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Monday March 22, 8:29 am Eastern Time
Company Press Release
ON Technology Forges Deal With MCI WorldCom to
Manage Tens of Thousands of PCs
Another leading Global Communications Service Provider Completes a
Substantial Purchase of ON Command CCM
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 22, 1999-- ON Technology Corporation (NASDAQ:ONTC - news)
today announced that MCI WorldCom has purchased ON Command CCM(TM), the industry's leading enterprise desktop
management system, to continuously manage and configure tens of thousands of PCs in multiple locations. ON Command
CCM meets the scalability and reliability requirements of large and growing distributed telecommunications companies as
demonstrated by the 100,000 managed desktops at Deutsche Telekom, another multi-million dollar ON Command CCM
installation. Using ON Command CCM, MCI WorldCom will have the ability to remotely deploy all tests, fixes and updates to
PCs throughout their entire lifecycle.
''We evaluated different products on the market, knowing that our rigorous enterprise demands would challenge many,'' said
Stephanie Abruscato, vice president of Service Direct at MCI WorldCom. ''ON Command CCM should enable us to
centrally deploy updates to our distributed enterprise of PCs without visiting every desktop.''
''ON Command CCM is a unique PC configuration management solution that can meet the scalability and reliability
requirements for global telecommunications companies like MCI WorldCom,'' said Roy Sanford, vice president marketing and
alliances for ON Technology. ''We are pleased to support MCI WorldCom as a key customer who will receive substantial
business value with the ON Command CCM solution.''
About ON Command CCM
ON Command CCM provides a unique pre-OS and network booting technology that allows operating systems and
applications to be instantaneously deployed to multiple client PCs simultaneously, from centralized Windows NT or Unix
servers, for immediate installation and configuration. ON Command CCM significantly reduces Total Cost of Ownership
(TCO) and enhances quality of service while providing continuous configuration capabilities to IT organizations. ON
Technology has formed business and technology alliances with major hardware manufacturers including Dell Computer
Corporation, 3Com Corporation (NASDAQ:COMS - news) and Sun Microsystems (NASDAQ:SUNW - news); core
technology suppliers including Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT - news) and Intel Corporation; and complementary enterprise
software vendor Tivoli Systems Inc., an IBM company.
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