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Technology Stocks : Hummingbird Comm. (HUMC) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: John Chatterton who wrote (1859)	8/13/1999 10:40:00 AM
From: John Chatterton	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2018

More strength on the connectivity front: Hummingbird Communications Ltd. August 12, 1999 Hummingbird Signs Co-Marketing and Strategic Development Alliance with Caldera TORONTO, Aug. 12 /CNW/ - Hummingbird Communications Ltd. (NASDAQ: ``HUMC' and TSE: ``HUM'), a world-leading enterprise software company, today announced it has entered into a co-marketing and strategic development alliance with Caldera Systems, Inc., a Linux for business technology leader in designing, developing and marketing Linux-based business solutions. The new relationship will give Caldera's Linux users easy access to all of Hummingbird's desktop client connectivity products including: Exceed; HostExplorer; NFS Maestro Server, NFS Maestro Client, NFS Maestro Gateway and NFS Maestro Solo, while enabling Hummingbird to enhance its presence in the Linux operating system market. Hummingbird and Caldera will initially participate in a number of key joint marketing activities aimed at promoting Caldera and Hummingbird's connectivity products as the preferred PC X, Terminal Emulation and NFS solutions. ``Going forward this partnership further extends and strengthens Hummingbird's Linux strategy as an increasing number of users desire connectivity to Linux-based applications and servers,' said Gary Tyreman, Senior Director of Connectivity Product Marketing. ``This relationship is especially important as Hummingbird expands its connectivity solutions to provide a unique differentiator in the growing Enterprise Information Portal marketplace. Adding to the uniqueness of Hummingbird connectivity products is the extended access to Linux-based applications and information.' ``Our strategic relationship with Hummingbird, the world leading enterprise connectivity provider, represents a broad commitment by both companies to make Caldera a success in the Linux market,' said Ransom Love, President and CEO of Caldera Systems. ``Hummingbird's overwhelming presence in the desktop-to-enterprise host market enables us to respond to customers with a need for Windows-based connectivity to Linux systems with a robust and reliable solution.' ``IDC expects shipments of Linux client and server operating environments to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of about 25% from 1999 through 2003,' said Dan Kusnetzky, International Data Corporation's program director operating environments and serverware services in Framingham, Mass. ``IDC is seeing Linux adopted for use supporting functional servers. This, of course, means that it must integrate well with the large installed base of Windows clients.'"