[0] Merlin Announces PerfectBACKUP+ Pre-load On Select IBM ThinkPads.Business Editors/High Tech Writers ALTAMONTE SPRINGS Al·ta·monte Springs A city of east-central Florida, a residential suburb of Orlando. Population: 40,900. , Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 22, 2000 Merlin Software Technologies International Inc. (OTCBB OTCBB See OTC Bulletin Board (OTCBB). : MLSW MLSW Ministry of Labour and Social Welfare ), a leading developer of Linux based software applications and utilities, today announced the pre-loading of PerfectBACKUP+ 6.2 on select models of the recently announced IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) (R) ThinkPad(R) A series and ThinkPad T series notebooks. IBM (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : IBM) recently announced that they will be offering the ThinkPad A20m and T20 models pre-configured with Caldera caldera: see crater. caldera Large, bowl-shaped volcanic depression that forms when the top of a volcanic cone collapses into the space left after magma is ejected during a violent volcanic eruption. The term is Spanish for “caldron. (Nasdaq: CALD CALD chronic active liver disease. ) OpenLinux eDesktop 2.4 high-performance client software optimized for the Internet. Caldera's OpenLinux eDesktop is the first pre-load of Linux on an IBM ThinkPad. The pre-load will help software developers and IT professionals dramatically reduce the time needed to setup and tune the systems. Merlin's PerfectBACKUP+, already bundled with the Caldera eDesktop 2.4 operating system operating system (OS) Software that controls the operation of a computer, directs the input and output of data, keeps track of files, and controls the processing of computer programs. , will be pre-installed onto the IBM ThinkPad. "We are very pleased to be a part of this alliance with IBM and Caldera," said Robert Heller, President of Merlin Software. "IBM and Caldera provide state-of-the-art hardware and operating systems and Merlin provides the highest quality applications for Linux. We see this as a big win for the mobile Linux user, Merlin, IBM and Caldera." Merlin Software continues to gain acceptance as a premium provider of Linux software for all Linux operating systems. PerfectBACKUP+ 6.2 has recently received positive reviews from publications as diverse as Federal Computer Week (http://www.fcw.com) and Linux Gamers Domain (http://www.gdlinux.com). Linux has achieved significance in the server marketplace, outselling Microsoft Windows NT, and currently represents approximately 30% of all Internet servers. This and other recent announcements by IBM provide a tremendous boost, pitting Linux head to head with the dominant Microsoft Windows operating system and the Apple Mac. Providing a viable alternative, this initiative should be a tremendous benefit to the consumer. PerfectBACKUP+ 6.2 is the most economical, powerful, network backup and crash recovery tool available. It provides backup scheduling and remote backup, recovery, data encryption, a robotics module, enhanced security and many other features with both a graphical and character interface. PerfectBACKUP+ is available for all major Linux distributions including Caldera OpenLinux 2.3, eDesktop 2.4, eServer 2.3 and 2.4, TurboLinux 4.0 and 6.0, versions 6.0 and 6.1 from RedHat (NASDAQ:RHAT RHAT Red Hat (stock symbol) RHAT Rainwater Harvesting Association of Tanzania RHAT Register Hba Attributes ), SuSE 6.0/1/2/3, Debian 2.0, Mandrake mandrake, plant of the family Solanaceae (nightshade family), the source of a narcotic much used during the Middle Ages as a pain-killer and perhaps the subject of more superstition than any other plant. 6.1, and the Linux 1.0 release from Corel (NASDAQ: CORL CORL Corel Corporation (stock symbol) CORL Coalition of Reef Lovers CORL capital outlay revenue limit CORL change-orientated reflective listening (psychotherapy) CORL Central Ontario Ringette League ). Merlin Software Technologies Inc. (Merlin Softech), is a software publishing company that provides Linux, Unix, Windows and Mac users with unique Linux and Unix based software that dramatically improves a system's reliability and speed. Merlin Softech has offices in Altamonte Springs, Florida Altamonte Springs is a city in Seminole County, Florida, United States. A northern suburb of Orlando, Florida. The city's name is Spanish for "high hill." [1] The population was 41,200 at the 2000 census. According to the 2006 U.S. , Phoenix, Arizona and Burnaby, British Columbia “Burnaby” redirects here. For persons sharing this surname, see Burnaby (surname). Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada, is the city immediately east of Vancouver. . For more information, contact: Merlin Software Technologies Inc., 405 Douglas Avenue, Suite 1305, Altamonte Springs, Florida 32714 Toll Free: (877) 988-7227, Phone: (604) 320-7217 Fax: (604) 320-7277 Web site: http://www.merlinsoftech.com. Included in this press release are "forward-looking statements," including "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of Section 27A of the U.S. Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. Those forward-looking statements include statements about the anticipated sales, acceptance and success of Merlin's PerfectBACKUP+ and other LINUX software programs and the continued acceptance and use of the LINUX as an operating systems for computers. Those forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties and accordingly, the Company's actual results could differ materially from those discussed in the forward-looking statements found in this document. Factors, risks and uncertainties that could cause or contribute to such differences include those specific factors, risks and uncertainties discussed below and those which are specifically discussed in the Company's Form 10-KSB for the period ended December 31, 1999. The cautionary statements made in this document should be read as being applicable to all related forward-looking statements wherever they appear in this document. The factors, risks and uncertainties include: the failure of the products described above to operate as designed due to incompatibility with some platforms, operating systems or other inherent defects; continued customer acceptance of the Linux operating system; continued customer acceptance of Merlin's products described above; Merlin's reliance on developers in the open source community; new and changing technologies and customer acceptance of those technologies; Merlin's ability to compete effectively with other companies; failure of Merlin's products or the Linux operating system to achieve the broad recognition necessary to succeed; claims of infringement of third-party intellectual property rights; and disruption in Merlin's distribution sales channels. Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds. |
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