Some news since no one seems to be here lately
chris
Tuesday April 15 4:02 PM EDT
Open Text to offer globally scalable Intranet corporate solutions on Microsoft
platform
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 15, 1997--
Industry-Leading Intranet Application to Address Corporate Market
Using Microsoft Products, Servers, Technology
Open Text Corp announced today at the AIIM show that Livelink, its industry-leading Intranet application suite, is adopting Microsoft
products, servers and architecture as a primary platform for the largest and most demanding corporate environments. This means
that enterprises of any size can benefit from Open Text Livelink's ability to manage and facilitate complex collaborative processes on
a global scale while leveraging the proven power of the Microsoft(r) BackOffice(tm) platform.
Livelink will fully support Microsoft Internet Information Server 3.0, Microsoft Windows NT(r), Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.0, SQL
Server(tm), and Microsoft BackOffice. The Microsoft platform will enable Livelink users to realize a significant decrease in the cost of
system deployment and management. In addition, Livelink will use ActiveX(tm) technology to provide even greater ease of use of
Livelink via Web browsers.
Livelink Intranet provides document management, visual workflow, project collaboration and searching, all fully accessible over
intranets via a Web browser. Livelink is currently being used in over 100 corporations, including many in the Fortune 500, to support
business-critical processes on a global scale.
"The high performance/price ratio that can be achieved using the Microsoft platform makes it ideal for the enterprise-wide
deployment of Livelink Intranet," said Abe Kleinfeld, Senior Vice President of Marketing and Corporate Development for Open Text.
"The market is acknowledging this in the most dramatic way: by adopting Microsoft solutions at an unprecedented pace. By
aggressively supporting the Microsoft platform, Open Text significantly expands the market for our innovative intranet application
software, and our users get a world-class environment for managing their world-wide business processes."
Rich Noffsinger, Industry Marketing Manager at Microsoft commented, "Open Text is a recognized leader in bringing to market
innovative, business-ready Intranet application software that enables corporations to 'put the Web to work' in ways that bring
immediate competitive advantage. Combining the Microsoft BackOffice framework with Livelink Intranet simplifies the deployment
and administration of enterprise-scale Intranet applications. We look forward to working with Open Text to bring global businesses
more functional and scaleable solutions."
Full support for Microsoft products and technology will begin immediately with support for NT Server, SQL Server, and BackOffice.
Open Text Corporation (www.opentext.com ) - recently recognized by International Data Corp. as the market leading supplier of
Web-enabled document management systems - creates and markets intranet application software, tools and services that enable
organizations to leverage the global reach and openness of Internet technologies within a powerful, collaborative environment for
communicating, managing and working together. Open Text's solutions are used by Global 2000 companies to find and manage
information and documents, empower teams and drive critical business processes. Open Text: "Putting the Web to work."
This news release may contain forward-looking statements relating to the future performance of Open Text Corporation.
Forward-looking statements, specifically those concerning future performance, are subject to certain risks and uncertainties, and
actual results may differ materially. These risks and uncertainties are detailed from time to time in the company's filings with the
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), including the final prospectus for the company's initial public offering of common stock
in January 1996, and Form 10-Q for the quarter ended December 30, 1996. |
