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Company Press Release
TurboLinux and Enlighten Software Enter Strategic Alliance
Partnership Creates First Multi-platform Systems Management Solution for Linux
SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--August 9, 1999--TurboLinux, the leader in high-performance Linux, and Enlighten Software Solutions, Inc. (Nasdaq: SFTW - news), the leading provider of workgroup administration management solutions for the UNIX and Windows marketplaces, announced today they have entered into a strategic partnership to bundle the first enterprise-ready workgroup systems management software for Linux with the full line of TurboLinux products.
TurboLinux will be bundling a full multi-platform working version of EnlightenDSM administration and event management software on its entire product line for immediate, single-point management of all TurboLinux machines. In addition, the bundled product is immediately ready for customers to monitor and manage their existing heterogeneous Linux, UNIX and Windows environments from the same single console.
''The addition of EnlightenDSM to TurboLinux makes TurboLinux by far the most enterprise ready Linux on the market,'' said Cliff Miller, CEO of TurboLinux. ''Now our corporate customers can manage not only Linux but also their Unix and Windows machines all through our product. This is just the latest demonstration of our commitment to providing Linux server solutions to the enterprise.''
''TurboLinux ups the ante in the Linux marketplace by adding significantly more commercial value in a Linux platform,'' said David Parker, CEO of Enlighten Software. ''The TurboLinux partnership expands and compliments Enlighten's existing bundling arrangements with IBM, SGI and Access Graphics.''
According to International Data Corporation (IDC), there are more than 10 million Linux users worldwide. In 1998, the Linux market grew by 212 percent and nearly 18 percent of all server hardware licenses sold last year were Linux, according to IDC. Linux has proven to be particularly popular for Internet applications such as web servers. Today's announcement reinforces TurboLinux's commitment to be the technology and market leader worldwide of Linux solutions for the corporate server market.
About EnlightenDSM
EnlightenDSM provides a single, graphical interface to simultaneously manage mixed environments comprised of multiple UNIX and Windows machines including DEC, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, SCO, SGI, Sun Microsystems and Windows NT, '95 and '98. EnlightenDSM increases productivity for the systems administration team by simplifying complex, lengthy and repetitive tasks and consolidating system wide information. EnlightenDSM increases system availability through improved monitoring and control of resources and users.
About TurboLinux
TurboLinux, formerly Pacific HiTech, was founded in 1992 and has emerged as the world's fastest growing Linux company. Since 1998, TurboLinux has shipped more than two million units of Linux globally and is the Pacific Rim's dominant supplier with a market share of more than 50 percent, according to Business Computer News, a Japan-based market research company. TurboLinux offers the only version of Linux designed for the ''double byte'' character sets of the Japanese and Chinese alphabets as well as European languages. The company's high-performance consumer and business Linux products are designed for Intel workstation and server platforms and supported globally by IBM and Hewlett-Packard. Headquartered in San Francisco, TurboLinux has offices in Tokyo, Beijing and Sydney. The company's home page is located on the Internet at www.turbolinux.com or, in Japanese, at www.pht.co.jp.
About Enlighten
Enlighten Software Solutions, Inc., is a provider of UNIX, UNIX/NT and Windows 95 and Windows 98 environment workgroup administration and enterprise management solutions for open systems distributed computing environments. The company's award winning EnlightenDSM product provides cost-effective systems administration solutions for mixed vendor environments including DEC, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, SCO, SGI, Sun Microsystems, Windows NT, Windows 95 and Windows 98. The EnlightenDSM product provides comprehensive functionality with unprecedented ease of installation and use. The EnlightenDSM product suite conforms to industry-standard frameworks, yet allows seamless integration with other vendors' point solutions. For more information, please visit the company's web site located at enlightendsm.com.
The statements contained in this press release, other than historical information, include forward-looking statements and are based on current expectations and involve risks and uncertainties. Consequently, the company's actual results could differ materially from expectations expressed herein. The various factors that could cause the company's actual results to differ include, but are not limited to, failure of the company's products to gain customer acceptance, quarterly fluctuations in results, the management of growth, the ability to fund operations, the impact of competitive products and pricing, the rapid pace with which technology changes, and other risks detailed from time to time in the company's Securities and Exchange Commission filings. Actual results may differ materially from management expectations.
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