BSDI Targets Emerging Market for Internet/Intranet Appliances; BSDI's Randall Brem to Spearhead Embedded Systems Strategy.COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 30, 1996--Berkeley Software Design, Inc. (BSDI BSDI - Berkeley Software Design, Inc. ) announced today the appointment of Randall Brem as Vice President of Embedded Technology Sales. Under Brem, BSDI will target key growth opportunities for Internet/Intranet appliances, such as firewall and router systems, intelligent hubs and switches, telephony servers, and controller applications. "Over the past two years, BSDI has primarily focused on delivering high-performance server and gateway software for the Internet and Intranets," said Rob Kolstad, Ph.D., President of BSDI. "Now, as the Internet is changing the way computers are used as well as the demands placed on the networks that connect them, we're expanding our focus to target the market for Internet and Intranet appliances. Randall is the ideal executive to ensure that BSDI powers a new class of intelligent networked systems. He brings to BSDI his extensive experience in building profitable business units, including managing sales, marketing, systems engineering, product management, and OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and and channel relationships." Building on its success in supplying BSD/OS as a technology substrate for leading firewall products, BSDI's embedded systems strategy will focus on high-performance, mission-critical networked devices that require a robust, affordable networked operating system with "soft" real-time characteristics. BSDI will target OEMs interested in utilizing BSD/OS in networked appliances such as printers and telephony servers, high-bandwidth enterprise and public network switches and transmission equipment, intelligent Internet/Intranet application servers, and business support systems. BSDI's BSD/OS offers a variety of advantages as an embedded computing platform including its pre-emptive pre·emp·tive or pre-emp·tive adj. 1. Of, relating to, or characteristic of preemption. 2. Having or granted by the right of preemption. 3. a. kernel with deterministic response, compact footprint, flexible configuration, extremely stable TCP/IP TCP/IP in full Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol Standard Internet communications protocols that allow digital computers to communicate over long distances. networking, and BSDI's renowned technical support. "BSDI's BSD/OS is an industrial-strength embedded systems platform for a rapidly emerging class of intelligent networked appliances," said Brem. "Leaders in the internetworking industry are extremely interested in the opportunity to incorporate BSD/OS in new Internet/Intranet devices, such as firewalls and routers, hubs and switches, network printers, telephony and multimedia servers, and a variety of single-board computing systems." Brem, formerly the Western Area Vice President and General Manager for SCO (The SCO Group, Lindon, UT, www.sco.com) A leading vendor of Unix operating systems for the x86 platform. SCO had also offered Linux, but abandoned the line in the spring of 2003. The SCO Group is the combination of two companies: Utah-based Caldera, Inc. , will be responsible for BSDI's embedded systems offerings, including strategic planning, product development, strategic relationships, and team development. Brem said that BSDI will pursue an embedded systems strategy to innovate BSD/OS-based server and networking technology, develop and integrate BSDI technology in concert with OEM partners, and deliver BSD/OS as the underlying operating system for OEM-developed products. BSD/OS is currently available as an embedded operating system An operating system used in special-purpose applications (embedded systems). Embedded operating systems are typically very compact and often designed for real time operations. See embedded Linux, QNX, OS-9, Windows XP Embedded, Windows CE, VxWorks and Symbian OS. for Intel platforms, and implementations for SPARC (Scalable Performance ARChitecture) A family of RISC CPUs from Sun that runs mostly under Sun's Solaris, but also under Linux and BSD operating systems. After development began in the mid-1980s by David Patterson of the University of California at Berkeley and Bill and PowerPC platforms are in development. BSD/OS is used today as the underlying operating system for leading firewall products, satellite control systems, telephony systems, and kiosks. According to Brem, BSDI will deliver a BSD/OS Embedded Systems Development Kit in 2H96. Prior to joining BSDI, Brem served as Vice President & General Manager, Western Area for SCO and in other executive and sales management positions with SCO, IXI Visionware, a division of SCO, and Hewlett-Packard. He resides with his wife and two children in Gilroy, California. He holds a B.S. in Civil Engineering from California Polytechnic University. About Berkeley Software Design, Inc (company) Berkeley Software Design, Inc - (BSDI) A company that sells BSD/OS, a commercial version of Berkeley Standard Distribution Unix, networking, and Internet technologies originally developed by the Computer Systems Research Group (CSRG) at the University of California at . (BSDI) Headquartered in Colorado Springs, CO, BSDI is the commercial supplier of the high-performance BSD (Berkeley Software Distribution) The software distribution facility of the Computer Systems Research Group (CSRG) of the University of California at Berkeley. Internet and networking system software originally developed at the University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley is a public research university located in Berkeley, California, United States. Commonly referred to as UC Berkeley, Berkeley and Cal . BSDI software engines enable Internet experts worldwide to power the networked economy. BSDI products for PC platforms include the BSDI Internet Server, BSDI Internet Gateway for Novell Networks, and BSD/OS for embedded systems. BSDI customers include CompuServe, UUNET (UUNET Technologies, Inc., Fairfax, VA, www.uunet.net) Founded in 1987, UUNET was the first commercial Internet service provider. Originally offering e-mail and news, it became a full Internet service organization providing dial-up and leased line accounts as well as archive space for Technologies, Volvo, and leading Internet Service Providers Internet service provider (ISP) Company that provides Internet connections and services to individuals and organizations. For a monthly fee, ISPs provide computer users with a connection to their site (see data transmission), as well as a log-in name and password. worldwide. Contact BSDI at 719-593-9445, info@bsdi.com, or http://www.bsdi.com. CONTACT: BSDI Rob Kolstad, Ph.D., 719/593-9445 kolstad@bsdi.com or Zaballos & Associates Steven Beedle, 408/425-1581 steven@zna.com |
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