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Centrinity among Technology Leaders at the Home of the Future Symposium
MARKHAM, ON - June 1, 2000 -- Centrinity Inc. (CDNX: CTI), a world leading software company delivering unified messaging and collaborative groupware technologies, has been chosen as one of a select group of North America's most imaginative technology companies gathering in San Francisco on June 2, 2000 to create and preview the digital home of 2025.
Sponsored by The Abernathy Group, LLC of San Francisco, CA, "The Home of the Future" will examine the technology that is expected to transform homes over the next quarter century. The invitation-only event will bring together some of the investment world's top technology analysts with the creative and intellectual forces behind the latest wave of today's technological revolution. The conference will preview a wide range of devices, services, and business models on the cusp of commercialization in the fields of wireless broadband data, high definition interactive video, and navigation.
The technology companies selected for the conference include many of the names experts expect to be at the forefront of technological change in the near future, such as 724 Solutions, Access Edge, Adaptive Broadband, Aircept, BroadLogic, Centrinity, Collective Communications, Go America, Infowave, NextWeb, Planet Web, Ravisent, Research In Motion, ShareWave, SmartServe Online, and Terayon.
Headquartered in Markham, Ontario with operations in Canada, the United States, Ireland, England and Sweden, Centrinity has developed and is just introducing revolutionary unified messaging technology. Centrinity's new FirstClass UM enables consumers, businesses and educational institutions to seamlessly link together all corporate and personal email, voice mail and fax mail boxes and access this electronic information anywhere, any time using any electronic device.
The market for Centrinity's unified messaging technology includes telecommunication companies, Internet Service Providers and large enterprise users. International Data Corporation projects that unified messaging could be a US$1.4 billion market by 2003 with an expected annual compound rate of growth of 118% over the next three years. Centrinity is also a leader in providing groupware to educational institutions to enable them to create integrated, collaborative electronic communications.
Centrinity's President and Chief Executive Officer, Myles McGovern, said "We think unified messaging will be a key feature not only of the home of tomorrow, but of businesses everywhere, and in the not too distant future. We welcome this opportunity to unveil a technology that we think will change the way people communicate to such a prestigious gathering."
Albert Lin, Principal and Senior Portfolio Manager of The Abernathy Group, said "We have assembled an impressive roster of companies for The Abernathy Group's Home of the Future event. They are likely to be among the leading names in technology over the next 25 years. Centrinity's FirstClass Unified Messaging is a perfect example, and we're very pleased that they will contribute to the event's success."
About Centrinity Inc.
Serving over 6 million users in more than 8,000 organizations in 55 countries, Centrinity is a high growth software company with technological leadership in the burgeoning global market for unified messaging solutions and related network-based collaboration tools. The Company's products include FirstClass Intranet Server Gold, FirstClass Collaborative Classroom Gold and Zebu, which are widely used in commercial and education markets. Centrinity Inc. is listed, under the symbol "CTI", on the Canadian Venture Exchange (CDNX). Centrinity's corporate Website is located at www.centrinity.com.
About The Abernathy Group, LLC
Established in 1990 with offices in New York, Chicago and San Francisco, The Abernathy Group is an incentive-based investment management firm specializing in the Medical Technology and Information Technology sectors, with about US$300-million in institutional and individual assets under management. Investors with The Abernathy Group, a network of over 100 medical technology and IT professionals and institutions, are active participants in the investment process as much as in the resulting performance. The unique practice of partnering with the expertise of its investors for research, known as "Collaborative Investing", has provided The Abernathy Group with an unprecedented informational advantage. |
