd. in connection with its 2007 annual meeting of stockholders. Information regarding the special interests of these directors and employees in the proposed election of directors is included in Phoenix Technologies Ltd.’s preliminary proxy statement for its 2006 annual meeting, as it may be amended, which is available free of charge at the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov and from investor relations at Phoenix Technologies Ltd. as described above.

 

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