Berkeley Software Design Inc. and The ADD2 Alliance Ink Sales/Marketing Pact; BSD/OS Now Available To UNIX VARs and Integrators.SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 3, 1994--Berkeley Software Design Inc. (BSDI BSDI - Berkeley Software Design, Inc. ) and The ADD2 Alliance Thursday announced the signing of a sales and marketing agreement in which ADD2 will provide sales representation for the BSDI Operating System, Internetworking, and Internet software in the UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). VAR and integrator channels. BSDI is the commercial supplier of the BSD (Berkeley Software Distribution) The software distribution facility of the Computer Systems Research Group (CSRG) of the University of California at Berkeley. Operating System originally developed at the University of California The University of California has a combined student body of more than 191,000 students, over 1,340,000 living alumni, and a combined systemwide and campus endowment of just over $7.3 billion (8th largest in the United States). , and The ADD2 Alliance is a sales representation organization focused on the UNIX and open systems marketplace. ADD2 will apply its extensive experience in UNIX computing systems on BSDI's behalf by focusing its nationwide sales and marketing efforts on meeting the needs of the VAR and systems integrator communities. With sales personnel located across the United States, ADD2 will strengthen BSDI's growing market presence by providing the added reach required to address the growing demand for the BSD/OS operating system as the preferred alternative for advanced Intel-based multiuser systems, superservers, Internet gateways, WAN communications, development systems, and embedded systems. "At BSDI, we intend to serve the high demand for BSD/OS by working with the best and brightest reseller organizations," said Gary J. Johnson, BSDI's vice president of sales and marketing. "By partnering with ADD2, we can reach UNIX VARs and integrators quickly and also achieve our goal of quality channel representation." "BSD operating system and networking technologies are at the heart of the UNIX operating systems from every major supplier, including 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) , Sun, DEC, HP, and Novell," said Don Witt, founding partner and president of The ADD2 Alliance. "Through our relationship with BSDI, we look forward to spearheading the delivery of BSDI's aggressively priced, high-quality, and well-supported products." About the ADD2 Alliance The ADD2 Alliance is dedicated to providing sales, marketing, and account management services to emerging high-technology, value-added growth companies whose products address the fast-growing UNIX marketplace. ADD2's alliance with Berkeley Software Design Berkeley Software Design Inc. was a corporation which developed, sold licences to, and supported BSD/OS (previously known as BSD/386), a commercial and partially proprietary variant of the BSD Unix operating system for PC compatible computer systems. Inc. continues ADD2's tradition of building partnerships that enable the UNIX channel to add the greatest value to advanced multiuser, networked, and Internet solutions. About Berkeley Software Design Inc. BSDI is the commercial supplier of the state-of-the-art operating systems and networking originally developed at the Computer Systems Research Group (CSRG CSRG Computing Systems Resource Group (Berkeley) CSRG Combat Support Requirement Guidance (US DoD) CSRG Country Reconstruction and Stabilization Group CSRG Civil Support Readiness Group ) 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 . Leading computer scientists from the University of California's CSRG founded Berkeley Software Design Inc. (BSDI) in 1991 to unleash the full commercial potential of BSD Operating Systems There are a number of Unix-like operating systems under active development, descended from the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) series of UNIX variants. Currently, there are four major BSD operating systems, and an increasing number of other OSs derived from these, that add or remove , Networking, and Internet technologies. BSDI's BSD/OS is especially well suited for advanced multiuser systems, superservers, Internet gateways, WAN communications, development systems, and embedded systems. For more information, contact BSDI at 800/800-4273 or, via E-mail at info@bsdi.com. In Europe, contact BSD International at +44 227 781675, or via E-mail at bsdi@hillside.co.uk. CONTACT: Zaballos & Associates
Zee Zaballos, 408/425-1581
The ADD2 Alliance
Donald A. Witt, 415/694-4949
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