Metropolis PRESS RELEASE Metropolis COMPLETES Call Accounting Roll Out for 300 LA QUINTA INNS. SAN DIEGO, California - June 1, 2001 -- Metropolis, leading provider of call accounting to the hospitality industry, has announced the completion of 300 InnCharge Call Accounting installations for La Quinta properties nationwide. InnCharge is licensed to InnOvation Voice Technologies (Cross Plains, WI) and is a private-labeled version of ProfitWatch Hotel Call Accounting. Dallas-based La Quinta Inns, Inc. selected both the InnLine2020 and InnCharge Call Accounting products for each of its properties, which will allow comprehensive voice messaging services for guests and hotel management. InnCharge Call Accounting is a robust and feature-rich call accounting system designed by Metropolis to co-reside on Innovation Voice Technologies’ Innline2020 voice mail platform. Metropolis has been providing call accounting to Innovation Voice Technologies since April 2000. With more than 230 Inns and 70 Inn & Suites located in 28 states coast-to-coast, La Quinta is a leading company-owned and operated brand in the mid-priced hotel segment and is based in Dallas, Texas. La Quintaâ is the lodging division of The Meditrust Companies (NYSE: MT), a real estate investment trust. For more information about La Quinta, please visit its web site at www.laquinta.com. Other news about The Meditrust Companies is available at www.reit.com. Metropolis is a progressive software company that has been a provider of call accounting software for both the hospitality industry and general businesses since 1993. Headquartered in San Diego, California, Metropolis specializes in the hospitality industry and markets its own call accounting products, ProfitWatch for Hotels and OfficeWatch for Businesses, both domestically and internationally through direct and indirect sales with select OEM agreements. |