Corel and GraphOn Form Strategic Alliance
OTTAWA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 5, 1998--Corel (NASDAQ:COSFF - news; TSE:COS. - news)
Corel's jBridge(TM) and GraphOn GO-Between(TM) combine to
deliver mission critical UNIX/X applications to jBridge users
without PC X servers
Corel Corporation and GraphOn Corporation today announced they have forged a strategic alliance that will offer Corel's
jBridge(TM) customers UNIX server access through GraphOn's GO-Between. Currently, jBridge lets users run 32-bit
Windows(R) applications from a variety of client platforms. With the addition of GraphOn's GO-Between(TM), Corel jBridge
users will be able to access any UNIX/X application from their Corel jBridge desktop, with no additional X server software
installation, without requiring multiple desktop clients, and with greatly reduced network load.
jBridge is a cost-effective, scalable enterprise solution for delivering 32-bit Windows applications from a Windows NT(R)
server to multi-platform clients across networks or through remote access. Since most of an application is housed on a server
and not on each individual desktop, cost of ownership, maintenance and upgrading is greatly reduced from current standards.
GO-Between installs a Universal X Server on the UNIX host and a sub-300kb thin client add-on to jBridge. Users can access
their UNIX/X applications through jBridge as though they were resident on their desktops. With GO-Between, no code needs
to be installed in the desktop devices, while the UNIX application operates in its optimum native mode on the UNIX host.
Processing and communications load on the jBridge server is minimized, and scalability enhanced, due to the very thin
GO-Between client, and GraphOn's highly efficient, thin wire RapidX protocol.
GraphOn's and Corel's thin client solutions lower the total cost of ownership (TCO) of distributed PCs by enabling Windows
and UNIX applications to be deployed and managed from a central Windows NT server. This reduces the overhead and labor
costs associated with installing, configuring, and updating each PC to access these applications.
''This is an extremely exciting opportunity for us and our customers,'' said Dr. Michael Cowpland, president and chief
executive officer of Corel Corporation. ''Our advances to the thin client computing style are helping to forge new industry
standards and the addition of GraphOn's state-of-the-art technology will help give us one of the best, low cost solutions on the
market today.''
''We're excited to be partnering with Corel to bring a complete thin client solution to the market,'' said Walt Keller, president
and CEO of GraphOn Corporation. ''With Corel's jBridge and GraphOn's GO-Between, we deliver the best of both worlds.
Now IT managers can deploy both UNIX and Windows-based applications to every desktop in their organization with just the
touch of a button, and application management is simple. We believe this partnership will offer a distinct advantage to users,
both in simplicity and flexibility.''
Corel and GraphOn intend to explore other avenues of collaboration to further develop the alliance between the two companies
and to deliver innovative solutions to their customers. jBridge is scheduled to be widely available by early 1999.
Corel Corporation
Corel Corporation is an internationally recognized developer of award-winning graphics and business productivity applications.
Development of market-leading products such as the CorelDRAW(TM) line of graphics applications and the Corel(R)
WordPerfect(R) Suite of business tools is continually evolving to meet the demands of the corporate, retail and academic
markets. Committed to value, compatibility, choice and open standards, Corel develops products for the Windows(R),
Macintosh(R), UNIX, Linux(R) and Java(TM) platforms. Corel's common stock trades on The NASDAQ Stock Market(SM)
under the symbol COSFF and on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbol COS. For more information visit Corel's
Web site at www.corel.com/jbridge.
GraphOn Corporation
GraphOn develops, markets, and supports powerful software to speed and simplify network computing and enable efficient
thin client applications. Its products include GO-Global, the world's first thin client X server for PCs running Microsoft
Windows, GO-Joe, the world's first thin client Java X server, and GO-Between, the world's first thin client X server for
multi-user NT (such as Microsoft(R) Terminal Server, Corel jBridge, Citrix WinFrame, and New Moon LiftOff). GraphOn has
strategic relationships with major UNIX system vendors, network computer and terminal vendors, system integrators, and
software companies. GraphOn's customers are primarily Fortune 1000 corporations. GraphOn is headquartered in Campbell,
California. Find more data on GraphOn at graphon.com.
Corel, WordPerfect, CorelDRAW, and the Go Further logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Corel Corporation or
Corel Corporation Limited. GraphOn, GO-Joe, GO-Global, GO-Between, GlobalHost, Universal X Server, RapidX and
ThinX are trademarks or registered trademarks of GraphOn Corp. in the USA and other countries. All other product and
company names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies or individuals.
Contact:
Pat Meier Associates P.R.
Pat Meier, 415/392-4200
E-Mail: patmeier@patmeier.com
or
Corel Corporation
Nicole Sanford (Canada), 613/728-0826 ext. 5046
E-Mail: nicoles@corel.ca
Website: www.corel.com
or
Corel Corporation
Susan Gauthier (US), 613/728-0826 ext. 1461
E-Mail: susang@corel.ca |
