Nortel Networks Licenses Tarantella Web-Enabling Software
PR Newswire
Jun 20 2000 11:30AM ET
Tarantella Software to Be Integrated into Nortel Networks New Preside
Managed Application Services Platform
SANTA CRUZ, Calif., June 20 /PRNewswire/ -- The Tarantella Division, an independent business unit of The Santa Cruz Operation, Inc. (Nasdaq: SCOC) and Nortel Networks* today announced they have entered into a strategic alliance, allowing Nortel Networks to license Tarantella web-enabling software. Nortel Networks will include the Tarantella software as an integrated technology element of its new application service management, integration and delivery solution -- Preside* Managed Application Services Platform.
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The companies will work together to promote Tarantella as a key element of Nortel Networks' Preside Managed Application Services Platform, allowing Application Service Providers (ASPs) to quickly web-enable applications for eBusiness.
"Nortel Networks is pleased to enter this relationship with the Tarantella Division and offer the Tarantella product capabilities to its global ASP customer base," said Rich Caruso, president, Application Service Provider Segment, Nortel Networks. "Tarantella allows us to provide a key element required for the ASP market; the ability to adapt legacy and other non-web-based applications to run in a hosted environment. The Preside Managed Application Services Platform, combined with Tarantella technology, will allow ASPs to offer a rich portfolio of applications and position the ASPs for success in this emerging marketplace."
"This is an important alliance for Tarantella," said Mike Orr, President of the Tarantella Division. "The ASP movement started with productivity tools, and is now moving into traditional, UNIX system-based applications such as ERP and CRM. Nortel Networks' new application service management solution will integrate Tarantella software, so that ASPs can quickly web-enable and deploy these powerful business applications, regardless of whether they are running on mainframes, Windows or UNIX systems."
Tarantella software instantly web-enables applications for access by users anywhere, allowing administrators to quickly deliver any application to any client, without installation on the client device. Tarantella software utilizes an innovative Adaptive Internet Protocol (AIP) to provide optimal network performance, even over low-bandwidth connections.
About Tarantella
The Tarantella Division is an independent business unit of The Santa Cruz Operation, Inc., which provides enabling technologies connecting clients, server-based applications, and networks. The Tarantella product line includes Tarantella Enterprise II for large companies and organizations, Tarantella Express for workgroup and departmental environments, and Tarantella ASP Edition for Application Service Providers. Tarantella products provide access to Windows, mainframe, Linux and UNIX applications, are available today for all popular RISC and Intel processor-based UNIX servers, and will be available this quarter on selected Linux servers. For more information, see www.tarantella.com.
SCO, The Santa Cruz Operation, the SCO logo, Tarantella, Express, the Tarantella Logo and UnixWare are trademarks or registered trademarks of The Santa Cruz Operation, Inc. in the USA and other countries. UNIX is a registered trademark of The Open Group in the US and other countries. All other brand or product names are or may be trademarks of, and are used to identify products or services of, their respective owners. |
